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…
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 the Post Type (done yesterday) Create The Taxonomies (Color…
This is the second post of Mitch Canter's "WordPress BootCamp" series... it showcases the ins and outs of WordPress to new users, and highlights some of the more popular (and some overlooked) features that make WordPress fantastic. You can catch all of the posts here. I get a lot of questions on this: "What's the difference between a category and a tag?" "How many…
This is the first post of Mitch Canter's "WordPress BootCamp" series... it showcases the ins and outs of WordPress to new users, and highlights some of the more popular (and some overlooked) features that make WordPress fantastic. If you're new to WordPress, you may be wondering how in the world WordPress could be anything more than a simple blog. Don't get me wrong, WordPress…
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 when people try to view your blog all they…
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 as awesome as New York was, it's going to…
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 appear because I don’t have access to the backend…
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 thus far: From Matthew: I agree. But where WordPress…
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…
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…