‘WordPress Tips’ Category

January 16th, 2010

According to the WordPress.com support page on short codes they are defined as follows:
A shortcode is a WordPress-specific code that lets you do nifty things with very little effort. Shortcodes can embed files or create objects that would normally require lots of complicated, ugly code in just one line. Shortcode = shortcut.

Many WordPress plug-ins make use of short codes to easily make a call to a plug-ins functionality. This can make maintaining your WordPress based site very easy but what happens if you decide to shift from one plug-in to another and that specific short code is not used in the new plug-in?
Let me give you an example. I used to use the WordPress Adsense Manager Plug-in on WindowsObserver.com to place my Google Adsense ads. It allowed me to build the ad and then use a short code to place it on a page or in a blog post. That [...]

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(5 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

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is_home(), is_archive() not Working? Here is a Fix

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Keith Dsouza

January 16th, 2010

WordPress Tips

Quite recently, is_home() and is_archive() stopped working for me. I mean, that these conditional tags stopped working for me and the intended code I had was not performing as expected.

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(4 votes, average: 4.25 out of 5)

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Preventing WordPress Plugins From Loading

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Ronald Huereca

January 10th, 2010

WordPress Hack, WordPress Tips

There may be times in WordPress where you would like to load the WordPress environment manually, and prevent plugins from loading.
Two instances where this is ideal are:

When loading an inline frame with Thickbox or Colorbox.
When parsing AJAX requests in an external PHP file.

To further give justification for this technique, I had a major plugin conflict with another plugin. My Ajax Edit Comments plugin had failed to work for one of my clients.
After doing some troubleshooting, I determined it was a plugin conflict with “xyz” plugin. When I looked at the conflicting plugin’s code, I was able to pinpoint the problem to one patch of code, but failed to determine a fix.
The conflicting plugin was causing my nonces to fail, as well as my AJAX processor to fail (since that uses nonces as well).
Since my plugin’s editing options are all in a Colorbox inline frame (where I manually load [...]

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(3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

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A Simple Mistake Could Cause You Priceless Headaches

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Keith Dsouza

January 9th, 2010

WordPress Discussions, WordPress Tips

As a developer it is always easy to overlook minor things, some of them may not cause you much headaches, but some of them could eventually build up to give you nightmares because they are hard to spot.

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(10 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)

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WordPress 2.9 Feature Focus Batch Plug-in Updates

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Richard Hay

December 20th, 2009

WordPress, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Tips, WordPress WishList

WordPress 2.9 (Carmen) has been officially released and has quite a few new features. Some are visible and right on the page while many others are under the hood.
One of the features that I really like is the ability to bulk update my plug-ins. In previous versions of WordPress you had to update each plug-in individually by clicking on the automatic upgrade link in the WordPress plug-in, entering your FTP credentials and then waiting for the update to happen. If you had a lot of plug-ins this process could take a while to do.
To utilize the new bulk update process go to the Tools>Upgrade menu in the admin panel:

There you will find a screen that looks something like this":

Select the check boxes for all the plug-ins you want to update and then press the Upgrade Plug-in button at the bottom and you will then be taken to [...]

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(4 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

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How To Track Outbound Links From Your WordPress Blog

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Keith Dsouza

November 29th, 2009

WordPress Tips

As a webmaster we are all concerned about the number of links that are coming into the blog and all the other stats that usually concern the traffic to the blog. However, another important thing we all miss to see is the number of outbound clicks from our blog to other websites.

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How To Disable Delete Post Functionality For Everyone Except Administrator

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Keith Dsouza

November 25th, 2009

WordPress Tips

WordPress has a pretty decent role management in place, which allows you to create users and assign them certain privileges and functionality. However, there are few things which you cannot right now with it, for example, creating new roles, modifying role privileges and so on.

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(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

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How to Create Micro Blogs Within WordPress

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Keith Dsouza

November 21st, 2009

WordPress Tips

A tutorial to help you create a Microblog on your main WordPress blog without using any additional plugins or themes.

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(5 votes, average: 4.80 out of 5)

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How Do You Do That?

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James Dimick

November 18th, 2009

HOW-TO, WordPress, WordPress Discussions, WordPress Tips, Wordpress for Beginners

Ever wanted to do something in WordPress but just wasn’t sure how? In my experience this happens quite often, mostly with people new to WordPress. But, even the experts run into trouble sometimes. Today I thought I’d start a series of posts which will aim to explain how to do certain things in WordPress. Hopefully this will cover anything from quick tips and simple little functions, all the way up to more complex custom code and the like. So, stick around and you just might learn something.
I think I’ll kick off the series with a couple simple ones…

Why isn’t this plugin working with my theme?
This is probably one of the most common issues I read about regarding WordPress. Sometimes even more experienced WPers can get this one wrong. Now, I’m not saying this is the solution to all problems between plugins and themes. Its just that this little [...]

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(5 votes, average: 3.40 out of 5)

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