Posts by: Lisa
WordPress SEO – the Post Title
The one thing you have instant control over is the post title – and, usefully, this can make a huge difference, far out of proportion to any time and effort spent in other SEO directions.
Fatal Error – Cannot modify header information
You’ve been hacking around in WordPress and you get… Fatal Error – Cannot modify header information – headers already sent … Why? Very simply, because the script has output something (… ie. printed it to your browser) before trying to execute a PHP header(“…”) statement – which just isn’t allowed with PHP. Often, it’s a [...]
WordPress – Display Random Posts
So you want to display a random list of posts, maybe in a sidebar widget… One way to do it is to use the query_posts() function, but this isn’t always the best…
WordPress Theme Frameworks
Since the arrival of WordPress 2.7, the true framework is based on the concept of parent/child WordPress themes. A child theme is dependent on its parent – here, the framework – for its template files and functions, it’s not going work without it.
JQuery, Cufon and WordPress
Just at the moment the best font replacement technique around is cufón – so how to get this technique into your WordPress theme design?
Multiple WordPress Queries – Duplicates
You’ve got 2,3,4… custom post queries on a page and you need to get some control over duplicates – it looks unprofessional if your theme keeps showing the same stuff. Let’s take the example of displaying separately posts from 2 different categories – but if a post is in both categories, not duplicated across the [...]
WordPress, Twitter and URL-shortening
You’re producing a WordPress theme, or plugin, that is related to Twitter and for obvious reasons you want to include url-shortening functionality… How’s it, generally, done? Just the briefest snippet of PHP, this example for is.gd:- function shorten_url($url) { $request = 'http://is.gd/api.php?longurl=' . $url; return @file_get_contents($request); }
WordPress Custom Category Archives
Note, we’re talking here about different category archive pages – not having a post page customised according to the category that post is in…. There’s 2 ways of doing this – first, the simple way, for more minor changes to the overall theme template, you can use the is_category function:
WordPress Twitter Integration
Publicity, relationship-building, just plain keeping in touch – Twitter offers it all and the art is to integrate your tweeting into your blogging, if that doesn’t sound too salacious. Here’s a few scattered suggestions on the subject. First up, to begin at the beginning, reply to @’s – I know it’s absolutely bleedin’ obvious, but [...]
WordPress Themes Help
Running your own WordPress is a big deal now, lots of people want to get in on the action. We get about 50-80 email requests a week for help with installing and customising free themes (ours and others) – so, simple fact is, if we replied and worked through them all, we wouldn’t have a [...]
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