Archive for the ‘User Familiarity’ Category
Thursday, December 1st, 2011
Where are the user roles stored for WordPress?
If you have ever been looking for where the actual user roles are stored for WordPress, say because all of a sudden you have no user roles anymore, they are actually socked away in the database. Go to your wp_options table and find ...
Posted in Advanced Use, Toubleshooting WordPress | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
There may be a time as a plugin developer when you wrote a plugin that effects the post-editing or page-editing interface for WordPress. In this case, you may also need to somehow trigger the content to auto save, like WordPress will do automatically from time to time.
The best and easiest ...
Posted in Advanced Use, Areas of WordPress, Customization, Pages, Posts, User Familiarity | No Comments »
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
In your theme files, you may want to add some functionality that shows after your post content if and only if you have a specific custom field set.
This is actually pretty easy to do, just add this code to your functions.php file and make sure to change the name of ...
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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 »
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
2011 is here and a lot of updating activities are surely in line. New year’s resolutions, wishes and setting targets are just some of things we look forward to do. As bloggers, we are keen to update our blogs, however some forgot to update the copyright date.
This is the best ...
Posted in Areas of WordPress, How to set up your website, Managing Your Site | No Comments »
Monday, January 24th, 2011
Occasionally there comes a time when you need to disable your website to visitors, especially if you're setting up a website for a customer but it is in pre-launch stage. If you need do that you can drop some code into your header.php file quickly and easily using these instructions:
1. ...
Posted in Basic Use, Managing Your Site | No Comments »
Thursday, January 13th, 2011
We're big advocates of favicons here at WP-Relief. They give a website a professional edge over any website without a favicon. In today's competitive internet markets that competitive edge can be the difference between no dollars, and lots of dollars, success and failure. You get the idea, so pay attention ...
Posted in Basic Use, Content, Getting Started With Websites, How to set up your website | 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 ...
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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 »
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
How to set up Twitter Tools?
Here are detailed instructions to complete your set up for your Twitter Tools.
If you haven't connected to twitter, the image below will guide you on how to do it. All you need is to follow the instructions and you will have your Twitter Tools connected.
To ...
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