How to fix common problems on a WordPress website
This is an advanced tutorial for WordPress users interested in using WordPress CakePHP. There are several tricks in this tutorial you can apply to your WordPress/CakePHP setup when moving from one server to another. The tricks in this tutorial can be useful whether you are moving to a new server or adding WordPress to your …
Since WP Mods was launched the archives page has showed older posts by month and by category. Posts are listed using the index.php template so the title, excerpt and featured image are all displayed. Whilst this is a user friendly way of displaying older articles, it isn’t necessarily what everyone wants. Effectiveness of displaying posts …
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Author+ is a premium WordPress plugin from Blogging Dojo that enhances the author information page on your website beyond simply listing an authors posts. It’s a useful plugin if you want to give more exposure to your top authors. The plugin allows you to integrate Twitter, Google+ and Facebook into a users profile. It also allows you …
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One of the setbacks of using Facebook for comments is that comments are not hosted in your own database. This can be a problem if you ever want to change your commenting system. For a few months, I used a combination of Facebook Comments and the default WordPress commenting system through last month I migrated to the …
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Favicons are those little 16×16 icons which you see at the top of your browser. They also appear in other places such as bookmarks and RSS readers. You don’t need to have a favicon for your website, though I think it’s important part of branding and promoting your site. Also, it only takes 2 minutes to add …
It is always good practice to have testing environment installed locally where you can access it with out internet connection. It can be a real life saver if your internet connection slows down or is lost completely as you can continue to work on modifying your WordPress site in your test area and then update …
The current WP Mods theme was designed by Blog Design Studio over a year ago. I still love the design however as the theme was designed before WordPress 3 was released, a lot of new WordPress features such as menus, background images and header images were not built into the site. Whilst I have no plans on using the …
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I’ve always been a big supporter of trackbacks and pingbacks. For the last few years many bloggers have removed them from their websites saying that they are no longer useful or relevant but in the last few years I have wrote articles strongly supporting them as they allow discussions to grow out with the original source. Sadly, due …
Working with WordPress’ media library and images can be at once and pleasure and pain. I tend to like the manner in which images are managed in the admin; however, I have been left wanting when it comes to using images in the frontend of site. In particular, I have experienced difficulties displaying images at …
GChart is a great new plugin from the Ukrainian developer straightforward that lets you insert beautiful charts and graphs directly into your posts and pages. Install GChart Plugin Charts are built using the Google Visualization API and the output given uses pure HTML5. Once the plugin has been installed you will see a new ‘Add Chart’ icon in …
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