Category: WordPress
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Eagerly awaiting Divi v4 WordPress Theme
As I type this, we’re just over 15 days from the newest incarnation of WordPress mega-theme, Divi – in the guise of Divi 4. It happens to be one my favourite themes for building new client websites. The reason I like is is the incredibly powerful and yet, super-easy to use editor – the Divi…
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First impressions of WordPress 4.3
As I type this into the text editor in WordPress 4.3, I’m wondering how to make a list of item included in the release. Menus in the customize menu – “Create your menu, update it, and assign it, all while live-previewing in the customizer.” Formatting Shortcuts – “Use asterisks to create lists and number signs…
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How to Turn Off Comments for all pages in WordPress
If you’re building your website in WordPress, you might want to consider turning off the comments for all your pages – if you have a blog, it’s OK to allow comments on posts, but pages tend to be YOUR CONTENT, and most often comments are not welcomed on pages.
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post-edit-toolbar v1.4.7 – quite evolved…
Post Edit Toolbar is a productivity plugin for WordPress – you need this plugin if you blog or write pages frequently.
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Moving from a dev/test WordPress install to a live environment
Migrating from one domain to another – or test to live environment – is fraught with problems in WordPress – info on how to get it done RELATIVELY easily.
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First plugin published yesterday: post edit toolbar is LIVE!
‘post-edit-toolbar’ became a WordPress Hosted plugin yesterday… YAY! http://wordpress.org/plugins/post-edit-toolbar/ This plugin would not have been possible without ‘page-edit-toolbar’ – and my funky way of working… in so much as, I get interrupted and come back to posts + drafts of post on a continual basis. I have to REALLY work hard to get a post…
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Soliloquy Lite Slider Test
Drag some images into the soliloquy slider – adjust the size of the slider to the same as the images (make sure all images are the same size for best results) – then use the shortcode provided by the plugin – drop the code into a post as I did below:
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W3 Total Cache – removing it without trashing your site
We had had cause to switch from a great caching plugin for WordPress, so another great cache option… the cache we’ve moved a few sites FROM – is W3 Total Cache – which as we said – is a good plugin. However, due to some conflict with another plugin we needed, the switch to WP…
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moving from test to a live environment with WordPress
After moving files from a test environment to live, still using the test environment, change the settings from http://dev.yourdomain.com to http://www.yourdomain.com However – this doesn’t fix everything – because there are HIGHLY likely to be references in pages or posts to images/media on the old test environment – these will STOP working when you drop…