Insights by Justin Downey

November 2013

Locked Out of Your WordPress Site?

Locked yourself out of your own WordPress site? It happens to the best of us. Here’s how to get back in.

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November 2013

How to Update WordPress

Whether your company’s website is built on WordPress, Joomla, Drupal or any other CMS, just about everybody recommends you backup your database and files before you upgrade the core. That’s easier said than done, so let’s take a look at a few ways to backup all that precious stuff before you upgrade and possibly shoot yourself in …

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November 2013

What’s a Shortcode?

Shortcodes are a little WordPress magic that allow you to add really cool functionality without even needing to know any programming. There are essentially two kinds: [this-kind] and [this-kind] Stuff in between [/thiskind]. Place a shortcode inside your post or page editor and WordPress will replace it with the fancy code you don’t need to know. The difference? [this-kind] replaces …

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November 2013

Events Manager

Events Manager is a full-featured event registration plugin for WordPress based on the principles of flexibility, reliability and powerful features! Version 5 of the plugin now makes events and locations WordPress Custom Post Types, allowing for even more possibilities. Features (demo): Easy event registration (single day with start/end times) Recurring and long (multi-day) event registration …

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November 2013

Remove the WordPress Admin Bar

Introduced back in WordPress 3.1, the WordPress Admin Bar provides quick access to all the most common admin areas of the site, like creating a new post or page, moderating comments, etc. That said, it may just not go with your site’s design. Here’s how to remove that admin bar from the front-end for logged …

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October 2013

WordPress 3.7 Key Changes

WordPress.org today announced the debut of WordPress 3.7. This latest version is a feature and bug-fix release for self-hosted WordPress sites. Dubbed “Basie” in honor of American jazz pianist and composer Count Basie, WordPress 3.7 is the first release that uses the company’s new plugin-first development process that results in a much a quicker development …

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October 2013

“pageok” Blank Page Error

When you’re going live with a new website, often you’ll point the domain name DNS A-record to the IP address of the new hosting. After 4 to 24 hours, all you see is “pageok“. WTF? Don’t worry. It’s an easy fix. You just missed a step. Chances are, you’re using GoDaddy as your web host. …

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October 2013

Media & Online Storage (v3.6)

Using WordPress version 3.6 or before, you can upload files, PDFs, images and more to your Media Library. Adding Media and Linking to it: From the admin, click on Media >> Add New Click on ‘Select Files’ and browse for the file or files you would like to upload (you can also drag & drop) …

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September 2013

Uploading PDFs to Your WordPress Site

A quick guide to uploading one or several PDF documents to your WordPress Media Library.

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September 2013

Shortcode API

Introduced in WordPress 2.5 is the Shortcode API, a simple set of functions for creating macro codes for use in post content. For instance, the following shortcode (in the post/page content) would add a photo gallery into the page: [shortcode_gallery] It enables plugin developers to create special kinds of content (e.g. forms, content generators) that …

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September 2013

The Tried & True and Dazzling New

Just read an Ad Age article where the author, Jeff Swystun, argues that the reputation of being cool, cutting-edge and creative that digital agencies enjoy is all marketing and not actually the case. What’s worse, he’s right… For the article, Jeff spoke to six digital agencies from all over. He breaks his analysis into three …

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September 2013

JDM Digital Awarded Best Irving Agency

JDM Digital has been selected for the 2013 Best of Irving Award in the Digital Agency category by the Irving Award Program.

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