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How to share a draft with a private URL in WordPress

| May 30, 2011 | 5 Comments
It's been a while since I've been so excited about a plugin. Enough that it inspired me to write a post about it. I've always wanted to share drafts of posts with people before I publish them but didn't want to bother them with "can you log in, look at the post and let me ... View Post

Allow Editor access level to add users in WordPress

| May 29, 2011 | 1 Comment
Recently, a client asked us to allow editors to add users on their WordPress site. They wanted this feature so that the site managers wouldn't be tempted to click on any of the settings, and possibly mess something up. I know this is super specific but it did come up for us so maybe ... View Post

Why I don’t like WordPress child themes and frameworks. Don’t be angry.

| May 26, 2011 | 35 Comments
I know that child themes and frameworks are all the rage. Especially since the release of TwentyTen. It's hard to find even one negative post about child themes on the web. I do understand that there are advantages to working with child themes, and they are very tempting. But. Not tempting enough. ... View Post

How to add images and styles to the WordPress custom menu

| May 24, 2011 | 7 Comments
There are lots of good plugins out there for displaying social media profiles on your site, but what if you want to use your own icons? And you want your client to be able to easily manage the links to these social profiles? The solution is to create a custom menu in WordPress with ... View Post

QuickTip: Show More Pages in your WordPress Dashboard

| May 12, 2011 | 4 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 – part 2

| April 7, 2011 | 5 Comments
Recently, I wrote about how WordPress users can easily add media like YouTube videos to posts and pages by just inserting the URL of the page the media is on. But that functionality was limited to sites that are oEmbed providers. ... View Post

The ultimate guide to embedding HTML and iframes in WordPress

| March 24, 2011 | 9 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

Even More on 301 Redirects with WordPress, Primary Domains, Dummy Domains and Hostgator

| February 8, 2011 | 3 Comments
I wanted to redirect 2 domains. One of the domains, (let's call it olddomain.com), was listed as the primary domain with Hostgator.  The other domain, (let's call it otherolddomain.com), was in a subdirectory of the primary domain. I thought I could just reuse the oh-so-easy 301 redirect that worked when we moved WordPressGarage.com ... View Post

How to exclude multiple categories from your WordPress feed

| 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

| 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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