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WordPress Wednesday: Safe Function Calls

WordPress Wednesday: Safe Function Calls

If you’re editing a WordPress theme template file by adding a call to a plugin’s function, you need to be careful. In six months or a year you’re going to deactivate or delete that plugin, and you’re going to get a big ugly fatal PHP error on your blog. You can avoid it, though, by

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#code #php #plugins #wordpress #wordpresswednesday

WordPress Wednesday: Admin Lists

WordPress Wednesday: Admin Lists

Right now I’ve got just under 3,400 posts here on this site. That makes it sort of a pain when I’m browsing through them in the back-end because by default the WordPress engine is set to display lists of posts fifteen at a time. I frequently have twenty or more drafts and / or scheduled

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#plugins #wordpress #wordpresswednesday

WordPress Wednesday: Pithy Quotes Plugin

WordPress Wednesday: Pithy Quotes Plugin

If you look at the top of this page you’ll see that there is a short quip displayed in my header. Every time you visit any page, it changes. I have about fifteen little quotes in my database and they’re set to display randomly with each refresh of the page. I wrote a plugin which

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#plugins #quotations #web design #wordpress #wordpress themes #wordpresswednesday

WordPress Wednesday: Thesis Theme Tag Text

WordPress Wednesday: Thesis Theme Tag Text

Today I’m going to explain how to make your WordPress blog display a special note based on a tag associated with a post. This tip is uniquely written for users of Chris Pearson’s awesome Thesis Theme, but if you are crafty enough with WordPress, you’ll be able to use it regardless of the theme you’re

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#code #hacks #php #programming #wordpress #wordpress themes #wordpresswednesday

  • General Stuff
    • Kenny Powers on Twitter — way more fun than the CDC on Twitter
    • Crimes committed by Ferris Bueller during his Day off.
    • Great quote from WWTDD?: “Honest to God, I’d throw myself down the stairs with a light bulb in my mouth to see Megan Fox naked.”
    • The Spatial Distribution of the Seven Deadly Sins Within Nevada
    • Happy 20th birthday, Gameboy! (Tetris was the only Gameboy game I ever had.)
  • Techie Stuff
    • Campfire is like instant messaging, but designed exclusively for groups.
    • Eight great Thesis design tips to make your blog better.
    • The Basics of Merging and Branching with Subversion
    • Want to talk to a complete stranger online? Try omegle!

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WordPress Wednesday: Delicious Links

WordPress Wednesday: Delicious Links

Delicious is a social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save, manage and share web pages from a centralized source. With emphasis on the power of the community, Delicious greatly improves how people discover, remember and share on the Internet. Lots of people use Delicious to store bookmarks online, and as a blog publisher

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#wordpress #wordpresswednesday

WordPress Wednesday: Submit to Facebook

How to add a ‘Post to Facebook’ link to your Wordpress blog

#facebook #php #search engine optimization #social networks #wordpress #wordpresswednesday

WordPress Wednesday: Amazon QuickTags Plugin

WordPress Wednesday: Amazon QuickTags Plugin

In which I add some buttons to the Wordpress Admin content editor

#amazon #css #html #javascript #php #plugins #web design #wordpress #wordpresswednesday

WordPress Wednesday: Displaying Huge Archives

WordPress Wednesday: Displaying Huge Archives

Once you’ve been blogging for a few years, you’re going to realize that your archives page is huge. For the casual one-post-each-week blogger, it might be okay to display the titles or even excerpts of posts on your archives page. But what about you and your twenty-posts-per-day blogging habit? It won’t be long before your

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#archives #blogging #web design #wordpress #wordpresswednesday

WordPress Wednesday: Create a Twitter Widget

The team at ProBlogDesign has posted an excellent tutorial explaining How to Create Your Own Twitter Widget. The instructions are very detailed and by following them you’ll learn quite a lot about how widgets work.

#tutorials #twitter #web design #wordpress #wordpresswednesday

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