Recently I was working on a client's WordPress website and he made an interesting request, that I am actually surprised we don't see more often. He wanted the top links on his navigation bar to not be live links, and only the sub-pages should actually link to pages on his site.
In this case the ...
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Our little baby is turning 7 – WordPress, my how you’ve grown! But the truth is, I remember when I first started using WordPress back in 2007, and it was pretty good then too. I think that shows how WordPress has strong foundations, even at the beginning.
When I first started ...
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In love! In love with a WordPress plugin! No, they're not paying me to say that, although I do have a coupon you could use if you feel like getting the plugin:
OIO Publisher(affiliate link).
I've been searching for a no-frills, easy to use ad management solution for WordPress for ages, and never ...
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The Visual Editor in WordPress is great for clients. It lets them feel comfortable adding content with Word-like buttons that they are familiar with.
But, what happens when they want more font styles?
Although you can find plugins that add Quicktags to the HTML view Editor, such as Oren Yomtov's
Post Editor Buttons Plugin, I ...
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I just published a Hebrew website with a
Hebrew installation of WordPress. I first built the site locally, and then moved the database over to the client's site. When I tried to log in, I got this beauty of an error "You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page" in Hebrew, ...
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After manually upgrading one of our client's sites to WordPress 2.9.2. we noticed that the only thing that went awry was the automatic plugin upgrade.
WP asked me for the FTP information, and then gave me this error message:
Cannot find Content directory (WP-Content)
The first solution I found suggested to make sure that all the necessary ...
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We recently launched a site called
theforgottenletters.org, an incredible project dedicated to translating the Holocaust-era letters of Ralph Schwab from German to English. While building the site, we needed to archive the letters based on the dates the letters were written, not when we publish them to the site.
First, I tried this ...
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Recently, I needed to list all subpages of a parent page. I also needed to display custom fields below each subpage. And, on top of that, the list needed to be 2 columns.
I found a
solution for simply listing the pages in 2 columns, but it did not suggest how to modify the ...
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While working on one of our sites, I noticed funny code starting to show up in the WYSIWYG editor area. I'm not sure if it actually messed anything up, but it was really annoying:
<input id="gwProxy" type="hidden" /> <input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden" />
I found one
article online that said it was an FCK / ...
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The Problem:
Recently, one of our clients wanted to change the slug, or permalink, from "about-2", back to just plain ol' "about". I tried changing the slug from the "quick edit" mode. I tried to Edit the Permalink from the Post Page. No luck, it kept reverting back to about-2. After doing a few ...
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