We're currently building a site on
Adii's Premium Gazette WordPress theme (this is an affiliate link). In my opinion, it's an awesome theme particularly because of the design. However, we installed it on the client's server of choice, and the posts on the homepage just wouldn't update. We tested it out on different ...
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Over the past few days, I have written two posts on two different WordPress self-hosted blogs that have disappeared when I pressed save. I couldn't retrieve them.
I wrote one of the posts straight in WordPress' text editor, and the other one I wrote in Windows Live Writer. You would think I could go back ...
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Some blogs have alternating background colors for their comments and posts, i.e. a green background for every even comment and post, and a grey background for every odd comment and post. How do they do that?
Alternating Comments Styles
To alternate comments, add the following code to your comments.php template file, under where it says <?php ...
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I am constantly finding links that I think are not worth a whole post, but I would like to mention here anyways. So I wanted to find a quick and easy way to display short links that would become part of the blog stream, without causing clutter.
I also wanted to do this in a ...
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You may encounter situations where you need to automatically display a thumbnail or image of some kind that will link to posts. Here's an example of this kind of situation: ...
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Here's a bit of code to put in your sidebar to display the most recent posts on your blog:
<?php $myposts = get_posts('numberposts=10&offset=1');
foreach($myposts as $post) :?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title();?></a></li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
You can set the number of recent posts to appear on the first line of code where it says numberposts=10 - change the 10 ...
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In Lorelle's latest blog challenge,
she asks us to describe our favorite WordPress tip. She says to think back to when we started experimenting with
WordPress, and try to remember what tips we found valuable.
I started ...
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Most WordPress users are familiar with the
WASABI Related Entries plugin. I've never used it because it involves messing around with the database tables. Instead, I have been using the
Simple Tagging feature of
displaying related posts based on tags used in ...
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If you insert an image in your post that is too wide for your blog layout, it will break the design. The
iMax width plugin sets a maximum width for photos. This is useful for the following reasons:
It won't allow you or other users to inadvertently break your ...
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cfTopper has the coolest design for post titles that I think I've ever seen. He has the post title with a reflection close underneath. Take a look:
I tried to get an idea of how he does it by using
Firefox Web Developer and ...
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Using PHP to alternate background colors for comments or posts in WordPress