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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 […]

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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. […]

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Filtering WordPress categories using hooks

April 10, 2010 By Chrisdigital Leave a Comment

Filtering WordPress categories using hooks

Ryan Marganti over at SoulSizzle.com runs through what WordPress hooks are, and how you might use them including some simple examples. He reviews WordPress filters, edits to your functions.php file, the get_terms hook, and where you might find out more references about hooks. This is a nice introduction for WordPress theme or plugin developer newbie. […]

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