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Bloody Antlers posted:I've been looking for a plugin that allows my Wordpress posts to have a 'Story Highlights' widget like CNN has. Best way to do this would be to write a Custom Field, one of the more powerful ways Wordpress is extensible. http://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Fields
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Thirteenth Step posted:I have a quick question. Is there a way that I can my last wordpress post on a regular webpage? You could just call the wordpress posts loop and restrict the results to the latest post ( &posts_per_page=1 ). mcsuede fucked around with this message at Aug 29, 2010 around 18:33 |
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Gyshall posted:I've used Wordpress as a blogging platform before, but never as a CMS. What I'm interested in doing is setting up a small, three or four page site for a side business I have. I'd like to have it as simple as possible (no need for extra blogroll links or individual posts - just pages with a blurb for each service offered) and a simple JQuery slider for showcasing the different pages. Honestly I'd just use Starkers, code the design up yourself, and use Nivo slider. I would have said just make a TwentyTen child theme but the way they used Featured Images in TwentyTen really fucks up Nivo slider's default way of working.
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| # ¿ Sep 1, 2010 04:52 |
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tonelok posted:I never looked at any widgets, but Custom Fields + this widget would do exactly what Bloody Antlers wanted, without having to modify any code in the sidebars: drat, that's pretty slick.
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| # ¿ Sep 2, 2010 23:48 |
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tonelok posted:
It's an amazing achievement for Automatic, Matt has to be running around smiling right now. Microsoft in the last year had already done a bunch of Wordpress specific things (themes, plugins, heavier integration with Live) so it's not a HUGE shock but it's still an extremely significant moment for Wordpress. It really shows how authoritative an open source project can become when it's dev team is managed well and public contribution is heavily encouraged and vetted. It's also a huge win for GPL, and that's probably the most surprising part of this relationship.
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| # ¿ Oct 2, 2010 14:39 |
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gwar3k1 posted:Thanks, I'll look at both methods. The Genesis framework also just released a system for managing widget logic that is super clean and functionally similar to the ease of using the 3.0 menu system (developed by WooThemes). I would go out on a limb and guess that the Genesis widget system makes it into core at some point.
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| # ¿ Oct 2, 2010 14:41 |
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Isn't buddypress becoming a core plugin? I really wish they'd get all that business sorted out, I've tried every forums solution for Wordpress there is and they all blow.
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| # ¿ Oct 5, 2010 03:11 |
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Abel Wingnut posted:This is something I have yet to understand and have seen a lot of. Where are all these editable .php files? I've honestly looked through the entire dashboard and can't find anything. The only things in 'Themes' are Widgets, Menus, Extras, Typekit Fonts, and Edit CSS--none of which have anything to do with .php files. Appearance, Edit. Or just edit them locally and upload to your server, that's what I do most of the time. The Wordpress backend GUI editor is really poor* compared to using something like Notepad++. Dreamweaver CS5 actually supports Wordpress now too if you're so inclined. *Seriously they need to do something about this. How hard is it to keep formatting and have syntax highlighting?
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| # ¿ Oct 9, 2010 17:03 |
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tonelok posted:Just out of curiousity, what did you not like about SimplePress? I couldn't find an example of it running live that I was impressed by, as shallow as that is. I've tabled the projects I had in mind that had forums for the time being, sort of hoping a Core solution is figured out while I pursue the million other ideas I'm working on.
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| # ¿ Oct 9, 2010 17:05 |
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I'm also looking forward to the fact (hopefully) that once it's core it'll play nicer with multiuser installs.
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| # ¿ Oct 10, 2010 01:21 |
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That's...that's not really how wordpressMU works. It's for entirely separate blogs. Any particular reason you're trying to use MU instead of just having authors and showing author posts on the author page and all posts on the main page, with any posts to a particular category shown on a category post page?
