Thanks to the awesomeness of 8BIT‘s Tom McFarlin, I’ve found a great place to snag some WordPress 4-1-1!
The WordPress Codex gets the job done, but this handy tool may be a better place for getting info on WordPress data:
I am a self-taught WordPress programmer that has been a wild roller coaster ride that has been full of experiences of major and minor successes as well as huge and numerous minor failures. If you are coding themes, plugins, or actually working on the WordPress developmental team, you will have to eventually work with “The Loop.”
The Loop controls the whole of the WordPress blog and is extremely powerful, yet simple. Unfortunately, for someone that comes into programming with WordPress and does not have anyone there to explain stuff with them, it can be extremely confusing.
Thankfully, we have been given a great visual illustration by wptuts+ that wonderfully shows how it runs and where you will need to make your changes for your own personal site.
On my personal blog I put an image at the top of each post. I’ve wanted to do this with WordPress’ Featured Image function, but haven’t gotten around to it, yet.
When I do, what will happen to all those old posts? What will happen when I try to use WordPress’ post thumbnail feature?
For my old posts, I will want to use the first image that’s found in the content or some sort of default if no image is present.
Of course, this is one example of many reasons why you would want to do this!
Here’s the code:
If you’ve built your WordPress theme to use the Featured Image functionality, your RSS feed subscribers are missing part of your post.
When you use a small thumbnail, you may not think much about it. However, there may be instances where you want to include your post thumbnail. Of course, there are those WordPress theme designs that include a large wide Featured Image that can add a lot to the feeling of a post. Sure, you could simply insert the image at the top of the post, but there are some other functions you can do in WordPress by calling a posts Featured Image.
With this WordPress snippet, you can have the best of both worlds. Here’s how to add your post thumbnail/Featured Image to your RSS feed:
Although WordPress is often used as a full-fledged CMS, it isn’t nativly. Sure, it’s getting closer, but let’s face it — WordPress is still blog centric.
That being said, I really love WordPress and still use it as a basic CMS. Let’s just say, you’re not going to ever find Amazon running on WordPress.
Since WordPress isn’t built as a hardcore CMS out of the box, there are some modificaitons you can do that can mold it into more of one.
Here are five WordPress Administratoin modifcations you’re going to love.
For a very long time, now, WP-PageNavi has been a very popular plugin to use for pagination. It’s well built, easy to customize and easy to add to your theme. Plus, it handles pagination for everything — post pages, comments and post archives.
But, did you know WordPress has this function already built-in? It’s just takin some time for it to be unearthed, and hopefully after learning how to use the WordPress function, you can start using it and give yourself one less plugin to deal with!
If you’re in charge of maintaining a church, ministry or client website, you know how frustrating it can be for someone who has administrative permission to update plugins.
Normally, this isn’t a problem, but sometimes this can lead to a broken site. I’ve had modded plugins updated, before, so you can image my relief when I found I had a backup. Modded plugin update = plugin modification gone!
Another situation arose when a non-profit contacted me with some web issues. Their website was broken. The reason? Plugin updates.
There are obviously a number of good reasons to prevent WordPress form checking if your plugins need updating. I would first try using a user role editor or some other work around to avoid misguided plugin updates, as plugin update notifications are by nature a good idea.
However, there’s always an exception, especially if you have multiple site Admins.
There’s nothing quite as frustrating as having your web design cruising along and working great.
… And then you open it up with one of those pesky browsers.
I won’t name any names, I would hate to offend any Internet Explorer lovers out there.
Here’s a nifty way to use the tools built in WordPress to pull browser specific CSS:
Whenever you upload a JPEG image into WordPress, it automatically compresses the image quality.
If you’re a photographer using WordPress as a portfolio website, or a graphic designer for that matter, you may not want WordPress compressing your image or you may want to do the compression yourself and keep WordPress’ hands off the image altogether.
On the flip side of that coin, WordPress’ 90% image compression default could be dialed down a little, thus, saving some bandwidth and increasing site speed.
No matter your reason for changing the WordPress JPEG image compression setting, here’s how:
PHP 5.4 is here!
Before you start thinking about upgrading your server, you should know if it’s worth doing it.
YES!
According to Nettuts+, “the latest enhancements significantly improve its elegance, while removing deprecated functionality, resulting in a dramatic optimization of the runtime (up to 20% more speed and memory usage reduction).”
20%?
I like the sound of that!
That could effect those on the verge of needing a server upgrade.
Here are a couple other things you may be happy to see:
