Over the past several years I’ve posted content all over the web on various platforms like WordPress, Tumblr, Google+, Twitter and Facebook. In my current situation, I need to consolidate. Mostly, I don’t make money on my websites, never have, just wanted to share content and ideas.
Facebook gives me all I need at the moment; a forum, followers, media storage and discovery. So, that’s where I’ll be posting, probably for ever.
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Showing posts with label WordPress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WordPress. Show all posts
Monday, April 13, 2015
Thursday, November 27, 2014
Show Featured Image After Shareaholic - WordPress
Placing a featured image before the first content paragraph but after the Shareaholic social sharing links plugin. This is pretty simple, but just in case someone needed a quick solution, here is the code. In my case, my theme didn't support this, and I created a child theme so I could update without overwriting my custom changes. It's always smart...
Saturday, March 29, 2014
Adding A Fixed Utility Bar To WordPress Genesis Theme
I wanted to add a new utility bar at the top of my site that was fixed. Using Carrie Dils example with a small modification, I achieved what I wanted. Thanks Carrie.Here are the additions I added:style.css.utility-bar {background-color: #4cbb17;border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;color: #ddd;font-size: 12px;font-size: 1.2rem;padding: 10px 0;padding: 1rem;position: fixed; width: 100%; line-height: .5 !important; z-index: 1;}And I had to make a small change to padding for the @media areas so the title had some distance between the...
Thursday, March 13, 2014
WordPress WP_Query Sorting On Meta Values
I recently needed to sort posts by values saved in a meta value field. The normal post object only has a reference to the meta values so I needed to figure out how to add a meta key, meta value, and direction to WP_Query. Here is what I did:The meta key: event-detailsThe meta value: a:1:{i:0;a:7:{s:16:"event-start-date";s:10:"03-04-2014";s:14:"event-location";s:15:"Someplace, USA";s:10:"event-logo";s:4:"4301";s:10:"event-type";s:5:"Event";s:10:"event-link";s:36:"http://www.company.com/";s:10:"event-time";s:0:"";s:14:"event-end-date";s:10:"03-05-2014";}}The...
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Adding A WordPress Category To Imported Posts
One feature I've either missed over the years or doesn't exist, is the ability to add more meta data to imported posts. Here is the scenario:New WordPress siteImporting old WordPress content into new siteWant to add a new category to all posts (or tag)User custom template page to display new posts (category-foo.php)So how do we solve this issue? Here is what I did. This may not be the best or optimum way, and as a disclaimer, unless you fully understand databases, sql syntax, and how WordPress ties posts and meta data, this...
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Let Me Show You How To Spell WordPress Correctly
It's spelt WordPress. See the difference from Word(p)ress?Believe it or not, I typed in the title of this post into Google, and there wasn't a single post on the first page of results that was just about spelling WordPress correctly.The WordPress team has spent an incredible amount of time coming up with logo styling and use (here), and I see so many variations of the WordPress logo I can't imaging trying to police the problem. But when I am reading around the net, reading posts, articles, blogs, whatever, and people spell...
Friday, May 3, 2013
I'm Using WordPress, Now What? Starter Edition
Here is the PDF of the presentation on GitHub.The following is a list of plug-ins that we discussed during the presentation. All links are valid as of this post but not be in the future.JetPackWeb hosting with BlueHost (*affiliate link)Editorial CalendarSecuritySEOAnalytics - Clicky or GoogleCache - W3 Total Cache or WP Super CacheBackup - BackWPup or VaultPressSocial Shari...
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
WordPress Plug-ins For 2013
Presenting tonight at the SLC WordPress user group tonight. Topic is "I'm Using WordPress, Now What? Plug-in Edition".You can download the presentation here, and view it on Speaker Deck.Please add your list of must have Plug-ins for 201...
Monday, September 17, 2012
WordPress App For Android Sports Snazzy Stats
WordPress for Android (and iOS) has a pretty snazzy stats module. The UI is simpe but has great graphs. You must log into your Wordpress.com account, and it's possible you will also need JetPack. My stats suck so thanks for helping a brother ou...
