Learnthat.com provides a variety of free tutorials – some the length of courses – and I am frequently using the <!–nextpage–> tag to insert a page within a longer tutorial. One of my goals before the end of the year is to improve the UI and efficiency of posting tutorials so that I can speed […]
I wanted a solution to add a Facebook Like Button to every image in a WordPress Photo Gallery for a voting contest and I used the gallery shortcode function in WordPress to accomplish it. Do you know of a better way to do this? The result is a Facebook Like button beneath each caption on […]
BuddyPress has several custom settings you can define in the wp-config.php which will allow you to configure BuddyPress in a unique way. Here are some settings you can make in wp-config.php to alter how BuddyPress behaves: [php]// Custom Settings You Can Place in wp-config.php for BuddyPress // Define the blog numbers BuddyPress should run on […]
Custom post types do not use the standard categories or tags as normal posts, but the capability is there to create a custom taxonomy – a custom set of categories for a custom post type. However, the built-in WordPress function in_category() does not work with custom taxonomies. So, to figure out if a custom post […]
We are working with creating protected page reports for clients with a simple password protection, using the standard WordPress Password Protected functionality. Unfortunately, it adds “protected” to the page heading. This simple code, added to functions.php, removes “protected” from protected posts and pages sitewide: [php]/* Remove Protected from Title on Protected Pages */ add_filter(‘protected_title_format’, ‘blank’); […]
I had a problem with the security on my Linux server set so nobody owned the Apache process but I owned the files on the server. I know there are many ways to fix this problem so you’re not required to enter FTP authentication info each time (including placing FTP authentication info in the wp-config), […]
I was recently working on a project where the client wanted “time ago” date stamps, such as Posted 23 minutes ago or Posted 1 week ago. For that project, we used the very nice jQuery Timeago script which automatically formats any date/time in a properly formatted tag to a timeago, kind of like this: [html]<abbr […]