5 Useful WordPress Template Tags

Posted by 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 a few of the many tags that I find particularly useful. Click to read more…

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WordPress 101

Posted by 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.  Click to read more…

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Excluding Pages from WordPress Navigation

Posted by 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 for a client, there are pages that need to be linked internally, but not appear in the main navigation bar. Luckily, WordPress has made this really easy, and I just want to share the method I have been using. Click to read more…

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Customer Service from Best Buy

Posted by on October 14, 2009 with 4 Comments

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Here is the story:

I, like the brilliant guy that I am, dropped my iPhone headphones on the ground and rolled over one of the earbuds with my rolly-chair.  This happened a few weeks ago, but I decided last week I wanted to replace them before I went to Atlanta.  So the night before my flight, I went to Best Buy and bought myself a set of $40 Apple headphones for the iPhone.  I get home and open the box, and out falls a GROSS pair of USED IPOD headphones.  I checked the box again, and not only did it not say iPod, it didn’t say used either.  According to the box, I should have received a NEW pair of IPHONE headphones.  You can imagine my frustration. Click to read more…

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Two Column Lists Using HTML

Posted by on October 1, 2009 with 58 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 the top of the post editor).  Click to read more…

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Catalyst Atlanta 2009

Posted by on September 29, 2009 with 0 Comments

I am really excited to have to opportunity to go to Catalyst Atlanta this year.  I am going with work, and we have some pretty cool projects we will be working on while we are down there.  One of my primary jobs while I am in Atlanta will be to keep our newest website up to date.  CatalystCouch.com is an all in one resource center for conference goers, and also for those who wish they were at the conference.

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