December 13th, 2011
The new WordPress version 3.3 has now been released. You should update your site as soon as possible since the new version includes a lot of great improvements.
WordPress 3.3. media uploader
One of the nicest updates is the new drag and drop media uploader. Other updates are:
- hover menus for the navigation (fly-out)
- new toolbar
- improved co-editing support
- Tumblr importer
- pointer tips for new features included in each update
- friendly welcome message for first-time users
- improved dashboard experience on iPad and other tablets
You can read more about the new features and updates and watch the release video at the WordPress development blog.
Tags: Automattic, WordPress
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December 11th, 2011
Recently I have been redesigning and updating some old websites I worked on earlier. On of these sites is www.carismahouse.fi. Carisma House is the company of MB life coach Liisa Salomaa. The site, that was designed by an advertising agency, is running on WordPress and uses the built-in commenting system to display feedback from clients.
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Tags: Liisa Salomaa, WordPress
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October 30th, 2011
This is a quick tip about how to get rid of the scrollbar from the WordPress category post editor page. Just add the following code to your theme’s functions.php. The above code adds some CSS into the WordPress header. The admin_head action event makes sure that the CSS only gets added to the admin area. [...]
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Tags: CSS, PHP, WordPress, WordPress Codex
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September 27th, 2011
I once worked on a project where we wanted to hide the admin menu for authors since it was considered too confusing. We decided to hide the admin menu for all users with the user level under 4. The authors could still access the “add new post” and “edit post” pages from custom links added [...]
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Tags: CSS, PHP, WordPress, WordPress Codex
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September 4th, 2011
A while ago I was asked to make it required for the authors of a WordPress site to enter at least a title and a category for every post. If the title field would be empty or no category would be chosen the author should not be able to publish the post. By making small [...]
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Tags: CSS, javascript, Josh Hartman, jQuery, PHP, plugin, WordPress, WordPress support forum
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July 14th, 2011
Nowadays it is almost expected that a modern website uses some sort of lightbox effect to display images. I used to use the very popular and great plugin Lightbox 2 by Rupert Morris but unfortunately the plugin is now discontinued and does cause some javascript conflicts in newer versions of WordPress. Rupert recommends the jQuery [...]
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Tags: Arne Franken, javascript, jQuery, plugin, Rupert Morris, Techotronic, WordPress
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June 6th, 2011
A time ago I worked with a project where I needed to get some data from a WordPress site to an external PHP page. I found out that all I had to do, was to add this little line of code to the PHP page and after that I could use all the WordPress functions [...]
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Tags: PHP, WordPress, WordPress Master
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March 31st, 2011
The web is full of different tutorials and plugins about how to add a Twitter feed to WordPress. Here are two methods that work and that I think are fairly simple. For the first method you only need your Twitter RSS feed url. You can the RSS link in the right sidebar of your Twitter [...]
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Tags: Automattic, plugin, Twitter, WordPress
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March 16th, 2011
One of the new features in WordPress 3.1 is the admin bar that is visible for logged in users. There are a lot of different ways to remove the admin bar that. Here is a method that I have found simple and effective. Just add the following to your functions.php file: You can read [...]
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Tags: Nilesh Shiragave, PHP, WordPress
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February 8th, 2011
This is a short and quick tutorial about enabling and styling the built-in menu builder in WordPress. Before the default menu builder was introduced I used to use a great plugin called WP Menubar and developed by http://www.blogsweek.com/about-the-author/. The plugin still has a lot of great features compared to the built-in version and you should definitely [...]
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Tags: BlogsWeek, CSS, PHP, plugin, WordPress, WordPress Codex, WordPress Themes Collection
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