28 Jul
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/
16 Jul
For example, if you were designing a page about Will Smith, a single query to Metaweb could get you rich metadata about him, an image, updates from his Facebook page, recent New York Times headlines…
The Metaweb WordPress plugin
http://www.metaweb.com/wordpress
The Metaweb plugin is a WordPress plugin that allows you to easily add Metaweb TopicBlocks to your blog posts directly from within WordPress. You can quickly add TopicBlocks to individual blog posts or have TopicBlocks automatically inserted whenever you use certain tags.
If you’d like to learn more about TopicBlocks, jump to the Metaweb TopicBlocks FAQ
Metaweb is a service that makes it dramatically easier for bloggers and site owners to aggregate content about a specific topic – like Tom Cruise, The Da Vinci Code, or San Francisco – and to surface related content in new and powerful ways.
Metaweb is organized around topics, or entities, which are unique, unambiguous concepts with their own URLs. In general, they are much more precise than keywords, and they carry a lot more information. Right now we catalog about 12M entities, in categories spanning movies, books, TV shows, celebrities, locations, companies, and more.
For each of these entities we collect rich metadata and links to quality content feeds around the web. And then we make that all available to you via our blogger tools and developer APIs.
This makes it much simpler for you to develop intelligent, content-rich sites and to keep your readers more engaged. For example, if you were designing a page about Will Smith, a single query to Metaweb could get you rich metadata about him, an image, updates from his Facebook page, recent New York Times headlines about him, a gallery of his movies from Netflix, links to his pages on Wikipedia and IMDb, and a list of related topics your users might want to explore.
30 Jun
One of the most commonly seen security tips around the WordPress-o-Sphere has got to be this:
Don’t display your WordPress version number publicly
Many WordPress developers often display the WordPress version in the source code. But having this information publicly available makes it easy for attackers to exploit known vulnerabilities on a particular WordPress version.
This sort of thinking is referred to as “security through obscurity,” and may or may not be an effective way to increase the overall security of your site.
Just place this single line into your theme’s functions.php file:
remove_action(‘wp_head’, ‘wp_generator’);
Original article: http://digwp.com/2009/07/remove-wordpress-version-number/
NOTE: This caused an admin login error after adding ddaccordion.js to ToryClark.com
8 Jun
Scenario: Client wants hypertext links to be white on only one of the Website’s pages, so they display nicely on the dark back ground. The hypertext links for the rest of the site are fuchsia, via CSS.
Problem: Adding hypertext to a WordPress page in Edit Page view, then changing it’s color to white (so it displays nicely on a dark back ground on the front-end of the site) makes it impossible to actually see when you’re trying to edit it in the Edit Page view. Unless you switch to HTML mode – which is a pain in the ass for the client.
Solution: WordPress Custom Fields just on that one page.
NOTE: This only works for a WordPress “page.”
Here’s exactly what I did:
1. Add the below PHP to the header.php file, anywhere between the <head> and </head> tags:
<?php if (is_page()) {
$css = get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘css’, true);
if (!empty($css)) { ?>
<style type=”text/css”>
<?php echo $css; ?>
</style>
<?php }
} ?>
2. Then, in the Custom Fields in your Edit Page view, add the following info:
In the “Name” field type: css
In the “Value” field type: a:link, a:visited {color: #FFFFFF;} a:hover, a:active {color: #FF00FF; text-decoration: underline;}
WordPress Custom Fields
3. Working examples:
8 Jun
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/
12 May
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
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