Plugin of the Week: Exclude Pages
One of my favorite things about WordPress 3 is the new navigation bar menu system. In the pre version 3 days, creating a navigation bar was kind of a pain in the butt. Now with WP 3’s menu system you...
View ArticleQuick Tip: Show all your (blogroll) links on any page or post
The Links library (sometimes called the blogroll) is an often overlooked feature of WordPress but it can become a powerful ally if you have want to setup a resources “library” of outgoing links to...
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Take “posts” to the next level with four WordPress plugins
One of the most confusing things for new WordPress users is understanding the difference between posts and pages. We won’t attempt to re-hash this subject as there are plenty of good references but...
View ArticleQuick Tip: changing old permalinks to new format while keeping the old URLs...
Let’s look at two plugins to help when your WordPress site URLs “go bad.” One of the things that people sometimes forget or neglect to change in a new WordPress settings is the permalink settings....
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Quick Tip: Link up up a post to page
Here’s a quick tip for the day you want to point one of your WordPress blog posts link up to a static page. There’s a plugin for that and it’s aptly called “Page Links To” by Mark Jaquith. We’ve been...
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Plugin of the Week: Search and Replace
We ran across an interesting problem when we transferred a WordPress site from Dreamhost to Bluehost. We actually did a database export/import with phpMyAdmin instead of using the XML export tool...
View ArticleMy favorite plugins of 2011 (so far)
A lot of people ask me what are my favorite WordPress plugins. So here they are in alphabetical order as of June. I’ve covered a lot of these plugins already but I might omitted a few of them and some...
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How to bulk edit post attributes/settings
Here are three tips and tricks in case you ever need to edit the attributes for a ton of posts or pages and avoid sitting there for hours manually adjusting each post. Tip one answers the question:...
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Visual WordPress Sitemap theme
If you’re building a WordPress site with over 20 pages, in addition to the “bulk post creator” plugin we mentioned a few days ago, you might want to try out the Slick Mapper WordPress theme by Luke...
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Converting posts to pages and vice versa with pType Converter
Have you ever accidentally created a post when you intended to create a page? Sure you could cut and paste the content again. No big deal right? There’s a more serious issue once you try to delete the...
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