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Category: WordPress as CMS

Display posts from specific categories on a Page

| November 8, 2007 | 95 Comments
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.... View Post

Relooking at the Page Links To Plugin

| June 21, 2007 | 9 Comments
Since I discovered the Page Links To plugin, it's become one of the plugins that I use most on my sites, particularly those where I'm using WordPress to create a CMS. I've reviewed it already (see the review here), but it seems that ... View Post

Using different style sheets for different templates

| June 3, 2007 | 18 Comments
I'm creating a site where the pages are divided into two sections: Hebrew and English. I need the Hebrew pages to use a template that basically looks the same as the English pages, but everything is switched around to right-to-left. I created a copy of the style sheet and called it style-hebrew.css. In the copy, ... View Post

List only child Pages of a specific parent Page

| May 9, 2007 | 51 Comments
I am building a site for a client, and I want to list all the child Pages, which will be many, of one of their parent pages in the sidebar. To help you understand better, this client provides many services, so I wanted there to be a parent Page called "Services," and this parent ... View Post

Getting bored of how your dashboard looks? Try WordPress NiceAdmin

| April 12, 2007 | 2 Comments
We bloggers spend a lot of time in the admin section of our WordPress blogs. It can get kind of boring looking at the same blue chunky lettering and design after a while. I decided to install the WordPress NiceAdmin plugin to add some variety to the same 'ol same 'ol. It is so pretty! ... View Post

Restricting Pages to logged in users

| April 9, 2007 | 0 Comments
redwing studio has a detailed description how to set up a Page in your WordPress blog so that only logged in users can see the content. You can restrict access to a page by making it private, or by using a Role Manager plugin, but this method allows the following:
  • The Page
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Inserting editable text in the sidebar

| March 20, 2007 | 6 Comments
Update: since I wrote this post, I discovered some problems with this solution. I ended up using a different solution, which you can see in Inserting editable text in the sidebar - part II: Widgets. I created a site for a client based on ... View Post

Page Links To

| March 1, 2007 | 0 Comments
The Page Links To plugin allows WordPress Pages to link to any page you would like. I recently used it on a site where the top nav bar is comprised of pages, but two of the pages - the news and resources pages - needed to have dynamic content ... View Post

Upload+ to automatically change uploaded file names

| February 23, 2007 | 3 Comments
Update June 7, 2007: Pixline has released a new version of the Upload+ plugin. Their changelog says that they added more options. You can also now download the plugin from the WordPress.org plugin page. If you are building a site for clients based on WordPress, you want to make ... View Post

Dean’s FCKEditor for WordPress plugin

| February 22, 2007 | 0 Comments
From DEAN LEE:/DEV/BLOG: FCKEditor is a full feature web based WYSIWYG html editor,the best things is that:FCKeditor is compatible with most of the internet browsers which include: IE 5.5+ (Windows), Firefox 1.0+, Mozilla 1.3+ and Netscape 7,and claims to produce clean and valid XHTML 1.0 output. Dean’s ... View Post
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