Working with the Thematic framework for WordPress can be really fun, especially when you have the freedom to use filters on the meta information for posts to style your post date to look like a calendar.
What it looks like originally:
The original, unstyled post with the date and author showing … read more
After working with WordPress for several years and combing through countless “top 10″ WordPress plugin blog posts for plugins that A. Work well and B. Are updated regularly and don’t break with core upgrades (often), I’ve come up with my own cache of WordPress plugins I go back to on … read more
I just finished up a project that involved an impromptu introduction to WordPress MU – THE mother of all blog-related projects for Absolute (so far). In about one month, we set up 27 blog sites (one of which is a site to rule them all), developed 3 unique themes (with … read more
Today I found a nifty WordPress plugin that gently reminds new visitors to your blog to subscribe to your RSS feed. WP Greet Box shows up when visitors view a post, and even customizes the experience based on where the user arrived from (Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc.). You’ll probably notice … read more
So, how do you get your readers to explore the rest of your blog posts? Maybe you can offer them some more information about the post they’re on, as well as some convenient links to the post(s) immediately following or preceding the post they’re looking at. The magic code, which … read more
WordPress is a beast that I love to hate to love. When it works, it works very well, which is 99% of the time. But when it doesn’t, well, then I can usually plan on spending at least 4-6 hours researching why it’s not, and then (most of the time) … read more
I ran across a problem with the WordPress 2.5 plugin EventCalendar where the calendar worked fine, but when you click on a date in the calendar to view the Event post, it would return a Not Found error page. The fix for this is an unofficial patch. Basically two files … read more
After changing a WP blog to display a static home page, I was trying to find a way to also display Posts – the way they normally displayed on a default install – and make a link to that page. What I found instead was a nice, dynamic way to … read more
For some reason, the hacked code I had in place to make Gravatars show up in Posts and Comments mysteriously broke over the weekend, so after a bit of troubleshooting (and an attempt to guesstimate the issue that turned into a neat feature that makes the author’s email address link … read more
UPDATE: This hack has just recently broken. :( HOWEVER, I found a nifty plugin to replace it.
With thanks to Justin P., we’ve figured out a way to make the Gravatars plugin for WordPress (available at the gravatars website) display gravatars for BOTH Comments AND Posts. Not only that, but … read more
After upgrading the blog to version 2.3.1 and combing through posts like this to find good plugins, I’ve implemented a few on this site. The constant challenge of finding good 3rd party plugins for your WordPress blog is that some don’t play well with others and many just don’t work. … read more
But instead I’ve decided to put the finishing touches on the look of these blogs for Absolute Marketing Group. I’m going to apply the styles to the rest of the installations and then I should go to bed. I’m really tired.
Here’s a funny link just for kicks
Looks like I picked … read more
