Tag: wordpress
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Why you should use pagebar for your blog
in wordpressYou may ask yourself “Why should I use pagebar, the newer versions of the WordPress default themes already contain page navigation.” Here an example that may convince you that pagebar is the better choice.
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New version of pagebar released (v2.60)
in wordpressAs you can see in the title the new version of pagebar is not version 3.0 that I anticipated to release by this summer. Procrastination at its best! 1. Instead I created another minor version with some features which are quite easy to implement. First there is a new default theme based on CSS3: To…
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WordPress: Publishing posts in the past
in wordpressThere may be situations where you want to publish a post with a date in the past. On first sight WordPress does not have such a function. If you look closer you find on the page “Add new post” in the metabox “Publish” the following entry: If you click on Edit a field appears in…
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WordPress: Shorten title
in wordpressA frequently asked question in WordPress forum is how to shorten the title of a post to a predefined number of characters and to append a “…”. The problem is solved with a few lines of code: add_filter( ‘the_title’, ‘short_title’ ); function short_title( $title ) { $chars = 20; if ( strlen( $title ) >…
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Remove “by author” post section from Genesis themes
in wordpressAs I already wrote in How-to remove the author from your Twenty-Ten posts most blogs do not need the section “by author” since there is only one author. By default most Genesis themes contain this section (e.g. the prose theme): Let’s see how-to remove the author’s name from the post info.
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WordPress: Remove links from the_category()
in wordpressThe standard way to display the categories a post belongs to is to use the function the_category, e.g, the call the_category(‘, ‘); will output: link, photo, regular, video As you see the categories are automatically linked to their respective category pages which in most cases is the style needed. Nevertheless there may be situations where…
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Stop supporting commercial themes and plugins for free!
in wordpressFor the last days there has been much excitement about Thesis. Fo those who don’t know: Thesis is one of the more popular commercial themes for WordPress. Despite the special problems with this theme and its author it’s a more general question if customers of commercial should be supported for free by the community or…