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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
Previously, we have talked about modifying your post excerpts. This is great if you always use the automatic excerpts that WordPress provides. However, if your customer every puts in a manual excerpt, this functionality won't give you the "read more" that you are expecting. What a pain, right!?
Well, I have ...
Posted in Advanced Use, Customization | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
This is my personal favorite way of modifying excerpts, I found all this information on the WordPress codex excerpts page.
I think that the WordPress excerpt is a little bit short so the code below will extend it to 120 words. Also, by default WordPress only shows the [...] at the ...
Posted in Advanced Use, Customization | 1 Comment »
Monday, February 7th, 2011
At least, that's what we thought. We tried everything, including re-entering all our credentials again. Nothing seemed to work.
Then we tried something really strange. We re-applied for a Twitter application, just created a new one. This gave us all new Oauth Consumer Keys and Access tokens.
After putting them into Twitter ...
Posted in Toubleshooting WordPress | No Comments »
Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
We recently completed version 1 of our "How to Set up A Website without breaking the bank" ebook!
It gives you everything you need to:
Get a domain
Change the DNS
Get Hosting (at a discount)
Setup hosting
Setup and Configure WordPress
Including the cost of the book, you can get your domain and hosting and set ...
Posted in How to set up your website, News and Information | No Comments »
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
We just recently put a new website together using our host's one-click install method. Instantly, the site needed something like 30 updates, most of which were to theme files.
So, I just clicked "update all". Then, all of a sudden, my whole site was in maintenance mode and I couldn't do ...
Posted in Toubleshooting WordPress | No Comments »
Thursday, November 4th, 2010
If you are finding that you have links in your page source to things like sexual enhancement drugs or other fun internet spam things.. you may want to check out these guys:
http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked
http://deanhunt.com/has-your-wordpress-blog-been-hacked/
And google: WordPress Hacked
If these do not solve your problems, you may want to search your Wp-Options table for ...
Posted in Advanced Use, Managing Your Site | No Comments »
Friday, October 8th, 2010
Even if you are cutting a theme for a single site and it will never be moved away, you should follow some simple guidelines to ensure quality in your theme. This will make sure that even if your customer does something crazy and unexpected, that your ...
Posted in Tags, Themes, User Familiarity | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010
I was working on a plugin that someone else created and there was a requirement for validating that a specific name field was filled in before submitting the form. Since WordPress has jquery.form.js included in the source, I figured I could use that. Turns out it is pretty easy!
First thing, ...
Posted in Advanced Use | No Comments »
Saturday, August 28th, 2010
Just drop this code into a script in your blog's root directory:
Posted in Plugins, Suggested Plugins | No Comments »
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Similar to this post, you can add a new function that is called by the "user_contactmethods" filter. Then, unset the values for the contact methods you no longer would like.
For AIM, you would do the following in your functions.php file:
function bwa_remove_some_contactmethods( $contactmethods ) {
unset($contactmethods['aim']);
return $contactmethods;
}
add_filter('user_contactmethods','bwa_remove_some_contactmethods',10,1);
You can modify the other items ...
Posted in Advanced Use, Configuration, User Profile | No Comments »
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Widgets were a HUGE deal when WordPress added them in as a feature, before adding them in to the core system widgets functionality was added through a plugin. This was clumsy but it worked well at the time.
Since being added to WordPress core widgets have allowed site owners to manage ...
Posted in How to set up your website, Widgets | No Comments »
Friday, July 23rd, 2010
Since our post on your about us page, we have had some questions about how to submit your site to aboutus.org.
First, go to http://aboutus.org and put your website's URL (your domain name) into the search field.
Once your site is entered, you will be taken to your site's page. The URL ...
Posted in News and Information | No Comments »
