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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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The Problem:
Recently, one of our clients wanted to change the slug, or permalink, from "about-2", back to just plain ol' "about". I tried changing the slug from the "quick edit" mode. I tried to Edit the Permalink from the Post Page. No luck, it kept reverting back to about-2. After doing a few ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Recently, one site we were working on needed a sidebar that would show the 4 most recent posts on the site. But here’s the catch: they wanted only one post per author. And, each author had to have the role of “author” as opposed to contributor or admin.
The site in question is still in ...
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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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