I use these repeatedly in training, and am posting them here so I don't lose them... How The World Wide Web works... How WordPress works... The Difference between Posts and Pages in WordPress All by the lovely Kristarella. … [Read more...]
ACF Repeater Fields – Adding Classes to List Items
In this quick tutorial I'm using Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) repeater fields to turn out an array of photos and text that link to PDF files (brochures)... and I'm using the genesis grid settings to lay them out nicely (by adding class="one-third" to the list items). The thing is, for the genesis grid to work you have to add a class of 'first' on the first list item in every row as well... so I need to set up a counter to count the list items and add a class to the first and every third ... … [Read more...]
How to Link Widget Titles Without a Plugin
So, in this game from time to time you get thrown a curveball. Some beautiful design feature that doesn't have a natural easy flowing way of working in WordPress. Here's the scenario. This design has lovely images that are also links, in the sidebar. The titles for said widget are overlaid on the images, and thus also need to be links. Now, in the interests of making things easy for the end user we're working with a fabulous little plugin called Image Widget. This offers a really easy … [Read more...]
When WordPress Goes to the Beach
One of the extraordinary things I've observed about the WordPress community in Australia is that it's more than just a group of people connected around this awesome software, they're actually a great big collection of friends. I would love to travel a bit more to other WP communities around the world just to see if what we have really is unique. I hope it isn't, I'd love to think there are other groups of WP users out there who get as much fun out of just hanging out over beers and pizza as … [Read more...]
Under the Hood of Self Hosting a WordPress Website
Here we are, the conversation continues... we talked the other day about deciding between wordpress.com and wordpress.org... and you are still following along.. you must have turned out to be one of those people like me for whom the lure of having control of your own website's destiny was too good an opportunity to pass up - welcome to the wonderful world of self hosting a WordPress website. This post has been snapped up, as has the whole series, by WP Tuts... I'll let you know when it's been … [Read more...]
Deciding Between WordPress.com and WordPress.org
This post has moved!!! The beginning with WordPress series has been snapped up by WPTuts and will be republished there, and all new posts will appear there, of course, I'll let you know when they're up so you can follow them over there too! Head over there to read the article! … [Read more...]
Moving away from multisite as a hosting platform.
It seemed like a good idea at the time... setting up a multisite install on a dedicated VPS on a reputable host and sitting back to relax and watch those hosting dollars flow in... And it was great, for a while... but getting bigger, adding more sites and users to the multisite install started to get really nerve wracking, and after a lot of thought and a deep breath, last month I started moving away from multisite, extricating all my sites from that network and putting them all into … [Read more...]
WordPress Template Hierarchy
If you've spent any time at all working with WordPress themes you'll have no doubt found yourself navigating the dark corridors of the WordPress Template Hierarchy. It took some time for me to get my head around which file to create when I'm making custom templates and the WordPress Codex has been invaluable in terms of figuring out what to put where. The Codex's diagram and my handy dandy little template code snippet that prints out which template I'm looking (below) at have been my 'go to' … [Read more...]
Backup Buddy has Removed Default Multisite Support
I have a number of small sites that I host for clients and friends, and for the last couple of years I've been hosting them on a WordPress multisite, just to keep things like updating simpler. And for a long time it worked really well. However, as clients got bigger, and their requirements got greater, well, running things on multisite started to get a little, well, sketchy and I've come to the conclusion that while you CAN run things like this, maybe there are times when you … [Read more...]
WordPress Theme and Plugin Licensing
There has been a whole lot of talk in the WordPress Community in recent months about WordPress theme and plugin licensing and I bet your pretty pink boots if you're making themes or sites for clients, it's something you've barely given a thought about. Because most of the issues in the news have centered around distribution and don't affect client work. However, if you're making things to distribute, you should think about it... because if you want to make some money out of your theme or your … [Read more...]