WordPress Tips
CSS3, WordPress, and Salsa Dancing [video]
Our team is frequently asked to speak at WordCamps on their area of expertise. Justin Kopepasah is our front-end developer and you can check out some of his recent work on Acute and Kepler, child themes for iThemes Builder. Here’s a video recap of Justin’s presentation at WordCamp Fayetteville in July–on CSS3, WordPress, and yes, Salsa Dancing: CSS3 provides an awesome landscape for speeding up web design with WordPress. Here you [...]
Sign up for the New Tips Newsletter From iThemes & PluginBuddy Support
BIG THANKS to our community who participated in the survey about providing great tips and tricks on iThemes & PluginBuddy tools. It was interesting how much consistency there was in what people wanted, and how they want to receive it. Please note – this is not a WordPress tips newsletter as much as it is a collection of the latest tips and tricks on how to use iThemes and PluginBuddy [...]
Automatically add content to your WordPress posts and pages
On many sites these days, you will find a standard text at the bottom of all WordPress posts. This is a great place to remind your readers about something you want them to do, a special promotion you are running, etc. For example, on all the iThemes posts, we have an email subscription box. There are several ways to add content to your post, without having to do so manually. [...]
How to Hide “Comments Are Closed” – Simple Solution
Have you ever wondered how to get rid of the “Comments are closed” statement that appears at the end of your content? This is one of those pesky features that drive some WordPress site owners crazy. There’s actually a super-simple solution. All you have to do is add the following to the END of your theme’s style.css file: If you are new to working with your style.css file, here are [...]
3 Reasons to use the_excerpt Tag
Most people are familiar with the tag “the_content” as it is one of the fundamental tags in WordPress. It is what goes and grabs the content (go figure). While the_content is an invaluable template tag, I think that there is some real value to the_excerpt that people should know about. So, what is the_excerpt? Thorough documentation can be found in the WordPress Codex, but I will give a brief overview. [...]
Upgrading WordPress on Multiple Sites, Good Practice
With the recent scare regarding a serious security vulnerability in pre-WP 2.8.4 , and the response from WordPress I found myself facing upgrading multiple sites that I own, or sites that I manage for others. In some cases, this was not an upgrade from 2.8.2 to 2.8.4 since I had neglected some sites for a while, or haven’t been able to upgrade yet, others were almost up to date. If, [...]
WP Q&A: When Should I Update WordPress?
Hello again everyone. This is Chris Jean, iThemes’ very own Code Monkey. Today, I’m going to do my best to help you prepare for and plan WordPress upgrades. When should a person upgrade their WordPress blog? Frankly, this is not an easy question to answer. The answer is completely dependent upon what type of site you are running, how important it is to ensure maximum uptime for the site, and [...]
5 Easy Ideas for Customizing Your WordPress Theme
Over the last year, we’ve set out to build the best, most easy-to-use WordPress themes on the planet. And with each theme we think through and include easy ways for you to customize your theme — tools that allow you to make it uniquely your own. So that after you’ve done some of these quick details, it has a look and feel that reflects you and your businesses’ distinct personality. [...]
A Baker’s Dozen of Search Engine Optimization Tips
This is a guest post from one of our outstanding support forum moderators Ben Kemp. This was originally written in response to a question on our forum, but we felt it justified more exposure. As a general rule, from an SEO perspective, bear in mind the most fundamental issue. Google loathes duplicate content! Google is trying to index and categorize the billions of pages on the web and calculate each [...]
2 Quick Ways to Backup Your WordPress Blog
After recently helping a client back up their WordPress blog, we thought we would provide a short post on “Why and How Should I Backup my WordPress Blog?” Frequent backups of your WordPress blog/website are integral to the long-term survival of your online presence. In an instant, your database could crash, you could accidentally remove tables or delete files from your server, or any number of things could go wrong [...]
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