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How to list subpages with a title and excerpt in WordPress

| April 12, 2012 | 0 Comments

We developed a site that has really rich subpages (child pages) but the parent page is mostly a blank placeholder that directs people to the subpages. Instead of merely leaving a blank parent page, we wanted to give a preview of the content on each of the subpages. I found the code for how

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Data portability and data serialization in WordPress

| April 10, 2012 | 26 Comments

Over at illuminea, we’ve been migrating WordPress sites for years. So we thought we’d seen it all when it came to WordPress migration. And yet, recently we encountered an issue that we had never dealt with before, that puts a snag in the ease with which you can move WordPress sites: data

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Publish RSS feeds on your WordPress site without plugins

| February 13, 2008 | 14 Comments
Darren Hoyt, that brilliant WordPress developer and designer, explains how you can publish RSS feed headlines on your WordPress blog with a built-in WordPress function instead of using a plugin. As Darren says, this code snippet is not intended for scrapers; it's for people who have ... View Post

Hell Yeah Dude’s list of ways to supplement your WordPress content

| January 10, 2008 | 0 Comments
Hell Yeah Dude has a great rundown of different types of content you can add to your WordPress blog, and plugins for doing so: flickr, Twitter, Pownce, Tumblr, de.licio.us and more. 12 automatic ways ... View Post

Surfing the blogosphere is just like, oh I don’t know, detecting contaminants in water

| October 30, 2007 | 0 Comments
Some crazy academics have written a very academic paper (PDF) on how you can use the same system to figure out where to put sensors in the water to detect contaminants, and make sure we catch all the good stories in the blogosphere. Oh goody! Basically, all you have ... View Post

New Answers.com WordPress plugin creates quick links to definitions

| October 12, 2007 | 3 Comments
Answers.com Answers.com is a free online service that provides definitions and encyclopedic-entries on millions of topics. (It is also an Israeli company - I had to add that :)). The company has now partnered with Automattic, the guys behind WordPress, with a new ... View Post

The secret to a successful blog: writing good content

| April 12, 2007 | 0 Comments
Ramit over at I Will Teach You To Be Rich reminds us that when all is said and done, a blog's success depends on the merit of its content, and not on the quality of its design, stats programs, or all the SEO stuff ... View Post