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Latest Tweet without a Plugin

Posted by Matt on January 7, 2010 with 7 Comments

I earlier this week, one of our clients wanted a better solution to getting his latest tweet from Twitter than simply using an RSS widget it WordPress to grab the feed. We could have simply used a plugin, but this site is HUGE, and we didn’t want to depend on Joe Pluginmaker to keep [...]

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5 Useful WordPress Template Tags

Posted by Matt on December 21, 2009 with 0 Comments

Even if you work with the absolute best in premium WordPress themes, you will undoubtedly find that you need some additional/different functions than the theme has build it.  A great resource that is built in to WordPress is template tags.  A template tag is basically just a way to display information.  Below, I have compiled [...]

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WordPress 101

Posted by Matt on December 16, 2009 with 0 Comments

Everyone has to start somewhere. It really wasn’t all that long ago that I was starting out on WordPress, and didn’t know a thing.  Even worse was a few months in to it, when I knew just enough to be dangerous. 

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Excluding Pages from WordPress Navigation

Posted by Matt on November 13, 2009 with 2 Comments

I have been fortunate to work with an awesome programmer who makes our WordPress themes incredibly easy to use. But recently, as I have been working with themes from other comanies, and one of the major problems I have run into is not having a Nav Builder. On almost every major site I [...]

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Two Column Lists Using HTML

Posted by Matt on October 1, 2009 with 5 Comments

I know there are a million methods of breaking a list into two columns, but many of them involve additions to the CSS or new tables to be created.  But I like a different way.  The markup is all html, and it can easily be used in WordPress posts (using the view HTML tag at [...]

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Footer to Bottom

Posted by Matt on September 25, 2009 with 0 Comments

I was shown some code that I guess I have taken for granted for a long time.  I never thought about it, I just saw the affect and it looked right.  I could ask the simple question; where should the footer go?  You all know the answer I’m sure, which is the bottom of the [...]

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About Matt

I am a WordPress Developer for WebDesign.Com and iThemes. My beautiful wife Jessica and I live happily in Oklahoma with our Pit Bull Terrier named Dakota. Besides web, I am also a photographer. At one point, I was actually going to school for photography, but a good friend of mine convinced me that working for him was a much better idea. Read More...

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