Allow End Users to Add Images to Your Gallery

A common question I’ve seen on the WP forums – as well as other places – is the idea of allowing people to post images to your WordPress site. I’ve actually had two different clients of mine also request this feature: one wanted the images to be posted to a “showcase gallery,” while the other wanted commenters to leave images in the comments section when they contributed to discussions. Although I don’t really recommend this,...

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Make WordPress search more useful

So, we all know it. Most times, the WordPress default search stuff kinda sucks. Someone pointed out to me that 2.6 or 2.7 started searching Page content as well as post content, but in times past it wasn’t like that – it would only search the post content. However, this is a little post on how to make the search stuff a little more useful and less annoying.

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Making child categories recognize parent displays

As I’ve mentioned in this post, this code is old. It’s been brought to my attention over the last few months that it has issues with newer versions of WordPress. it works fine for 2.0.x-2.7.x, but you shouldn’t be running those versions, and apparently it breaks down with 2.8.x+. The known issues i’ve been made aware of thus far: The RSS feed is damaged/nonfunctional. If you are using Custom fields, they will cease to work....

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How to reset your ZenCart Password

I am notorious for this. In the past week, I’ve needed to reset my ZenCart password on 4 different sites, because I’ve lost or forgotten them. ZenCart isn’t quite as easy as WordPress when it comes to this. You’d think it would be – in WordPress, all you have to do is log into phpMyAdmin, browse your users table, find the admin and edit the password (making sure you save it as MD5) and that’s...

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