Posts Tagged ‘WordPress’

Moving WordPress websites to a new server and domain

Moving a WordPress website from one server to another can be complicated, especially under a different domain. These steps and resources should help make things better.

Monday, October 3rd, 2011
 

9 reasons to switch from Drupal to WordPress

The webmaster of web100.com wrote about how his personal experience made him decide on using WordPress as his Content Management System over Drupal. Top benefits cited include: An overall easier experience, especially for non-developers. A more friendly, diverse community. A more cost effective solution to web publishing and content management. You can read the full [...]

Monday, September 26th, 2011
 

Custom Field Template manual and help guide

Custom fields allow users to save extra data in a page. With the use of get_the_meta() and pageTemplates.php, we can then echo that extra content however we please.
This awesome solution is made 10x better by the fabulous plugin: Custom Field Template.

Friday, September 23rd, 2011
 

Bundling Plugins with Themes

Auto install plugins on theme activation.
This code will help you save time when building WordPress websites. Full instructions on usage, courtesy of the WPML.

Thursday, February 10th, 2011
 

Template conditional display of custom Meta Fields in WP Page Edit

First of all, a huge Ola! to Steve Taylor’s WordPress Custom Fields plugin Steve created a plugin that gives developers the ability to customize the “meta fields” box in page/post edit. Trying to put pieces together from the information and links provided in the codex makes clear that this part of WordPress is simply under-developed. [...]

Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
 

Superscript special characters like REG with jQuery

HTML has blessed us with short-codes you can use to insert special characters into a page. For example to display a ® (registered trademark) sign, simple use the ® short-code. What if you want to make that same ® sign to be super-scripted, so that it appears slightly smaller and above all other text? HTML also [...]

Thursday, November 18th, 2010
 

WordPress 101 basic tutorial for beginners

Welcome to the Basic WordPress tutorial.The aim of this tutorial is to show you how simple it really is to use the WordPress administration panel as a your Content Management System.In fact WordPress is perhaps THE MOST SIMPLE tool you can use to add, delete or edit content on a website. Be it pages, blog [...]

Thursday, September 16th, 2010
 

Using the page hierarchy to customize different parts of a WordPress website.

In most complex websites that use WordPress as their Content Management System, custom development will require bringing changes to the code makeup of different sections of the website. This becomes more and more true as the amount of pages increases. WordPress pages lack categories & tags: Posts are entered into a database and need search-oriented [...]

Sunday, April 11th, 2010
 

Display blog RSS feed on Linkedin

To continue in suite of my previous article on automatically displaying your blog’s posts (the RSS feed) on a facebook page, let’s see how this can also be accomplished on Linkedin. Before I dive into the image-rich detailed description of the process, let’s take a few second to remember why and how we would do [...]

Saturday, March 27th, 2010