December 17, 2010
Breadcrumbs for Taxonomy Pages
I’m working on a project right now that uses hierarchical taxonomies, and here’s the solution I used for taxonomy breadcrumbs.
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November 30, 2010
Creating a WordPress Widget
I’ll walk you through building a widget, using a Subpages widget as an example.
November 23, 2010
Thesis Quick Tips
There’s a lot of small code snippets I use often but don’t warrant their own post. This is where I’ll collect them.
November 11, 2010
Export WordPress Content to Excel
Here’s a way to get your WordPress content into a table that can easily be moved to a spreadsheet. This is best if you’re using WordPress to collect data and want to analyze it in Excel. I use it for keeping track of incoming client inquiries.
October 18, 2010
Using Taxonomies
Taxonomies allow you to organize content in different ways. I’ll walk you through creating and implementing custom taxonomies, as well as show you how I used taxonomies for my personal portfolio.
October 12, 2010
Using Shortcodes
Shortcodes are a great tool if you need to stick code or reusable pieces of content inside your posts or pages.
September 18, 2010
Replacing Thesis Post Image with WordPress Post Thumbnail
WordPress has a “Featured Image” option which is much easier to use than Thesis’ Post Image tool. I’ll walk you through setting it up on your Thesis website.
September 9, 2010
Adding Facebook Like
Want to add the “like” button to your website, but you’re using Thesis or Genesis? Here’s the functions you should write to get it up and running.
September 8, 2010
Make Menu visible over Youtube Video
If you have videos on your site and are using a dropdown menu, chances are you’ve run into the issue where the menu goes behind the video. The typical solution…
September 2, 2010
Using Custom Post Types
Custom post types let you create logical divisions of content and context-specific meta information boxes. If your site features content other than posts and pages, use this to manage it.
August 30, 2010
Adding “nofollow” to Category Links
If you have a lot of categories, here’s how to add a “nofollow” to them to prevent diluting your Google PageRank.
May 31, 2010
Full Width Navigation in Thesis
Create eye-catching, full-width menus for your Thesis site.
May 17, 2010
Adding Content Between Posts in Thesis
This shows you how to stick code between certain posts, but not all of them. It’s very useful for including ads or other content you don’t want repeated.
May 15, 2010
How to Move your WordPress Website
Here’s how you quickly move a WordPress website from one server to another, without losing any content or settings. This is what I do when I’ve built a client’s site on my development server and it’s time to launch.
April 12, 2010
Custom WordPress Queries
Here’s how to create a list of posts that doesn’t interfere with The Loop (what generates the content on your WordPress site).