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Here at Digging Into WordPress, we’ve attached thumbnail images to every single (non-link-style) post since day one. We started before WordPress 3.0 had the specific feature for thumbnails. We did it just by attaching a file path to the thumbnail image as a custom field. We clearly display each of those thumbnails in the design [...]
GPL Showdown
If you missed the Matt Mullenweg vs. Chris Pearson debate live debate today, this is my wrap up: Matt: Thesis is violating the law because it violates GPL. Chris: No it isn’t. Matt: Businesses can thrive under GPL. Chris: So? Matt: Why won’t you bring Thesis over to GPL? Chris: Because I would feel like [...]
GPL Showdown
If you missed the Matt Mullenweg vs. Chris Pearson debate live debate today, this is my wrap up: Matt: Thesis is violating the law because it violates GPL. Chris: No it isn’t. Matt: Businesses can thrive under GPL. Chris: So? Matt: Why won’t you bring Thesis over to GPL? Chris: Because I would feel like [...]
(Meta) Conversation on Frameworks
The discussion starter post last week about WordPress theme frameworks worked nicely. I really enjoyed the comment thread that took place so I thought I’d point it back out to people who may have missed that or didn’t see it fully developed. Specific thanks to Justin Tadlock and Nathan Rice for sharing their thoughts as [...]
The “Frameworks” Discussion
I’ve never been a big fan of “theme frameworks.” I quite like hacking up WordPress myself and making it do the things I want it to do. I feel like most theme frameworks have a ton of custom functions for you to “help” in doing that kind of stuff. For example, adding a block of [...]
Shortcode for Includes
One thing that WordPress doesn’t have the ability to do “out-of-the-box” is do includes, in the sense of including the content of one post into the content of another post directly in the post editor. For the umpteenth time around here, shortcodes to the rescue! This issue came up while my co-worker Tim at Wufoo [...]
WordPress Podcast: Digging into CSS Trickery & WordPress
I was on the WordPress Podcast with Joost De Valk talking about a whole bunch of things including WordPress 3.0 which was freshly out. Direct Link to Article — Permalink on DiWLike the article? Get the book! © 2010 Digging into WordPress | Permalink | Comments | Add to Delicious Categorized: Links | Tagged:
Moving a WordPress Site
I did a screencast where I took a site that was working on localhost and moved it up to a live domain name. This involved moving the files, moving the database, and altering some information in the database. This is a good thing to know how to do if you are just getting into WordPress [...]
Blogging in Markdown
WordPress defaults to a WYSIWYG editor when composing a new Post. Of course WYSIWYG is a bit of a misnomer. What you “get” when you publish that post is dependent on the template and the CSS in place in the theme. In fact, WordPress doesn’t even call it WYSIWYG, they call it the “Visual” editor. [...]
Joomla Beats WordPress?
Here are a few specific circumstances where elmalak feels that Jooma is better than WordPress. I understand some, disagree with others. I’m always interested in debates comparing different CMSs, but have never read anything that really nailed it. Largely I think people defend the one that they use the most and the one they feel [...]
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