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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 4 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 have built [...]

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Two Column Lists Using HTML

Posted by Matt on October 1, 2009 with 19 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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Yeah, There’s a Plugin for That

Posted by Matt on September 3, 2009 with 3 Comments

We joke quite a bit here in the office about how many WordPress plugins there really are. Currently in the WordPress Repository, there are well over 6,000 plugins for download. Although I would not recommend all of them, there a tons of excellent plugins that can make your site do pretty much anything you want. [...]

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