wordpress tricks, hacks, and tips

Category: Tips

QuickTip: Show More Pages in your WordPress Dashboard

Rebecca Markowitz | May 12, 2011 | 3 Comments

I am totally in love with the Screen Options pull down tab in WordPress. I know it's been there for a few versions, but I never fully appreciated it until I started using the Show on Screen feature that lets you fill in how many pages you want to show in your list of ... View Post

The ultimate guide to embedding HTML and iframes in WordPress

Miriam Schwab | March 24, 2011 | 7 Comments

Embedding HTML and iframe content in the WordPress editor is annoying – the editor strips out elements so you end up with broken code, or no code at all. Right? Wrong (sort of)! For some reason, it seems that the vast majority of WordPress users are not aware that as of version 2.9 we ... View Post

How to exclude multiple categories from your WordPress feed

Miriam Schwab | January 23, 2011 | 3 Comments

I was searching desperately for a solution for creating a custom WordPress feed that excluded two categories that would be used to offer a unique Feedburner feed to readers. I found posts that explained how to exclude categories globally, but that wasn't relevant since these categories still needed to be available to readers ... View Post

How to install WordPress without a domain name

Miriam Schwab | January 16, 2011 | 41 Comments

This is one of those life-changing, super-awesome tips that I wish I had known about years ago. Note that this only works on Windows, and I've only tested it on Windows 7.

Here's the scenario: you've got a client who has a website up and running on their domain name, www.mysite.com. You are creating a

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How to stop WordPress from stripping HTML from embedded iframe

Miriam Schwab | September 19, 2010 | 10 Comments

Update: I found an even better way of embedding iframes and HTML in WordPress, so I recommend ignoring what I wrote here, and checking out The ultimate guide to embedding HTML and iframes in WordPress. It just became too annoying: every time we go back to edit a post that has some kind ... View Post

Hebrew Installation, UTF-8 and Sufficient Permission in WordPress

Rebecca Markowitz | May 2, 2010 | 4 Comments

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, ... View Post

How to create an archive based on custom fields, not publish date in WordPress

Rebecca Markowitz | April 12, 2010 | 2 Comments

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 ... View Post

How to avoid “gwProxy” or “jsproxy” code in WordPress

Rebecca Markowitz | March 21, 2010 | 1 Comment

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 / ... View Post

How to Override the Slug or Page Permalink in WordPress

Rebecca Markowitz | March 18, 2010 | 8 Comments

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 ... View Post