Okay all, one of the most popular sets of postings on my site happens to be the “How to Create a WordPress Template or Theme,” which was actually written a loooong time ago, back when I was using version 2.0. (Or was it 1.5? I can’t even remember!) needless to say, that was back in 2006 – holy cow, almost three years ago! – and although a lot of that stuff still holds true, much...
read more ›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,...
read more ›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.
read more ›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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