Problem With Magazine Style Themes

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Magazine-style WordPress themes seem to be the latest craze spreading throughout the community and why not? Instead of presenting your posts in the standard blog format (chronological order) you can pick and choose which sections to display and how many entries from each section. Most if not all magazine-style themes contain a "featured" section or some such thing highlighting a post from a category... continue reading

December 9th, 2008
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Changing the WordPress Excerpt Length

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A recent visitor to the WordPress Support Forum asked if is possible to increase the length of excerpts when using the the_excerpt tag. Yes it is. The default value is set to 55. The file that controls this is located at wp-includes/formatting.php. Look for excerpt_length and adjust accordingly. Having said that altering core files is never a good idea unless you know what you're doing. A better option... continue reading

December 9th, 2008
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