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Archive for March, 2008

Challenge: how to display only authors who have written in a specific category?

Miriam Schwab | March 27, 2008 | 12 Comments

Hi all - I was wondering if one of you can help us find a solution to a feature we would like to add to a WordPress site: The site in question has multiple contributors. Most are dedicated to certain categories. We would like to automatically display on a category page only the authors who ... View Post

Matt presents WordPress 2.5 in screencast

Miriam Schwab | March 27, 2008 | 3 Comments

Matt has created a screencast that presents some of the new and cool features of WordPress 2.5. The screencast fills a gap that has existed until now with regards to people writing and talking about the new version using only screenshots and descriptions. Seeing the system live really ... View Post

Ryan at WordPress mentions Farsi and Hebrew developers for their work on WP admin

Miriam Schwab | March 24, 2008 | 1 Comment

Ryan on the WordPress development blog (which is running on Prologue, very nicely I might add) has basically congratulated the "Farsi and Hebrew translation folks" for their hard work making the WordPress admin look good in right-to-left languages. I'd like to take this opportunity ... View Post

Plugins and hacks for improving the WordPress TinyMCE editor

Miriam Schwab | March 24, 2008 | 16 Comments

The WordPress TinyMCE editor mercilessly strips tags at will. Some will tell you that in order to avoid this problem you should disable the visual editor, but this is not a realistic solution since a. Many people feel more comfortable using a visual editor and b. ... View Post

Amazing hack for fixing the code changing habits of the WordPress editor

Miriam Schwab | March 21, 2008 | 21 Comments

Update March 23, 2008: The code that I originally wrote below based on Roland O'Connor's post didn't work. I subsequently found this WordPress Forum topic, which had the correct code to replace, and I've corrected the post below. Also, I wrote a follow-up post to this one with more ... View Post

Publishing WordPress posts in two columns

| March 20, 2008 | 24 Comments

We're currently building a site on Adii's Premium Gazette WordPress theme (this is an affiliate link). In my opinion, it's an awesome theme particularly because of the design. However, we installed it on the client's server of choice, and the posts on the homepage just wouldn't update. We tested it out on different ... View Post

What we can look forward to in WordPress 2.5

| March 18, 2008 | 2 Comments

Normally I don't get excited about WordPress updates because they tend to be pretty incremental (and cause a lot of stress). WordPress upgrades usually add a few features and a lot of bug fixes, which is great but not very exciting. But ... View Post

Like Obama? Get your Probama WordPress Theme

Miriam Schwab | March 12, 2008 | 12 Comments

This has got to take the cake: now all those die-hard Obama supporters can get their very own, free, beautiful Probama WordPress theme, thanks to Darren Hoyt and his pals at Category 4.... View Post