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December 2015

JDM Frontend Admin Buttons

The WordPress admin bar gets in the way of basic frontend management of your WordPress site–especially if you have a fixed main navigation. JDM Frontend Admin Buttons (or “JDM FAB,” for short) is a simple and VERY light-weight WordPress plugin. The plugin removes the default WordPress admin bar and adds floating buttons that are …

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September 2015

Map Domains to Single WordPress Site

We had a client recently needing their separate, single-install of WordPress to have two domains mapped to it. After more Googling than we care to admit, we discovered the following relatively simple solution. First off, if you’re using WordPress Multisite, you don’t need to bother with this idea. This is simply for single-site installs of …

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June 2015

WordPress Easy Link to PDF

Linking to pages or posts in WordPress is easy but, linking to an uploaded PDF is cumbersome. Here’s a little script that allows you to link to uploaded PDFs (or other media) in the exact same way you would “link to existing content.” The “traditional” route for linking to an uploaded PDF is confusing, especially …

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April 2015

WordPress 4.2 Released

WordPress Version 4.2 has been released. The latest version comes with a ton of bug fixes, but also a few of the tried and true features have been completely revamped.

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April 2015

Disable WordPress Emojis

Frustrating as it may seem to most businesses, WordPress 4.2 came with an Emoji feature that allowed you to use the new Emojis in WordPress. Here’s how to disable the silly code it adds to your website’s <head> without using a plugin. So you’ve upgraded to the latest version of WordPress only to find some …

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January 2015

Handy Share Links Reference

Those pre-built widgets are cool and all, but they don’t style well. So, it’s a pretty common thing to custom-build your own social sharing buttons. For your coding pleasure, here’s a reference of some basic HTML and a little JavaScript to get you started. I’ve also thrown in a little PHP for those of you …

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January 2015

WP Importer

WordPress Importer is a plugin authored by WordPress for exporting and importing content (Posts, Pages, Comments, and Custom Post Types). It also will import things like images! Here’s a basic tutorial on how to export and import using WP Importer. Export Content First off, we need to export content from WordPress. To do this: Login …

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November 2014

Empty P-tags Shortcode Fix

It’s pretty common for custom WordPress shortcode functions to end up with a bunch of empty or dangling <p> and </p> tags. Rather than throwing the baby out with the bathwater (disabling wpautop), here’s a handy little function from AJ Clarke, WP Explorer Owner, that’ll clear your code right up. Clean Up WordPress Shortcode Functions …

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October 2014

3 Cool Things You Can Do with wp-config.php

One of the most important files in your WordPress installation is the wp-config.php file, located in the root of your installation. WordPress users might think it’s just a place for database configuration stuff, but there are a LOT of options there. Here are three cool things you can do to modify some of the core …

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July 2014

State of the Word(Press) 2013

In his State of the Word 2013 address, WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg reveals WordPress is now powering 18.9 per cent of the web, up 2.2 per cent points since last year. That and more data from a survey conducted to help focus future development of the WordPress core.

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April 2014

Login to WordPress with Email

Here’s an easy way to let your WordPress users login using their email address and password so they don’t have to remember their username. Just add this to your theme’s functions.php file.

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April 2014

Migrate WordPress to New Hosting

Use BackupBuddy to easily move a WordPress site to another domain or web host. It will export the database and ALL your files, the WordPress core, images, users–everything into an encrypted ZIP file. You just upload the ZIP file to the new host along with a little migration script it gives you (called “importbuddy.php), navigate to your new domain (yournewsite.com/importbuddy.php) and follow the wizard.

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