I had the strangest problem earlier. A client had reported that CSS code was showing on a category page, where only excerpts of a post should be showing. This is what it looked like: To cut a long story short, this issue was driving me insane, and I was frantically trying to pin down the [...]
By default, WordPress tends to load a lot of junk in the header. So, for example, if you “view source” when looking at a wordpress blog post, you’ll typically see the following load in the header: 1 2 3 4 5 6 <link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" title="RSD" href="" /> <link rel="wlwmanifest" type="application/wlwmanifest+xml" href="wlwmanifest.xml" /> <link rel=’index’ [...]
I’ve been playing around with Google Adsense a lot lately- in particular trying to find out where the ads are best placed on a WordPress Blog to maximise click through rates (CTR). I’ve been looking at some wordpress plugins, but I couldn’t find any that allowed me to display an ad unit after the first [...]
I’ve been working with manipulating WordPress Categories a lot recently, so I’m just going to quickly jot down a few notes, as I’m sure I’ll need these in the future. From what i’m aware, currently, WordPress doesn’t allow enough flexibility when it comes to manipulating categories, especially when it comes to identifying the difference between [...]
A lot of the files in WordPress are used as includes e.g Sidebar, header and footer. What if you want certain elements in those includes to appear just on the Homepage? I find myself needing that feature all the time. Example All you really need is one simple function. So for example, in your header [...]
We use WordPress a lot over here- not only for our own blog, but also our clients. Consequently, a lot of our developers, including myself, are becoming more and more familiar with the WordPress environment. In my opinion, WordPress is by far the best blogging platform available because it’s easy to use, works great, and [...]
I’ve had a few people ask me how they can link an image into a theme. Apparently they’re having problems finding the relevant path, no matter how many directories they go in and out of E.g “../../../images/mainimage.jpg” The Problem As a result, you’re left with something like this: It sounds like an unbelievably simple problem, [...]
I recently upgraded BrightCherry‘s wordpress version from 2.3 to 2.5. As soon as I did that I noticed our RSS feed stopped working. Hmm…strange. I Googled around and I couldn’t find much on the issue. I found one discussion over at WordPress Trac; where someone else had also experienced the same issue. However, I don’t [...]
BrightCherry has only opened the gates for one day and already we’ve received an email asking us what WordPress theme we use. I suspect this question will get asked again, so I thought i’d answer the question publically. For those that don’t know, WordPress is a very cool and popular blogging platform. I can proudly [...]
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