Do you want to use the WP.me URL shortener, provided by WordPress.com? Easy to do. Install the WordPress.com Stats plugin, and the rest is magic. You’ll instantly be given the option to insert the wp.me shortlink into your posts. You will also be be able to use the “get shortlink” button on the post screen, …
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Want to add simple stats to your blog? Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, has a plugin called WordPress Stats. This plugin is simple and lets your track your visitors. It’s simple to install, does the job, and doesn’t add too much overhead when loading the page. Let’s dive in. First, go to Add New under …
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Over and over, I’ve found myself running into issues with WordPress where I want to give specific users control over specific areas of WordPress. Drupal 1.6 was just released and it has some killer Access Control System features, that really just blow WordPress out of the water. WordPress has good, but very basic, access control. …
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So what do you think of the new “admin bar” in the upcoming release of WordPress 3.1? Haven’t had a chance to play with it yet? You will soon. If you do like it, then go ahead and keep it. But for those that don’t want to keep it, we can thank Joost for posting …
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Here’s an easy tutorial on really making WordPress your own. It’s a simple quick and dirty function to update the WordPress logo/image on the wp-login.php page, to your own. [sourcecode]function wpvibe_login_logo() { echo ‘<style>.login { background-image: url(/your_top_header_background_gradient_here.png); background-repeat:repeat-x; } #login h1 a { background: url(/your_custom_logo_goes_here.png) top no-repeat; width:500px; margin-left:-90px; margin-top:-73px; }</style>’; } add_action(‘login_head’,’wpvibe_login_logo’);[/sourcecode] The above …
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There’s often a case where you want to exclude a specific category or multiple categories from your RSS feed. This way you can publish posts and if you don’t want them to go to your RSS subscribers, they won’t. First, here’s how you exclude a category from your RSS feed. [sourcecode]add_action(‘pre_get_posts’,’wpv_remove_cat’); function wpv_remove_cat() { if …
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I’ve recently started developing some more themes for myself, one for my personal site (jonathan.vc) and a new theme for one of my other blogs (ginside.com). I needed a framework that would easily allow me to build my site quickly, efficiently, and in a way that makes it easy to maintain long-term. I hadn’t used …
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In the last major release of WordPress, WordPress 3.0, a new function was slipped into the core. capital_p_dangit(). Most people don’t even think about how to spell WordPress, at least most of my non-techie friends don’t even think about it. They’ll spell it Wordpress or wordpress usually, but in fact, it’s actually WordPress. This small …
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The new WordPress Grunion Contact Form is a WordPress plugin released by Automattic. This plugin was originally released for WordPress.com, but also released open source and available for self-hosted WordPress sites as well. We currently use Gravity Forms here at WPVibe, but this plugin could give Gravity Forms a run for its money. Grunion, the …
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Subscribe to Comments Plugins
Offering your visitors a way to subscribe to comments is a great idea, so they can follow-up and stay in touch when they’ve left a comment. This way they don’t need to subscribe to the comments feed, which people rarely ever use. I’m going to walk you through two different plugins. Subscribe to Comments Reloaded …
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