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What is Simple URLs? Simple URLs is a complete URL management plugin that takes advantage of custom post types and uses 301 redirects to achieve its goals. It allows you to track and shorten links; especially long, ugly affiliate links. It simply adds a new custom post type to your WordPress Admin menu, where you [...]
WordPress does not add custom post types to author archive pages by default. In fact, it doesn’t add pages as well. It only displays posts from the author in question. By manipulating the pre_get_posts action we can add any custom post type we want to the author archive pages. Adding Post Types Using pre_get_posts First [...]
During a recent redesign for a client, I needed to alter the default WordPress tag cloud widget to exclude a certain number of tags as well as include a custom taxonomy. There are plenty of ways of adding a custom widget, or hacking WordPress core files to achieve what I needed but that isn’t very [...]
What is jQuery Image Lazy Load? The jQuery image lazy load WordPress plugin uses a jQuery plugin called Lazy Load to delay the loading of images in (long) pages. Images below the fold (far down in the page) wont be loaded before the user scrolls down. When the user does scroll down the images fade-in [...]
What is Regenerate Thumbnails? Regenerate Thumbnails allows you to regenerate all thumbnails, individual thumbnails or specific multiple thumbnails for your WordPress image attachments. Wonderful if you’ve changed any of your thumbnail dimensions (via Settings -> Media) after previously uploading images or have added new image sizes via the add_image_size function. How to use the Regenerate [...]
What is the WP101 Tutorial Plugin? The WP101 Tutorial Plugin provides professional, HD-quality “WordPress 101″ video tutorials straight to your WordPress dashboard. It’s targeted towards WordPress designers, developers and consultants and has been expertly coded (to be lightweight and standards compliant) by WordPress lead developer, Mark Jaquith. It was created from the WP101 online video [...]
What is WordTwit Pro? WordTwit Pro is a premium WordPress plugin which aims to provide powerful Twitter features to your WordPress website. It allows you to auto-publish new posts to Twitter via a widget on the post/page editing screen. It supports multiple Twitter accounts, manual editing, scheduling with delay, recent/popular hashtags, Tweet log and more. [...]
Google is highlighting content creators in their search results and setting up your WordPress blog to make sure Google pulls and associates all the correct information is a fairly straight forward and simple process. The Authorship markup video above by Matt Cutts and Othar Hansson outlines how to connect content authors with their content using [...]
Many of our clients at Designpx are designers or web design agencies looking to get their layered Photoshop PSD designs converted into working WordPress-powered sites. And even more want PSD to Thesis, Genesis or WooThemes Canvas. So, we’re excited to announce our PSD to WordPress service. Some PSD to WordPress Facts Most PSD to WordPress [...]
If you haven’t already noticed, Designpx has had a bit of a facelift recently. Also, we are now fully transitioned to the .com version of our domain instead of .net. In this post I’d like to go over some of the changes we made and the reasons behind them. Why Move From .net to .com? [...]
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