LinkedIn just sent around a letter to all their users announcing their new share button, and encouraging everyone to add it to their websites. So of course we immediately get an email from a client saying “I want one of those. Gimme gimme!” This client’s site was set up with the ShareDaddy ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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About a year ago, a discussion arose in the WordPress community about third-party sites that use the word "WordPress" in their domain name. We posted our opinion on this issue since WP Garage has been running (until yesterday) on a domain with the word WordPress in it. We put WordPress in our domain ...
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Where can you go if you have questions about developing and managing a WordPress site? Well, we all know about the WordPress Forums, which can be a useful resource for getting experts and WordPress staff to answer your questions.
However, not everybody is a fan of the forum format - including me. ...
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Recently, someone asked me how to set up a local Wamp server on their computer so they can test Wordpress sites locally before uploading and editing online. MakeUseOf nicely explained what a Wamp server is and how to set it up. I wanted to expand their explanation to include setting up Wordpress.
What is ...
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I recently had to move all my WordPress sites and blogs to a new server because Bluehost sucks. My sites were going down on a near-daily basis for way too long, and they couldn't care less. So I did what I really did not want to do, and moved six WordPress sites to a ...
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