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By Ryan Olson

Learn how to build a Custom homepage for your WordPress Theme using Page Templates: Complete with a featured content slider, and customizable Widgets.

Read full article: http://www.tutorial9.net/web-tutorials/custom-wordpress-homepage-with-customizable-widgets/

http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2010/02/04/split-wordpress-content-into-multiple-sections/

WordPress “Press This” bookmarklet – grab bits of the web from any page & add them to your blog!

Press This is a bookmarklet, which is a neat word for a little app that runs in your browser and lets you grab text, images and videos from the web and post them to your WordPress.com blog. Use Press This to grab bits of the web from any page and add them to your blog!

View the rest: http://en.support.wordpress.com/press-this/

http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress

Adding a “Home” link to the Pages Menu in WordPress 2.9.2.

Example site: http://www.toryclark.com/

One simple change to the header.php file makes the Home page link show up in the Pages Menu. Add the number “1″ between the = symbol and the & symbol. See red-colored 1 in the second example below:

Find:
<?php wp_page_menu(‘show_home=&sort_column=menu_order, post_title&link_before=<span>&link_after=</span>’); ?>

Change to:
<?php wp_page_menu(‘show_home=1&sort_column=menu_order, post_title&link_before=<span>&link_after=</span>’); ?>

Lots of help from the WordPress codex: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_page_menu

WordPress 2.8.6 Security Release, announced November 12, 2009:

2.8.6 fixes two security problems that can be exploited by registered, logged in users who have posting privileges. If you have untrusted authors on your blog, upgrading to 2.8.6 is recommended.

The first problem is an XSS vulnerability in Press This discovered by Benjamin Flesch. The second problem, discovered by Dawid Golunski, is an issue with sanitizing uploaded file names that can be exploited in certain Apache configurations. Thanks to Benjamin and Dawid for finding and reporting these.

http://wordpress.org/development/2009/11/wordpress-2-8-6-security-release/

Setting a shipping rate that correctly displays in both the shopping cart AND the sidebar Widget!

Step 1:
WP e-Commerce Admin > Settings > Shipping:

• In the General Settings section, set Use Shipping to Yes and type ZIP code in the Base Zipcode/Postcode box.
• Then tick the check-box next to Flat Rate in the Shipping Modules section.
• Next, click the invisible “edit” link that’s located to the right of Flat Rate and make sure both of the Base Local boxes are empty.

Step 2:
WP e-Commerce Admin > Settings > Products:

• In the Edit Product column, in the Shipping Details section, type the shipping price in the Flat Rate Settings/Local Shipping Fee box.

WP e-Commerce shopping cart (v 3.7.5 RC3) for WordPress: Change “P&P” text to “S&H” for shipping & handling on product page.

- For WP e-Commerce shopping cart, version 3.7.5 RC3 (released Oct 20, 2009)
- File located at: wp-e-commerce/languages/EN_en.php
- Line 757:
Change: define(’TXT_WPSC_PNP’, ‘P&amp;P’);
To: define(’TXT_WPSC_PNP’, ‘S&amp;H’);

WP e-Commerce shopping cart (v3.7.4) for WordPress: Change “P&P” text to “S&H” for shipping & handling on product page.

- For WP e-Commerce shopping cart, version 3.7.4
- File located at: wp-e-commerce/languages/EN_en.php
- Line 749:
Change: define(‘TXT_WPSC_PNP’, ‘P&amp;P’);
To: define(‘TXT_WPSC_PNP’, ‘S&amp;H’);

Just upgraded to the following latest versions:

• WordPress 2.8.1
• cforms 10.6
• WP E-commerce 3.7

So far so good.