Tag: wordpress
When to invest in a paid theme for a website?
It can be tricky to decide when it’s time to plunk down some hard, cold cash (or plastic) for a design. This will walk you through your design options so you can make an educated decision.
How to Make a Website From Scratch (MP3 & PDF)
Learn the way that websites work (and how to put one together).
If you just can’t get your head around the technical aspect, but you really need to get one online – this is the answer.
The number one question I receive from people is “how do I get my website set up?”
Even a quick search on Twitter shows the dire need for an answer:
Finally, an answer to the question “How do I make a website?”
I have put together the ultimate beginner’s guide to understanding how websites work and how to get one up and running in under 20 minutes.
This includes a 17 minute long MP3 and a PDF guide in which I walk you through:
Understanding how websites work
Explaining how the elements of a website come together
Understanding what open-source is
Step-by-step … Read More »
Setting up WordPress as a dictionary site
Updated on 12/05/2011
I just launched the WordPress Dictionary Plugin you asked for!
Check it out here:
Original Post:
Recently, I helped launch a website that served as a silly custom dictionary.
The concept was simple enough: create an online dictionary using only custom definitions. At first, I did some Google searches to see if there were any open-source dictionary apps. No such luck!
Then it occurred to me I should try WordPress. Searching the plugins, I realized that there was no dictionary plugin there either. That’s when I realized that I could set up WordPress itself to run the dictionary entirely.
Organization
I laid out a plan to make sure this would all run smoothly. I would use:
Posts: for definition entries
Custom Fields: to separate definitions, emphasis, etc. (made useful in combination with the “Get Custom Field Values” plugin)
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Using WordPress to create your page-based website
You’re a web designer, and you want to create a website – and like a lot of sites these days, it will be based around the pages, yet include a blog or news section. Congratulations! I am now going to give you a quick tutorial on making a page-based site using WordPress. This will make editing the pages easy, yet make it look like the blog is a separate installation.
If you have never touched PHP, roll up your sleeves and get ready to get dirty. I will try to make this relatively painless.
What you need!
WordPress Plugins (Optional):
All In One SEO Pack
Contact Form 7
NexGen Gallery
PageMash
WP Google Analytics
Programs
You’ll need to BYOP but here are the ones I use:
TextMate OR any text editor
Transmit OR any FTP program
Services
Tutorial: How to display short blog title in WordPress
As was recently pointed out to me by Andy in the comments, this post was quite out of date. I was fairly new to WordPress and had found a hacked way to modify the core of WordPress to return a short version of wp_title(); — but this is a method far from necessary and will always get removed when you update WordPress.
I opted to delete the out-of-date method, so that you only get the stuff that makes sense!
There is a simple script you can use to implement a short blog title without modifying the base WordPress code. Open up your functions.php file within your theme and add the following:
[php]function short_title() {
$title = get_the_title();
$count = strlen($title);
if ($count >= 25) {
$title = substr($title, 0, 25);
$title .= ‘…’;
}
echo $title;
}[/php]
You can now reference short_title(); anywhere within the … Read More »
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