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 January 7, 2010

Latest Tweet without a Plugin

***UPDATE***
As of June 2013, this no longer works because of a change in the Twitter API. Sorry…

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 his code clean and up to date, so we went about doing it the old fashioned way: PHP. Read More →

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 December 21, 2009

5 Useful WordPress Template Tags

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. Read More →

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 November 13, 2009

Excluding Pages from WordPress Navigation

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. Read More →

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