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| # ¿ Oct 13, 2010 01:16 |
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wwb posted:So, we've got a few wordpress blogs strewn about the net. Looking to unify the hosting scenario, looking at running on IIS7 rather than something *NIX because we know IIS/Windows very well and know gently caress all about managing *NIX boxes. Is this a horribly bad idea? http://www.microsoft.com/web/wordpress/
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| # ¿ Oct 14, 2010 04:06 |
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There's a well regarded Events Calendar for sale on CodeCanyon. Not sure if it has what you're looking for but it's worth asking the author. Not quite sure I get the point of Post Formats in 3.1...seems like a functionality that already exists, just prepackaged somewhat in a Tumblr fashion? I really feel like they have a lot of work to do with custom post types and custom taxonomies before they're really useful to the non-programmer wordpress user. mcsuede fucked around with this message at Oct 19, 2010 around 02:57 |
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Try this plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins...ate-thumbnails/
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| # ¿ Nov 13, 2010 21:54 |
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Serfer posted:Thanks, I added some logic to the template to detect if it has a thumbnail, and if it doesn't, does it the old way, just have to teach the people in marketing how to use the featured image thing now (admittedly, a bit more complicated than the old way, but it's ok). Ah, I always code my themes to use the first image if no featured is set as featured.
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| # ¿ Nov 14, 2010 20:56 |
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Good for him. I appreciate that Matt hires the best of the community into Automattic and they in turn contribute so much back. It's an exceptionally unique and effective business model. The downside of course being that since the guy has three names, he's probably a serial killer or deranged celebrity assassin.
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| # ¿ Nov 23, 2010 00:19 |
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Whoever managed/designs your company website should design your company wordpress theme to match, only makes sense.
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| # ¿ Dec 3, 2010 00:55 |
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Question for those using Widget Logic: I'm wanting to show a particular widget on every subpage of a particular parent page (and on the parent), anyone have a string I could use for this? Hoping I don't have to make 18 billion widgets with is_page('x')...
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| # ¿ Dec 4, 2010 23:53 |
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? Just style up an html table. There's a bunch of plugins to pretty up tables but that's nothing you couldn't do on your own easily enough.
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| # ¿ Dec 5, 2010 23:38 |
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http://www.noupe.com/jquery/useful-...tml-tables.html Might be something here. Otherwise I swear I have seen an easy Ajax table plugin for WP somewhere...maybe CodeCanyon? mcsuede fucked around with this message at Dec 6, 2010 around 04:16 |
| # ¿ Dec 6, 2010 04:13 |
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Use Yoast's SEO for Wordpress it has XML sitemap submission (this is probably what you're forgetting) built in and all sorts of good stuff. Way better than All-In-One.
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| # ¿ Dec 14, 2010 01:51 |
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And get your client off GoDaddy, they're a terrible company and even worse host.
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| # ¿ Jan 20, 2011 01:58 |
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I'm a fan of https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/like-for-tags/ Read the description though, it's functionally different from most Like plugins. What specifically are you trying to do?
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| # ¿ May 15, 2011 15:12 |
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I loving hate "easy" hosting. 1and1, fatcow, etc...just give me a raw cpanel, add your host-specific stuff and the get the gently caress out of the way. It's one of the reasons I've moved a lot of clients over to HostGator.
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| # ¿ May 17, 2011 02:41 |
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jackpot posted:I've got someone who wants to replace her current (html) site with a wordpress site. Obviously you want to do this with as little downtime as possible, so should she (I say "she" but I'm sure I'm the one who'll end up doing the work) install wordpress in some random folder (site.com/testsite), get all the pages (contact, about us, etc) working, then just go into the WP prefs and change what directory everything points to (from site.com/testsite to site.com/)? Is that how it's usually done? I used to do the export thing, building offsite but it's a bitch so now I build live in a subdirectory and just repoint at the end. Plus you should always install Wordpress in a subdirectory anyway as exploit spiders look for site.com/wp/wp-login.php not site.com/randomname/wp-login.php
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| # ¿ May 21, 2011 22:00 |
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Iron Squid posted:Is there any kind of GUI for working with WP themes? Its a lot easier for me to visualize something if I am moving around an object than to edit a .css file. I'm guessing the answer is "no" but I thought I'd ask. Welcome to the frustration of all web design, ever.
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| # ¿ Jun 21, 2011 02:32 |
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Holy crap Tweet Blender looks amazing and solves a ton of things for me, brilliant thanks!
