Jeremy Clarke mentioned to me about a way to search the Codex, WordPress support area and the plugin repository all from within FireFox. If you support users as I do in the WordPress IRC chat room, there are a lot of times where I do a search on the Codex to look up the page for a certain function that someone is inquiring about. Thanks to Jeremy’s tip, I no longer have to visit the actual page to perform a search. If you visit the MyCroft page on Mozdev.org you’ll notice a number of links that you can click on. Each one of these links are a search engine plugin that was coded for FireFox. What this means is that, you can add WordPress specific search engines to the search engine tool bar within FireFox which is usually occupied by Google by default. In order to install a SE plugin, […]
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How to organize posts into two side-by-side columns in WordPress: A quick tutorial on setting up the front page of a WordPress blog to display two side by side columns with posts alternating between the two columns. The tutorial does require some simple PHP code that is not included (but should be, pseudo code is provided) but the concept is interesting, especially for theme developers looking for the next new thing. In my experience, side by side posts are more applicable for blogs that are heavy in embedded media and light on text.
[Continue Reading...]I battled this one for a little bit and I hope the information here helps someone. First and foremost, there are various version of this problem and they might have different causes stemming from the same source. I list them here in no particular order. I found all the topics starting with a search for the dreaded “Method Not Implemented” 501 error code from the admin panel of WordPress. POST to /test/wp-admin/index-extra.php not supported: This error is also noticed on post.php and theme-editor.php. Now there are various WordPress Forum posts providing somewhat workable solutions to the problem. I tried some of the solutions but either they did not work for me (I had not looked that closely at the error before trying them) or they were too broad and I did not care for the results. There is some finger pointing in both the forums and the various other pages […]
[Continue Reading...]Whether you’re brand new to WordPress or have been around the neighborhood for a few months chances are, you have heard at least one or more of the following terms without knowing their definition. As with any sub-culture, WordPress has developed its own lingo of sorts. This post will dive into some of the common words associated with WordPress and by the end of this article, you’ll be able to follow a conversation in the WordPress.org IRC channel with ease! Codex – The WordPress.org Codex is like a portal containing all sorts of information related to the open source project. The Codex is maintained by volunteer document writers who are part of the WP.org community. When you have a problem or question with WordPress.org, the codex is the first place you should look for an answer. Parameter – Parameters are often mentioned when discussing plugin or theme development topics. Think […]
[Continue Reading...]List of WordPress tutorials: A bunch of WordPress tutorials on various topics in the form of screencasts. Topics include various tasks such as installation on a variety of platforms and tasks inside the WordPress admin.
[Continue Reading...]The Advanced WordPress Help Sheet: Michael has put together another PDF Help sheet for WordPress, this time with advanced tips and tricks to use various WordPress functions within your theme. This includes various code snippets from Styling Different Categories to Dynamic Page Titles. He says that this is the first of a few others that he will be putting together and is up for suggestions and ideas. Also check out Michael’s other WordPress Help Sheet from the past. Via Email.
[Continue Reading...]TAGStention for WordPress: TAGStention is NOT a WordPress plugin nor is it a guide, its a Dreamweaver extension that has helpful features for theme developers such as Wizards for tags with parameters Help button redirects to codex Support for 90% of the tags Insert basic loops (wizard) Insert headers (wizard) Ultimate TagWarrior tags supported (NEW) Help button (NEW) PayPal button at help screen (NEW) Is supports Dreamweaver 8 and MX2004 and the author says that it might support some older versions. It is based on a CC license. Thanks to WordPress Candy for the tip.
[Continue Reading...]WordPress Functions Implementation History Tool: Ozh has come up with a fantastic WordPress Function Implementation History tool that is essentially a way to check when a function was implemented in WordPress and when and if it was removed in a trendy axajified manner, it will let you search across nearly 1900 functions through 31 WordPress releases, from 0.71 to 2.3. He also released a map of WordPress functions through all the versions. Very useful tool indeed. Thank you Ozh!
[Continue Reading...]This tip isn’t very specific to WordPress, but something I realized only a few days ago. If you have an article that is ranking well in the search engines, let’s say “wordpress skins” or “picasa web tips“, either of those searches may generate a decent amount of traffic for either Weblogtoolscollection.com or Ginside.com. Well, let me back up a second here. I recently installed the Firestats plugin and it’s been amazing. It’s capable of providing me with the recent referrers, so I can see where my traffic is coming from, and also provide a list of my top posts. So what I did was I took some of those top posts and analyzed them for what keyword they were ranking really well for. I then wrote another article with the similar theme and makeup with keywords to generate some fresh content. I noticed that I was in the top10 for […]
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