Tag: Wordpress
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Implement the WordPress Geolocation Plugin
For a while now WordPress has had apps across the mobile spectrum, and a great feature of these is geolocation – great, but who wants to know where I’m blogging from right? Well recently I had to build a blog for someone travelling around the world, and it quickly became apparent that using the data…
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WordPress: Load more posts on page scroll
Note: This article has been marked for a quality review and will soon be updated. Although I don’t visit archive pages very often, when I do I like it when I don’t have to trawl through pages and pages of 10 posts using tiny navigation buttons at the bottom of the page. A great way…
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Use PayPal for pay-per-post on WordPress.
Note: This article has been marked for a quality review and will soon be updated. As you may know I like WordPress – it’s a great platform for building websites on. As you may not know is, I like PayPal – it’s an easy to way to safely make quick payments online. Now you may…
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Screencast #4 – Creating a WordPress Theme – Part 2
In part two of this tutorial I show you how to finish off creating a basic WordPress theme, demonstrating the creation of a single post page as well as looking at how the commenting system works. Also in the video is how to create custom page templates and then apply them to different pages, as…
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Screencast #3 – Creating a WordPress Theme – Part 1
In part one of this tutorial I show you how to get started creating a WordPress theme, explaining all about the core files and how WordPress works. I’ll show you how to install WordPress and how to convert existing markup into a theme. In the tutorial I develop a theme named “Curiosity” – the markup…
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Publishing to WordPress from outside the admin panel
Note: This article has been marked for a quality review and will soon be updated. I recently finished up a theme for which I had to allow users to post to WordPress from outside the admin panel. Now at first you may wonder why anyone would want to do such a thing, but let me…
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Screencast #2 – Creating a Comment Preview in WP
So it’s been a while since I’ve done a screencast, but here it is, number 2! In this screencast I’ll show you how to create a comment preview section in WordPress which dynamically loads user information and updates as you type! For it I use the trusty jQuery library and a little bit of PHP…
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Squarespace is great, but…
Disclaimer: I think Squarespace provides an excellent service and I don’t hate them! So there has been a lot of hype recently surrounding the service Squarespace recently. And I read an article in .NET which was an interview with the founder, but when I finished reading I realized that I disagreed with some of the…
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Replacing the […] in WordPress
Some of you might be wondering what I mean by the […], well I am of course referring to the symbol generated by WordPress upon calling the function the_excerpt(). Now personally I really dislike the symbol which is generated as it often doesn’t fit with my design, and I always prefer to have an ellipse…