WordPress does a great job facilitating interaction and feedback on blogs and websites. Most themes have built in comment fields for both posts and pages. If your theme doesn’t, here’s a quick tutorial on how to add them yourself. But just because you can enable comments doesn’t mean that you should. Sometimes disabling comments and [...]
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How to create an excerpt in WordPress 3.1
WordPress 3.1 saw a few changes in the way that certain menus and options are displayed in posts and pages. Former versions of WordPress simply included an excerpt field below the title and body areas of posts and pages by default but in 3.1 it disappeared! Excerpts aren’t something everyone needs or uses but for [...]
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WordPress 3.1 saw a change in the way that custom fields are displayed in posts and pages. Former versions of WordPress simply included this field below the title and body areas of posts and pages by default but with 3.1 they disappeared! At first I was concerned that the new version of WordPress simply didn’t [...]
Read the rest of this entry »How to change the URL on a WordPress site and get it working again with MySQL
I’ve been working on a WordPress site recently that started at one URL and then needed to be changed. Let’s pretend the site currently lives at oldurl.com and now it’s going to become newurl.com. The hosting and database will all remain the same, I’m just changing which URL is associated with the website. For old [...]
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Recently I wrote a tutorial on how to create and use a custom header in PayPal to make your payment pages more professional and match your site. That’s great for people who use their PayPal primarily for one business or purpose but what if you accept donations or payments for several different services? In my [...]
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Over the years I’ve built many websites, some for friends, family and many for myself. Blogs, just like this one, that over time grow and adapt to new subjects. Most of the time the original URL I chose lasts the entire life of the site but sometimes I decide to change the URL, move the [...]
Read the rest of this entry »How to edit WordPress system widgets
WordPress is very conducive to customization and code changes but one of the trickier things to alter are the system Widgets used in the sidebar. Some of the standard widgets included with a new install of WordPress are Archives, Calendar, Categories, Links, Meta, Pages, Recent Comments, Recent Posts, RSS and Search. Many times you can [...]
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