Get your church website ready for Easter!
Here’s a list of things to check on your church website before Easter:
The #1 Resource for Church Technology Creativity & New Thinking
by Eric Dye
Get your church website ready for Easter!
Here’s a list of things to check on your church website before Easter:
by Eric Dye
WordPress is always changing and rearranging … for the better.
I found this nice resource, “Top 10 WordPress Hacks of All Time“, the other day.
Here’s the list:
by Tom
Some people have their browser remember all of their passwords and autofill forms. Those of us that wear tinfoil hats, don’t :).
As such, we’re left navigating to a variety of URLs that’s aren’t particular easy to remember to fill out the login form. WordPress is no exception with it’s somewhat-inconveient /wp-login.php page.
Here’s an easy to way to improve that path usting .htaccess:
[Read more…] about Quick Tip: Create a More Accessible WordPress Login URL
by Eric Dye
One of the best WordPress resources, Digging Into WordPress, has made it’s 8th major update!
With nearly 450 full-color pages, this update brings you all you need to know about WordPress 3.1.
Here’s some of the new stuff:
[Read more…] about Digging Into WordPress 3.1 Update [Discount Code]
by Brian Notess
It’s no secret: I love WordPress.
I’ve been using it more and more as a content management system (rather than just a blogging platform) and the more I dig into some of the functions in WP, the more awesome it becomes.
For example: Conditional Tags.
They seem simple enough. About a dozen functions that check to see if a certain condition is true and return a Boolean (TRUE or FALSE).
For example is_admin() checks to see if your Dashboard panels are displayed. This function is frequently used when enqueuing scripts in WP. You don’t want to load tons of extra JavaScript or Stylesheets into your page if you’re viewing the Dashboard. Each millisecond of load time is precious. So do something like this.
[cc lang=”php”]
if ( !is_admin() ) {
//If the user is NOT (!) on the admin page (Dashboard).
wp_register_script(‘myscript’, get_bloginfo(‘stylesheet_directory’) . ‘/js/myscript.js’, array(‘jquery’) );
wp_enqueue_script(‘myscript’);
}
[/cc]
Enqueue your script.
This is probably the most common use of conditional tags I’ve seen.
Additionally these functions are used frequently to exclude content being indexed by Search Engines.
[cc lang=”php”]
if ( is_category(‘personal’)) {
}
[/cc]
Here’s we’re excluding the category named “personal” from being indexed.
Let’s look at a more complex (and hopefully very practical example).
Say you use WordPress to post events and headlines on your church site and/or blog. You might be getting to the point where you are posting so often, your events feed is getting cluttered and you want to create separate pages that have more specific posts on them.
We’ve set up a page template with a list of posts in a specific category being queried as follows:
[cc lang=”php”]
by Eric Dye
There are online communities and there are real-life communities.
You can build an online community in real-life, but can you build a real-life community, online?
The City sits down with Pastor Mark Driscoll and Pastor Jeff VanderStelt and talk about The Gospel and technology.