Tag: wordpress
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Cool WordPress Child Theme Maker Plugin
Have you ever wanted (or tried) to create a WordPress child theme, but somehow could not get it to work? Perhaps you’re a little handy with code (CSS, HTML, PHP) but not with manually uploading files to your server. Or perhaps you just want a simple way of ensuring that you’re including the right files…
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Disable WordPress Page Comments by Default
It’s 2014, and WordPress is well into its 11th year of existence. It’s become the most widely-used Web site CMS (content-management system) in the world. So, why do “static” pages still accept user comments by default? Specifically, when you create a new page (a page, not a post) in WordPress, it allows users to add comments…
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Make Your WordPress Twenty Ten Theme Responsive
I know, I know…it’s 2014. WordPress.org has stopped updating the Twenty Ten theme. Most WordPress users have moved on to themes Twenty Twelve and higher. However, you may have well-designed child themes based on the old Twenty Ten theme, a fixed-width parent theme that, nonetheless, has a lot to like. It’s solid and easy to…
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How to Design for WordPress
Note: this article pertains to the self-hosted version of WordPress, available with most paid Web hosting and downloadable for free – not the WordPress.com version. By now, you’ve probably heard that WordPress runs about one-fifth of the world’s Web sites. You may even be familiar with how easy a WordPress-powered site is to manage. But…
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Automatic Updater Plugin for Self-Hosted WordPress Sites
Keeping your WordPress site’s backend (plugins, WordPress version, and themes) up to date can be a hassle, especially if you maintain numerous WordPress sites. For years, I wondered why WP doesn’t provide a dashboard option for automatic updating, configurable by update type (i.e., checkboxes for themes, plugins, and WordPress core software). As it turns out,…
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Curing the WordPress “White Screen of Death”
In a nutshell: try editing “functions.php”, in your active theme’s folder, to remove empty spaces from the bottom of the document. It worked for me. Allow me to share my experience with the infamous “WordPress White Screen of Death”. In four solid years of working with WordPress, I had somehow been fortunate enough never to…
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Five Reasons to Build Your Web Site in WordPress
You’ve probably heard a lot of buzz about WordPress. Many high-profile Web sites published with it (see www.adele.com for a recent example). But what is WordPress – and why should you use it to build your Web site? WordPress is a publishing platform that’s easily installed on most Web servers. If you buy hosting through…