Tag: WordPress
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Adding Featured Images to a WordPress Post or RSS Feed
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…
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Building a Portfolio With Custom Post Types / Taxonomies: Enhancing The Archive
Yesterday we finished our portfolio, built with a custom post type, three taxonomies, and some custom field information that we can use to display lots of data about our pieces. Today is a bonus; we’ve got all these really cool taxonomies, but no way to really browse the portfolio based on a specific term. Create…
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WordPress BootCamp: Setting a Static Front Page
If you’re new to WordPress, you may be wondering how in the world WordPress could be anything more than a simple blog.
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Top 5 Things to Do After Installing Your New WordPress Blog
So you’ve gotten your new website up and ready to go – and you’re chomping at the bit to add some delicious content. But don’t jump the gun just yet – there’s a few things you need to do before you start releasing your new site to the masses. 1. Change your Permalinks Right now…
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Westward, Ho! (aka, It’s Nearly BlogWorld LA) [#bweny]
Get. Stinking. Excited. It’s that time again – as if BlogWorld New York wasn’t awesome enough, now I’m getting a double dose of awesomeness – west coast style. I just got my acceptance email stating that I will be speaking at BlogWorldLA. It’s November 3-5 at the LA Convention Center, and if it’s even HALF…
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How to set up multiple “layouts” in a post loop (a la TechCrunch)
I’ve seen a lot of hateful comments on TechCrunch regarding their new design. I’m going to officially go on-record and say that (from a design standpoint) I really like where they’re going with the new style. But, beyond that, under the surface, there’s a few other things that appear to be going on (I say…
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WordPress Needs iOS Enthusiasts
There was a post titled (albeit linkbatingly) “Tumblr is Killing WordPress” on the Smedio blog about a week ago. The comments have kept coming in one by one, with the majority of commenters showing their support for WordPress. However, one comment that came up struck me as sort of telling on how the story stands…
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Two Recently Updated Plugins YOU Should Be Using
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…