Tag: wordpress
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WP_Query pagination problems? Here’s a hack
It happens every time I use WP_Query. I get a beautiful-looking custom WP_Query. Then I try to add pagination and everything goes to hell. I’ve spent hours looking up solutions. Every time. Nine times out of ten, they don’t work. And for no discernible reason. Here’s a hack that worked for me, and is mostly… (read…
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Display WordPress Custom Post Types by Meta Value
This is going to be a developer-centric post. Anyone who isn’t familiar with WordPress development, custom post types and taxonomies and/or WP_Query can probably skip this one. I recently developed a site that uses a plugin that I developed to allow them to list all the products that they manufacture and distribute. The plugin uses… (read…
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Theme Frameworks
What’s the next big thing in themes right now? Theme frameworks. Everyone is doing it. WooThemes has their own core framework, StudioPress has Genesis, now MojoThemes has partnered with Themify to use that as their own in-house framework. Plus there’s themes that can be used as frameworks all over the place, from Builder to Justin… (read…
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Multiple loops, post formats, and content types in a single home page template
Wow. That title is a mouthful. And given the improbable combination of different content types, I’m actually somewhat surprised that I did, in fact, pull off just that. In working on a client site for a Christian ministry in the Democratic Republic of Ghana, I set out today to create this: What we have here… (read…
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New gig
As of today, I have a new gig. The longer story is that things have been slow in the web design front. My going theory is that the industry — especially given the economy; that great excuse we’ve been using for everything from health care to what store we shop at — is moving toward…
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Jaded
Mark’s blog (my blogging buddy for postaday/postaweek) got over 1,000 pageviews on his blogging buddy post which was featured on Freshly Pressed (the front page of WordPress.com). I’d like to be excited for him, but having seen this sort of meteoric rise in traffic on a single post in the past (one that’s actually not…
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WordPress isn’t a commercial success…wait, what?
Read this. Then come back. It’s okay, I’ll wait. WordPress.com Blogs Garnered 23 Billion Pageviews in 2010 It’s the last paragraph the bugs me. The five-year-old company may be experiencing remarkable growth, but it has yet to become a commercial success. The startup reportedly makes around $1 million per month from premium and hosting services,…
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Daily Post…well, not really…
In an effort to get more people blogging more frequently, our pals at WordPress have launched a new campaign called DailyPost. The challenge is simple, post every day (or at least once a week) in 2011. Because I like torturing myself with ridiculous rules and projects, I am hereby signing up. However, I’m not even…
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How I fixed the “cannot redeclare _checkactive_widgets()” error in WordPress child themes
So, I had a problem. For a while I’ve noticed a whole bunch of code being tacked on to my functions.php file. I’ve had no idea where it came from since I certainly didn’t write it, so I generally just removed it when I saw it. Then I noticed this weird php error when I… (read…