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Customizing the WordPress Admin : WPNYC Meetup Recap

February 22, 2013 By Chrisdigital 3 Comments

Customizing the WordPress Admin : WPNYC Meetup Recap

Last Tuesday, on a drizzly February night, several scores of intrepid WordPress fans came out to the latest WordPress NYC meetup, “Customizing the WordPress Admin” hosted at New Work City. I have been rather busy in recent months and I found this latest subject rather serendipitous. Why you ask?… well, you may recall that last Summer’s WordCamp New York Meetup was jam-packed with good information and as an attendee, I couldn’t experience all of it. Needless to say, choosing which seminars to attend seemed like a series of terrible sacrifices. But, I was happy to learn that Helen Hou-Sandí (Director of User Interface Engineering at 10up) was doing a reprise of her talk that I missed last June…

Filed Under: WordPress Tagged With: #wpnyc, customizing WordPress themes, Recap, Using WordPress as CMS, WordPress CMS

Useful wordpress comment plugins

April 18, 2010 By Chrisdigital Leave a Comment

Useful wordpress comment plugins

Recently, I was looking into spicing up my comments section with plug-ins. I was inspired by the folks over at inkrebels.com and these posts in particular, “20 typical mistakes made by new bloggers and 8 types of posts that get maximum comments. I started looking for ways to make this blog more comment-friendly. I also […]

Filed Under: Bookmark Links Tagged With: WordPress, WordPress CMS, WordPress comments plugins, WordPress theme tip

Using WordPress custom fields to customize display

April 18, 2010 By Chrisdigital Leave a Comment

Using WordPress custom fields to customize display

Jeff Star over at Perishablepress.com produced a great tutorial using a custom image gallery as an example of how to use custom fields. This helped me visualize how to approach my bookmarks section of this blog. This tutorial combined with a trip over to the WordPress Codex section on custom fields, this entry from Smashing […]

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Excluding categories from your RSS feed

April 18, 2010 By Chrisdigital Leave a Comment

Excluding categories from your RSS feed

If you’re customizing WordPress, sometimes you’ll run into a case where you want to exclude a category from your RSS feed. For example – if you want to single out that category into it’s own feed and hide it from the main feed. Jaypee Habaradas over at Jaypeeonline.net has a simple tutorial that walks you […]

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Custom single.php templates for WordPress post categories

April 18, 2010 By Chrisdigital Leave a Comment

Custom single.php templates for WordPress post categories

Over at NathanRice.net Nathan covers different methods you can use to accomplish utilizing alternate customized single.php templates for WordPress post categories, including a plugin he developed. There’s no native way to present different categories of posts in a special way (only pages), except perhaps hacking the posts query, or doing show/hide with CSS or jQuery. […]

Filed Under: Bookmark Links Tagged With: WordPress, WordPress CMS, WordPress theme tip

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