It’s been a few years since I first launched sackclothstudios.com (my business site) and it was beginning to show it’s age. The newest post on the blog was over a year old and the site just needed a little love. I figured while I was at it, I might as well document the process.
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Update: there is also a WordPress function for redirects: wp_redirect() Sometimes when using WordPress you want to include a non-Wordpress page in your main navigation while still maintaining the simplicity of the wp_list_pages() function. I know there are plugins that do this type of thing, but many of them are just overkill. I just needed
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Update: Version 0.3 is now available. It has been 10 months to the day since I released Sanitary 0.1, a clean starting point for developing WordPress themes. An update is obviously overdue, so even though it will need to be updated again as soon as WordPress 3.0 comes out, I’m releasing Sanitary 0.2. It is
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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
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Update: 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
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Introduced 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
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This 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
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Default 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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