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Freshly Pressed: A Wild New Plugin Appears! Custom Classes

CMDR Mitchcraft

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From time to time I like to surf through the repository and try out new plugins.  It keeps me in the know and I’m able to share those plugins with you.  So, here’s what I found as I was surfing this fine Wednesday:

Custom Classes

Justin Tadlock is a man synonymous with great plugins, and his latest one is fantastic, as always.  Two boxes show up in your post screen.  Both allow you to add custom classes to pages; the boxes allow you to specify both “post classes” and “body classes”.  If you are unfamiliar with their usage, body_class and post_class allow you to add custom (and predefined) classes to your body and div tags to allow custom design and/or formatting depending on what they are defined as.  A simple plugin, with a fantastic simple purpose.

 

body_class, custom classes, justin tadlock, plugin, post_class
  • A Look Back at WordPress

    A Look Back at WordPress

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    …we’ve come a long way from this: …to this… …with a brief stop here… …and to where we are today! And how sweet it is! (thanks to Ozh for a wonderful post – if you aren’t familiar with WordPress, head to his site for a history lesson!)

    WordPress
  • Redirection: An Easy Way to Handle 301 Redirects

    Redirection: An Easy Way to Handle 301 Redirects

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    Since I’ve switched to my new design, I’ve also done quite a bit of cleanup work on the content side of things.  I pruned a lot of old articles that weren’t bringing in search traffic (and weren’t related to the site anymore), cleaned up a lot of the categories, and set my permalink structure to…

    Tutorial, WordPress