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| # ¿ Aug 31, 2011 04:12 |
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Here's a quick list of plugins I like for one reason or another (and in no particular order), in case it helps someone: W3 Total Cache Admin Flush W3TC Cache CloudFlare (in combination with the CloudFlare service, obviously) WP Smush.it OR CW Image Optimizer (Linux server only, uses littleutils) WP-DBManager Akismet Use Google Libraries Google Analytics for WordPress ServerBuddy Simple Image Size Shadowbox JS WordPress SEO WP Original source Redirection Photo Galleria MediaRSS Clean Notifications Bulk Change Attachment Parent SEO Slugs SEO Friendly Images SEO Smart Links Yet Another Related Posts Plugin Reveal IDs Disqus WP-PageNavi WP Google Fonts
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| # ¿ Sep 10, 2011 19:25 |
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To be honest I've mostly given up on child themes unless you're using a really solid framework like Genesis or WooThemes or Obox or Thesis. Making child themes for some off the shelf theme from themeforest or whatever is a waste of time as they rarely update the parent them and if they do, you can just fix the whatever minor issues crop up on your own. The whole parent/child system needs a lot of work to actually be as useful as they intend. I don't see it happening.
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| # ¿ Sep 18, 2011 16:03 |
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I am the only person who despises NextGEN Gallery? It's such a kludge.
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| # ¿ Oct 8, 2011 15:51 |
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az jan jananam posted:When themes offer SEO what are they really offering? How do they do the SEO they claim to do? They're saying the theme code is compliant with on-page SEO best practices. Semantic code, etc. It's not always true, do due diligence, but it's not like it's hard to do either as WordPress core is very search friendly anyway. Sometimes they're saying they have a custom backend for modifying your page titles and such but that's all best done in Yoast's WordPress SEO anyway.
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| # ¿ Oct 15, 2011 14:38 |
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A billion times better, one trillion times better if you have a functioning brain and can write your own descriptions.
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| # ¿ Oct 16, 2011 05:44 |
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Okay I'm having an issue trying to run a slider and a lazyload plugin. Here's the deal: slides in the slider that aren't the first slide aren't showing their images, as the lazyloader is hiding them and then not showing them when that slide switches to active. The slider is jquery and so was the lazyload plugin, so I switched to a mootools lazyload to see if that would solve it and I still had the issue. Surely someone out there has a lazyload solution working on a WordPress install that also has a slider?
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| # ¿ Oct 18, 2011 23:33 |
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You always want to resize your media for the situation, not try to resize it with markup. Doing it through the editor is fine.
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| # ¿ Oct 19, 2011 01:55 |
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Dumb question but have you set up permalinks to something like /%postname%/ or /%category%/%postname%/ ?
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| # ¿ Oct 28, 2011 21:50 |
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Freeze posted:Currently they're set to "/%sample-page%/" under Custom Structure. This is the same setting she uses on her other Wordpress sites apparently. I don't think /%sample-page%/ is a valid permalinks structure. Which is why you're getting redirected to Home. http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks Here are the valid structures: code:
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| # ¿ Oct 28, 2011 22:49 |
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That would do it. Having WP installed in a subdirectory like that is actually best practice. http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_W...s_Own_Directory quote:Using a pre-existing subdirectory install
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| # ¿ Oct 29, 2011 15:48 |
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So I've got a bit of a situation I'm hoping someone can help with. I'm working on a client's site that at some point in the past was transferred (badly) from wordpress.com to private hosting. The problem is that a bunch of the old posts still contain images that are externally hotlinked from the old wordpress.com site. Is there an easy way to scrape all those images, add them into the gallery, and relink? This plugin is supposed to do exactly what I'm looking for but it doesn't function correctly (isn't adding the media into the gallery and isn't relinking correctly). Any ideas? mcsuede fucked around with this message at Oct 30, 2011 around 17:25 |
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I have a situation where on a client blog the floating bar generated by Digg Digg isn't working at all. It's showing up, you just can't click on any of the social buttons. Yet, the buttons it generates after the post work fine. The floating bar is working on other client sites with very similar setups. Can anyone take a look at it and see if I'm missing something obvious? Let me know here and I'll contact you with the url.
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Plugin author UI standards really need to be improved and enforced but it would be an epic task. You'd need to get hundreds (thousands?) of people in the community to do the policing through some sort of multiple stage verification system. Not impossible, and needed, just epic. I also agree that they need to prune but there are some really good abandoned plugins still in the repository that would get dropped if they did a blanked drop of anything that hasn't been tested with 3.whatever. Lots of old, small plugins work just fine and are very simple as they predate the crazy UI bloat/premium plugin/plugin development as a means of backlink building phase we're in now. mcsuede fucked around with this message at Mar 19, 2012 around 21:38 |
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