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Client instructions through the WordPress admin

So I currently have a client that – no offense to anyone, I swear it – cannot seem to handle instructions to save his life. I’ve written two PDF documents, as well as one in Word format, as well as multiple phone conversations, and having an “Active Collab” type area where your discussions are stored for future reference – and finally emails. However, I still find myself repeatedly giving him instructions, because if it’s not...

Showing Post Titles Within the Category Listing

I had an interesting dilemma over the weekend. Someone sent me a comp to code out (PSD->WordPress), which isn’t anything shocking since I do that a lot. What the dilemma was: in the sidebar, they wanted a category listing. However they wanted only the category listing for the category page you were on. So, say you’re in the “Dogs” category… they wanted the sidebar to have “Dogs” (the current category name) at he top, and...

Setting Up Virtual Hosts on MAMP

Typically I do most of my work on my computer in a localhost environment. Makes for much faster editing – I can change the file on my computer and changes are immediately seen on the “site” locally (the alternative would be edit, upload, wait, reload page, and repeat). Now, on my PC, I used to run a neat little program called XAMPP to put Apache, PHP and MySQL on my computer and turn it into...

Auto-Create Page associated Widgets

So here’s the idea: I’ve had many clients in the past who wanted to have page-specific widgetized sidebars. Now, I’ve covered this before, but one thing has always gotten me: the fact that you have to write a lot of bloated code to get it to work. It seems like you should be able to pull the post slugs into some kind of array, and have the widgets auto-create themselves with a small bit of...