Category Archive: Tutorial

Checking for A Specific Post Type in WordPress

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Conditional Tags are one of my all-time favorite tools to use when developing a WordPress theme.  It's an intelligent use of programming logic that allows even non-coders to grasp the basics and, in turn, create complex and functional WordPress themes.  With the advent of custom post types, a method was needed to check for the presence of a certain post type, and display the…

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Creating a Custom URL Shortener using Bit.ly

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If you've come to this site by way of Twitter or Facebook, you may have noticed that the short link for all of these posts isn't your typical URL.  I recently purchased snv.me to shorten all of the links to my blog posts and site, and (after some extensive research) found a way to hook it into my site using bit.ly's pro service (now…

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Adding Featured Images to a WordPress Post or RSS Feed

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Every post on this blog has a "featured image" - the last few have been screenshots of my blog for the various tutorials I've been writing or a photo of the BlogWorld banner to talk about my speaking acceptance, but the one thing that always bothered me was that any time you used a featured image it wouldn't show up (by default) in your…

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Building a Portfolio With Custom Post Types / Taxonomies: Files & Meta

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Yesterday we took a look at the beginning parts of building a portfolio using WordPress.  It basically boiled down to a few parts: Create the Post Type (done yesterday) Create The Taxonomies (Color Scheme [tag based], Work Done, WordPress Functionality Used) (done yesterday) Create Archive / Single pages for post type Create Meta Box Assign Meta Box Data to Single Page Assign Taxonomy Data…

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SOPA, and The Future Of The Internet

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Once that's done, you should see your new entry below "posts" on the left menu, with your three taxonomies underneath.  The first step is complete.  I'll go more into detail on the specific templates used, as well as sidebar content that changes whether you're in the portfolio or not, and even between single portfolio entries and their archive pages.  Our WordPress portfolio is well…

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Feed Me! Bring an RSS Feed Anywhere in your Site

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Many of us are guilty of running multiple blogs – we have personal blogs, work blogs, and even blogs for our pets.  If you’re like me, however, you still like to show the different sides of yourself around your different sites.  WordPress’ built in RSS Widget does a great job at bringing external feeds into your site, but what if you want a little…

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Two Recently Updated Plugins YOU Should Be Using

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Every now and then, just because I’m the biggest WordPress dork I know, I like to just peruse the plugin database to see what’s been updated recently.  After all, how can you use new plugins if you don’t know they’re there?  I’m glad I looked when I did – I found a few plugins that give you some sweet new functionality. WYSIWYG Widgets I’ll…

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