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 ...
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Recently, I needed to list all subpages of a parent page. I also needed to display custom fields below each subpage. And, on top of that, the list needed to be 2 columns.
I found a solution for simply listing the pages in 2 columns, but it did not suggest how to modify the ...
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In the previous post, we discussed how to hack the search function in Wordpress to have an additional search form that would search subcategories. Now that you have 2 or more search forms on your site, you might need to customize the search results. Thanks to this solution, I learned how to ...
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I wanted to create a simple directory of non-profit organizations. To do so, I wanted to use pages for the directory, rather than posts so that I could separate the static directory listings from the dynamic blog posts. I didn't want to have to exclude tons of categories from feedburner and the main ...
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This is really handy: the Drop Down Menu WordPress plugin creates a drop-down navigation scheme where sub-pages appear under their parent pages in the menu. All you have to do is upload, activate, and add one snippet of code to your template files. The menu can be ...
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Recently I wrote about a WordPress plugin that allows you to exclude certain pages from appearing in your list of Pages without coding your template files. The My Page Order WordPress plugin gives you additional Page flexibility by allowing you to manually order your Pages without coding.
Update Feb. ...
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The Page Link Manager WordPress plugin creates a place in your admin where you can select which Pages will appear in your list of pages, and which will be excluded. This means that your clients can easily do this themselves, and it saves you a bit of trouble too....
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Sorry for the confusing title, but there is an issue that we face over and over when using WordPress as a CMS, and have not been able to solve. When we are using WordPress as a CMS, our Blog page doesn't pick up the current_page_item class and ...
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To create a new Page template, add the following code to the top of the page:
<?php
/*
Template Name: Home
*/
?>
The Template Name can be changed, i.e. Home can be About Us, or anything else. When you create a Page in WordPress, on the right-hand side there is a drop down box for selecting a template. The ...
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