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Widgetizing Any Page

Posted on September 15, 2011 at 10:01 am in
Gears

Most WordPress themes have widget-ready sidebars but did you know that you can also create widget-ready page templates? The process is identical to adding a widget area to a sidebar — except that you won’t be making changes to sidebar.php but to another template file. Let’s suppose you want to create a custom Page template…

Displaying the First Post Differently

Posted on September 14, 2011 at 4:46 pm in
Text

Want the first post your main posts page to show some content but only display the heading links for the second and subsequent posts? All you need to do is add a simple counter to The Loop in your theme’s index.php file and then use an if…else conditional to decide whether to display any post…

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Styling the First Post Differently

Posted on September 6, 2011 at 10:45 pm in
palette

You’ve got your WordPress site up and running with a theme that you like but one thing is missing. You want the first post on one of your pages to look a little different from the other posts. You know what template file needs changing and you know what The Loop looks like but you’re…

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A Better WordPress Search

Posted on August 31, 2011 at 3:52 pm in
Search

WordPress’ default site search is flawed. An empty search causes the site’s home page to be displayed. No error report. Nothing to indicate what has happened. Nada. Zilch. Nothing! The solution, however, is blindingly simple and merely involves a few fairly simple steps.

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eCookie Warning Plugin

Posted on August 9, 2011 at 4:33 pm in
cookies

There has been some concern raised about the new European Union regulations regarding cookies and how this might impact upon WordPress. One of the area where this legislation might impact upon WordPress sites is at the point of registration when a cookie is set on the new user’s machine. In order to address the problem,…

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