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Sometimes it comes in handy to make the search form on a blog only return results from a single category. It’s actually quite simple. 1. Find the category ID First we need to find the ID of the category that we want to search. We can find that by going to Posts>Categories and hovering over […]
Read MoreUpdate: The plugin has gone through a number of revisions since I first published this post. See: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/latest-posts-by-author/ for the latest versions. The code posted below is from version 0.6. I just posted my first plugin to wordpress.org. It creates an unordered list of the most recent posts by a given author. It can be […]
Read MoreI ran across an issue today where a drop down menu was dropping behind a flash object rather than in front. It seems to be a pretty common problem, so I thought I’d share the solution. 1. Start with the embed code To make sure that the drop-down menu appears above the flash object, there’s […]
Read MoreIntroduced in WordPress 2.5, shortcodes make it easy to include pieces of code or content in multiple places across your site without having to repeatedly copy and paste. Also, if you need to go back and make adjustments, with shortcodes you don’t need to make the adjustment on every page, you just edit the shortcode […]
Read MoreI got a pleasant surprise today when I looked up my Google pagerank. It appears they’ve updated their ranks and this site went from a 0 to a 3. Not bad for 3 weeks. It looks like putting in the time and effort actually leads to some visible results. The results are not stunning by […]
Read MoreThis post is about adding the custom header functionality to a WordPress theme. If you were looking for existing themes that support custom headers, I suggest you try the WordPress free themes directory. Since version 2.1, WordPress has allowed custom headers to be added to themes. I don’t really have a use for it on […]
Read MoreDefault Sizes By default, WordPress has four sizes that you can choose from when displaying your images. They are: Thumbnail (150×150) Medium (300×300) Large (1024×1024) Full Size (Whatever the image dimensions are) That’s great that they give us choices, but what if we want a different size? I really wanted my images to be the […]
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