in the great white north
Oh how the mighty have fallen. Unless you've been living under a rock these last few weeks you know all about Tung Do (aka Small Potato) and the sale of his website wpdesigner.com to Miami entrepreneur Pawel Ciszewski. While the figure being thrown about is $65K and change, some sources claim it to be much less. Whatever SP sold his site for is ... Read More »
Since I've been helping out in the WordPress Support Forums for the last year I've noticed numerous threads about some common error messages encountered by various bloggers. I'm going to highlight 2 such messages and show you how easy they are to correct. Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at ... Read More »
Here is a little tip to force WordPress to use clean permalinks for search results. Despite using pretty permalinks you may have noticed WordPress returns search results as yoursite.com/?s=SEARCHTERMS instead of yoursite.com/search/SEARCHTERMS. I'll show you how to achieve the latter. First of all, create a new file called search.php which ... Read More »
In my previous post I showed you how to easily add pullquotes to your WordPress blog by simply adding a new class to the existing blockquote. Now I'll show you a way to do it without manually adding class="mag" to every blockquote tag. We do it by adding a new button to the Text Editor Toolbar. Remember back in November when I showed you how to ... Read More »
Although I prefer the minimalistic approach to web design there are some design features I've seen on other sites that I thought were kind of cool. For example, some of the big news and magazine sites make use of a styling technique called pullquotes. A pullquote is a little block of text that is highlighted in someway which adds an interesting ... Read More »
Among the great new features introduced in WordPress 2.5 is the built-in support for Gravatars, or Globally Recognized Avatars. Global because once you sign up for a free account your email address is associated with the image you chose and will be automatically displayed on any web page that supports the feature. To enable this feature in WP 2.5 ... Read More »
For some odd reason I've seen an increase in the number of threads at the forums from people unable to login to their WordPress install. I'm not sure if they have simply forgotten their login details or if the information in the database was somehow corrupted but the threads are very real. If you find you cannot login to WordPress because you ... Read More »
If you're a rabid WordPress fan like me you no doubt love to peruse the documentation at the Codex. I know I do. I could spend hours pouring over the information and quite often I do. Usually after coming across some useful little nugget I'll hurry over to my local install and put theory to practice. I think half the fun is reading about things ... Read More »
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