March 6, 2011
Default image for post thumbnails
Here’s a great way to display a default image if no post thumbnail is provided.
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January 31, 2011
TwentyTen CRM
TwentyTen CRM is a theme specifically designed to manage your customers, from initial contact to project completion. It’s highly customizable and free.
January 19, 2011
Custom Avatars in WordPress
This tutorial extends WordPress’ get_avatar() function. It let’s users upload a custom avatar in case they don’t want to use a Gravatar.
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.
December 6, 2010
Post Type Linking
This technique will let you link posts in one content type with another. For example, if you have an Events post type and a Musicians post type, you can link a musician with a certain event.
December 4, 2010
WordCamp Austin – WordPress Beyond Blogging
Here’s the summary of my talk for WordCamp Austin today. If you’re at WordCamp, use this to follow along.
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 22, 2010
Switch Genesis Sidebars
Here’s how you change which sidebar shows up in which sidebar area. This is useful when using different page layouts.
November 21, 2010
Shortcodes in Sidebar Widgets
Edit: As of WordPress 3.3, shortcodes now work in widgets (the first line of code has been added to WP core). But you’ll still need to create the other functions.…
November 17, 2010
Genesis 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.