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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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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We are constantly trying to find easier and better ways to create manageable blocks of content for clients.
Widgets
Widgets are only helpful up to a certain point since there isn't a great plugin for a WYSIWYG visual editor that I'm aware of. The
Rich Text Widget and
WYSIWYG Text Widget are buggy and ...
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In the previous post, we discussed how to
hack the search function in Wordpress to have an additional search form that would search subcategories. Now that you have 2 or more search forms on your site, you might need to customize the search results. Thanks to
this solution, I learned how to ...
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Recently, we had a client who wanted a special recipe search. There were 2 ways to extend the search functionality - manually or dynamically.
1. Search One or More Categories Manually
If we want to search
one category, we could have used this
solution which lets you manually add category numbers to the search function:
[Replace ...
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You can manage multiple sidebar widgets in WordPress. To do so, you go to the Widgets page in the Admin, and select the Sidebar you want to manage. If you have 1 widgetized sidebar, the name "Sidebar 1" is not a big deal for managing it. But what if you have 5 or ...
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Recently I posted about why I think
WordPress is a CMS. This led to a pretty interesting discussion in
the comments on the topic, ...
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Larry Dignan over at ZDNet writes about
the media's relationship with CMS systems, particularly his own past experiences with custom-built CMS systems. He says that "when it comes to ease of use, a blog platform beats or [sic] average CMS hands down." So he ...
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Sorry for the confusing title, but there is an issue that we face over and over when using
WordPress as a CMS, and have not been able to solve. When we are using WordPress as a CMS, our Blog page doesn't pick up the current_page_item class and ...
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You may want to display posts from a specific category on the homepage or other pages of your site. For example, you might want to have a box that displays the latest three posts from your News category, or have links to your latest podcasts....
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