Data Serialization, WordPress, and my new best friend
Recently, Miriam wrote about Data Serialization and what a pain in the tuchus it can be to migrate a site that has serialized links in the database.
So, today, when I migrated one of our client's sites from our staging server to the live/production server, I was frustrated that some of the widgets
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We developed a site that has really rich subpages (child pages) but the parent page is mostly a blank placeholder that directs people to the subpages. Instead of merely leaving a blank parent page, we wanted to give a preview of the content on each of the subpages. I found the code for how
... View PostData portability and data serialization in WordPress
Over at illuminea, we’ve been migrating WordPress sites for years. So we thought we’d seen it all when it came to WordPress migration. And yet, recently we encountered an issue that we had never dealt with before, that puts a snag in the ease with which you can move WordPress sites: data
... View PostHow to localize a Hebrew website’s Dashboard with WordPress Multisite
Many of our clients request English and Hebrew websites and ever since WordPress 3.0 made WordPress Multisite a breeze to install, we've been using it so that clients can manage all their sites from one Dashboard.
Logically, our clients want the Hebrew website to have a Hebrew Dashboard. However, out of the box, WordPress Multisite defaults
... View PostHow to Re-enable and Allow Comments in Older Posts in WordPress
We had a client come to us and ask how to re-enable comments on older posts. I started searching around and found 2 ways of allowing comments on many posts at once.
1. Use the built-in WordPress Bulk Edit feature.This feature was introduced back in version 2.7 but only now did I fall in
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How to link author image to their previous posts in WordPress
It seemed so simple and straightforward to link an author's image to their page of previous posts like http://wpgarage.com/author/Rebecca/. But for some reason I couldn't find the solution easily with the default WordPress template tags. Template tags that I had used last time I needed this functionality were deprecated.
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Disclaimer popups before sending an email or submitting a comment using simple jQuery in WordPress
Several of our clients requested that we add popup disclaimers before someone sends an email to the site admin or before they submit a comment. Here's a screenshot of what we're going to do:
Case 1: Add a Contact Us link to the navigation menu that triggers a ... View Post