Personally, I am sick and tired of the United States government meddling more and more in our lives. The movie and music industry is using our elected officials like puppets (muppets) and we are sitting idly by and letting it happen. Well, I signed the petition, and my voice will be heard next election. G.R.I.P. – Get Rid of Incumbent Politicians. If we really want to make changes, we have to get those that pander to big business out of office and let them know that we have the power to do it. After all, they are there to represent Read More…
If you are running a popular website that utilizes WordPress you may have been asking yourself how you can have the site perform better. Outside of the slew of plugins and functions you can use, you can use a CDN (Content Delivery Network) to speed things up a notch. A content delivery network is a slew of computers or servers located around the state, country, or wold that caches data for you. This can reduce latency by having content delivered to your reader from a location that may be closer to them than your hosting provider's server is.
The nice thing about running sites on WordPress is that you will never run out of things to try. It seems like there is always something new that can be done to better the experience of the reader or further enhance the site. Featured Images are a great way to show off your post, but what if you don't want the featured image displayed on every page of your paginated post/page? Well, welcome to the solution center! There is an easy way to accomplish this.
Have you ever wondered why that smiley face shows up on your WordPress site? The short answer is that WordPress Stats creates this smiley face and uses it for tracking. In other words, this smiley face is responsible for giving WordPress Stats the information about visitors to your site. Sorry, you can't get rid of it completely, but you can hide it very easily.
A friend of mine recently went through some issues with WordPress and the WYSIWYG editor. His theme's content width is 620px, but the editor is as wide as his screen. With that said, when he would create a post and insert pictures he would have to preview the post over and over to make sure things were falling into the right places. Fortunately, there is an easy fix for this.
Your friends spend most of their time on Facebook, so why not take advantage of that on your WordPress site? Adding a Facebook "Like" button to your WordPress theme is very easy to do. In this example, we will show you how to add a "Like" button to your posts by editing one file:
People have different needs for different things, and if your need is to display a simple RSS feed in your theme; there is an easy way to do it... without plugins. There are a lot of plugins out there for displaying an RSS feed, but many of them actually over complicate things. Believe it or not, you already have the ability to parse an RSS feed. Until recently, I had been utilizing RSSImport to accomplish my simple feed requirements, but the fewer plugins we run on our sites, the better.
For years now, I have been using TinyMCE for WordPress to enhance the editor with some new buttons. However, I only found myself typically using the "Next Page" button and never really touched any of the others. I also noticed that some of the new functionality in WordPress 3.1 wasn't present when using the plugin. In the interest of keeping the "Next Page" button and losing the plugin, you can add some simple code to your functions.php file.
If you have opened up your WordPress site up to user registrations, there are inevitably some things that you just don't want them to see. Unfortunately, by default, there is no way to accomplish this directly from the options within WordPress. Until this day comes, you can remove dashboard items by adding some simple code to your functions.php file.
If you take into consideration that WordPress is the most widely used blogging platform, it is confusing why they are still living in the past. I am referring to the usage of AIM, Jabber, and Yahoo in the user's profile. Currently, within WordPress, there is no way for you to modify these choices. However, with a few simple lines of code in our functions.php file, we can bring WordPress into the 21st century.
There are a lot of plugins running around that will let you embed videos and media into a post easily. The funny part about this is that WordPress has had the functionality to handle this all by itself since version 2.9. The functionality is powered by oEmbed and getting started is easy as pie.
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