Friday, March 11, 2011
Exclude Images From WordPress Gallery Display
I wrote this post yesterday which had several images as part of the content. One image was used in a different section of the post, but I wanted to group specific images together to highlight a point I was making.WordPress adds all images uploaded during post creation to a Gallery. Once all the images have been uploaded, you can select the Gallery tab, and insert the gallery right into the post. However, I wanted to exclude one of the images. But there wasn't anything in the image manager that allowed me to exclude an image....
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
First Use Of Amazon CloudFormation
Amazon recently release a new product called CloudFormation. It’s basically an automated build out of several Amazon AWS products, driven by a simple XML file.
One of the templates offered out of the box is for a complete WordPress install. After following the wizard like instructions, I had a basic WordPress installation up and running in a matter...
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
WordPress iPhone App Fail
I've tried, I've really tried, but using the WordPress client application on the iPhone just sucks. The last three posts I've created have all had problems. I fully understand it's a free product, and there are no guarantees, but I expect more from the WordPress folks. Here is the latest snafu.
I have hesitated to upload photos to my blog from third...
Sunday, September 5, 2010
WordPress 3.1 Has A Feature List
Last week the development team for WordPress came up with a list of features/bug fixes they want to include in 3.1. As with all software, the end result may differ from this list. Check it out here.Two things I'm excited about, and really hope are implemented, is a new multi site Admin, and a configurable Dashboard. This is kind of interesting, because...
Friday, May 14, 2010
SMCSLC WordPress 3.0 Presentation Slides
Here are the slides I used in my WordPress 3.0 presentation last night for the Social Media Club of Salt Lake City (SMCSLC).It was a great event, the audience was great, the other presenters (Dan Garfield @todaywasawesome) and panelists (Jake Spurlock @whyisjake) were awesome. It was a good WordPress night.Thanks to Darin 'Doc' Berntson (@igobydoc) for putting the event together to coincide with the Eye Care for Kids charity concert after the club meeting. Doc really spends a lot of time promoting and supporting the...
Thursday, April 29, 2010
BuddyPress And The Missing Admin Bar: Solved!
I’ve been working on a few BuddyPress projects lately, using custom themes. Actually, I’ve used a great new plug-in, BuddyPress Template Pack by Andy Peatling to help with custom themes. While this great plug-in got me down the road (it basically turns your existing theme into a BuddyPress compatible theme), there were a few things missing. I wanted...
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Looks Like Fancy Commenting Systems Don’t Rule
Over the past week I have been running a poll asking what WordPress commenting systems people like. The options were Disqus, IntenseDebate, Native – built in, or None. Here is how it broke down: 59% of respondents preferred native commenting to a third party system. 25% of respondents preferred Disqus. 16% of respondents preferred IntenseDebate. These are completely un-scientific results. I’ll continue to run the poll to see if I can get more results, and I’ll update this post, or if the overall results change,...
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
WordPress Releases New iPhone App
This post is really a test using the new WordPress iPhone App, http://iphone.wordpress.org, version 2.1. I really want to test the picture upload feature.You do have the ability to manage comments, but if you use a comment plugin system like Disqus, you can't moderate those comments.I do like that you can create pages with this tool. I also like that...
Friday, November 27, 2009
Two Impressive Ecommerce Plug-ins For WordPress
I’m asked frequently what ecommerce plug-ins I have used and recommend for WordPress. There are several options, but two stand out. WP e-Commerce Plug-in For WordPress WP e-Commerce is a free plug-in and can be installed right from the plug-in section of your hosted WordPress admin tool. There are several modules for this product including drop...
Friday, September 18, 2009
The Basics Of WordPress
Last night I lead a discussion on the Basics of WordPress at the Social Media Club of Salt Lake City. I really want to thank Pete Codella and Joseph Scott for asking me to participate. It was a lot of fun. Due to some technical difficulties, we had more of a discussion, which is always better than a boring lecture. Please find the slide deck here for you viewing pleasure.Thank you to all who attended, you had some great questions, and several of you shared your experience. If you were in my class last night connect with...
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Today I Learned About WordPress Category Templates
Today I learned about category templates in WordPress. There is a simple, yet rarely used feature, that allows you to display content based on a specific category. For example, if you have 10 categories, with ID’s 1-10, and you want to show your visitors something different for each of these 10 categories, you can create files with this naming convention: category-1.php, category-2.php, and so on. When the URL http://mydomain.com/category/coolcat is entered into the browsers address bar, and WordPress sees a category request...
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