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Cool plugin: New York Times style “Next Post” slider for WordPress

Miriam Schwab | January 12, 2011 | 9 Comments

Who doesn't think that the slider thingy that appears at the end of New York Time's pages with links to other articles is awesome? I've been coveting something like that for our WordPress sites for a while, and now I've found it, in usual wondrous WordPress simplicity: ... View Post

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

How to remove the link to parent pages when using wp_list_pages in WordPress navigation

David Stein | July 8, 2010 | 19 Comments

Recently I was working on a client's WordPress website and he made an interesting request, that I am actually surprised we don't see more often. He wanted the top links on his navigation bar to not be live links, and only the sub-pages should actually link to pages on his site. In this case the ... View Post

WordPress turns 7. It was great then, it’s awesome now

Miriam Schwab | May 28, 2010 | 0 Comments

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 ... View Post

Ad Manager WordPress plugin OIO Publisher Review

Rebecca Markowitz | May 27, 2010 | 4 Comments

In love! In love with a WordPress plugin! No, they're not paying me to say that, although I do have a coupon you could use if you feel like getting the plugin: OIO Publisher(affiliate link). I've been searching for a no-frills, easy to use ad management solution for WordPress for ages, and never ... View Post

How to add styles and buttons to the WYSIWYG Visual Editor in WordPress

Rebecca Markowitz | May 16, 2010 | 7 Comments

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 ... 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

Automatic Plugin Upgrade broken after WordPress 2.9.2 and some fixes

Rebecca Markowitz | April 28, 2010 | 2 Comments

After manually upgrading one of our client's sites to WordPress 2.9.2. we noticed that the only thing that went awry was the automatic plugin upgrade. WP asked me for the FTP information, and then gave me this error message: Cannot find Content directory (WP-Content) The first solution I found suggested to make sure that all the necessary ... 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