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WordPress as CMS: 4 content block plugins with WYSIWYG editors

Rebecca Markowitz | February 23, 2010 | 14 Comments

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 ... View Post

Add SWFir to WordPress for nice rounded corners, shadows and other effects

Rebecca Markowitz | February 14, 2010 | 0 Comments

While collaborating with our colleagues at Red Door on a project, we came across SWFir, an amazing way to add some nice subtle effects to WordPress site images. SWFir automatically adds a flash layer on top of images that can round the corners, add a shadow, rotate, or add a border. I ... View Post

Exclude Categories from Feed, Archives, Search, and Home page in WordPress

Rebecca Markowitz | January 14, 2010 | 3 Comments

We often find ourselves looking for the best and easiest way to exclude categories or pages from the navigation menu, the WordPress loop, the category list, the feed, the search, and/or the archive. It's so easy to forget one of these elements and accidentally let that category slip into the blogstream. We actually wrote ... View Post

Display sticky post and exclude it from recent posts list in WordPress

Rebecca Markowitz | January 11, 2010 | 6 Comments

We were working on a WordPress site that needed to display a sticky post at the top of the blog page with one style, and then below it a list of the most recent posts with a completely different style. I realize that you can just style the sticky post using the sticky-related classes provided ... View Post

My 2010 New Year resolution: to say thank you to WordPress

Miriam Schwab | January 4, 2010 | 3 Comments

Generally, the only thing a new Gregorian year (there are other calendars out there too, you know) means to me is that I must remember to write 2010 on checks. But since I’ve been reading so many New Year’s posts on other blogs, it got me thinking about what I have to say as ... View Post

WordPressGarage.com now on WPGarage.com, and how to move a domain with a 301 redirect on WordPress

Rebecca Markowitz | December 31, 2009 | 16 Comments

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 ... View Post

The importance of the wp_footer(); plugin API hook

Miriam Schwab | November 12, 2009 | 4 Comments

About a week ago I wrote a post about a new WordPress plugin released by Semantinet called Headup. When Semantinet first asked me to install the plugin, it actually didn’t work. They looked into it and realized that the reason for this is that WordPress Garage doesn’t have the wp_footer ... View Post

Headup Semantic WordPress plugin automatically adds rich content to your blog

Miriam Schwab | October 26, 2009 | 3 Comments

A new WordPress plugin called Headup was released about a week ago by SemantiNet, a startup dedicated to developing Semantic Web technologies and platforms. The plugin works on top of the company’s existing technology, and automatically adds rich content to terms that appear in your blog posts. I installed ... View Post

How to Change Permalink Structure in WordPress without Duplicate Content

Rebecca Markowitz | October 14, 2009 | 11 Comments

Recently we had a client who wanted to change their Permalink structure from Old Permalink structure: /%author%/%category%/%postname%/ to: New Permalink structure: /%author%/%category%/%postname%/%post_id%/ so that they would qualify for Google News. Apparently you need at least 3 digits in your URL in order to qualify for Google News. I wanted to simply change the Permalink structure by going to ... View Post