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WordPress: A Twitter widget that works

The other day I noticed a Twitter widget I had created to pull in the latest Tweets from a user’s timeline into a WordPress theme had stopped working. I found out that it was because Twitter had updated their timeline…
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  • Posted: Oct 19 2012
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WordPress – How to get the blog description in HTML format

Sometimes you may need to add a line break or a HTML tag to the blog description in WordPress to get it to do something other than just the plain tagline. Using the get_bloginfo(‘description’); function will pull that out, but…
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  • Posted: Oct 11 2012
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WordPress : How to have query search posts only

If you need to have your WordPress search only search posts for results, you can insert this code before the ‘if(have_posts()):’ line on search.php and it will do that for you. // search only posts global $wp_query; $args = array_merge(…
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  • Posted: Mar 08 2012
  • Tags: search posts, WordPress
  • Comments: 0

WordPress : TinyMCE text editor shortcuts

Some useful shortcuts for the TinyMCE editor in WordPress...
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  • Posted: Oct 03 2011
  • Comments: 2

Robotic curtain

Everyone should have one of these...
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  • Posted: Sep 25 2011
  • Comments: 0

Get your latest Tweet using the JSON timeline

There are a few ways in which I have seen to get the latets Tweet from Twitter to display on a site. The easiest solution I have found uses the JSON timeline of Tweets. In the example below, I have…
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  • Posted: Aug 31 2011
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WordPress : The proper way to create a home page template that isn’t the standard list of blog articles

A quick guide to correctly set WordPress up to have a custom home page template.
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  • Posted: Mar 27 2011
  • Tags: WordPress
  • Comments: 0

WordPress : Creating a Twitter Widget

A guide on how to create a fairly flexible Twitter widget for your site or themes you build.
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  • Posted: Dec 05 2010
  • Tags: WordPress
  • Comments: 15

WordPress : Redirecting to a random page

How to create a random redirect using the wp_redirect() function built into WordPress.
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  • Posted: Dec 05 2010
  • Tags: WordPress
  • Comments: 0

WordPress : Creating a menu of subpages from post ID of a child page

A step by step guide on how to create a menu of child pages by using the post ID of a child page.
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  • Posted: Dec 04 2010
  • Tags: WordPress
  • Comments: 1
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