• Comments on a blog are a good thing however, lengthy comments can be a little overwhelming to other readers and experts argue that long comments may be detrimental to the Search Engine Optimization of your site.
    One of the posts on the Wishlist Member Insider forum mentioned two plugins, one of which I really liked – [...]

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  • Wordpress Membership Sites: Adding and Removing Profile Options Can Be Simple

    When creating sites for my clients, particularly Membership Sites in Wordpress, I find that we are often asked to add or remove specific profile fields.
    The main fields we are asked to remove are the contact methods of aim, yahoo and Google talk. Not many members use this methods and they clutter the information screen…
    Thanks to [...]

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  • Adding A Custom Top Menu To Your Wordpress Website

    We are often asked how to create a menu at the top of a wordpress website with specfic pages in it.  The menu doesn’t have to be dynamic – in fact, the requirement is to only display a select number of options.  Often, the requirement is to display a mix of links to Pages, Categories [...]

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  • Wishlist Member, iDevAffiliate, Paypal…

    edit: This article was edited on June 7, 2010 to include the iDevAffiliate Subscribe notify link in the examples.
    In February, I released Enhanced Paypal ShortCodes for Wordpress that enables website owners to easily add Paypal buttons on their pages.  Personally, I think it’s a great little plugin that saves me a heap of time because [...]

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  • Since I released my plugin Enhanced Paypal Shortcodes the other day, I have been “enhancing” it.  The one feature I did want to enable on Enhanced Paypal Shortcodes was the ability to use hosted buttons.  Whilst my motivation for creating the plugin initially was to help my clients who used iDevAffiliate and JROX JAM (which [...]

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  • Passing variables via URL to Wordpress Posts and Pages

    I was asked today if I knew of a way to pass a string to Wordpress – specifically to add a variable to an Aweber form.
    The main reason we want to pass a variable to an AWeber form is so we can capture an Affiliate name or ID for later tracking etc.  I’ve used this [...]

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  • A quick code to get ‘Simple Side Bar Navigation’ working
    <?php
    if ( !function_exists(‘dynamic_sidebar’) || !dynamic_sidebar(‘Simple Top Nav’) ) : ?>
    <?php wp_list_pages(‘title_li=&depth=2&sort_column=menu_order’); ?>
    <?php
    endif;
    ?>

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  • As a developer and support person, I am often called upon to help clients installed Paypal buttons on their wordpress website.
    Unfortunately, this generally entails editing the page or post in HTML and pasting the paypal form code in.  Once this is done, I have noticed that editing the content around the pasted paypal button can [...]

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  • Post tacken from Wordpress Development Blog (http://wordpress.org/development/2009/12/wordpress-2-9/)
    I want to make you mine, all the time… oh wait. Hello. I’m here on behalf of the entire WordPress development team and community to announce the immediate availability of WordPress version 2.9 “Carmen” named in honor of magical jazz vocalist Carmen McRae (whom we’ve added to our Last.fm [...]

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  • courtesy of Charly Leetham
    I was excited to read the announcement that Wordpress 2.9 has been released and is chock full on new enhancements that will make Wordpress even easier to use.
    I’ll review some of the features below however, I want to quickly discuss whether you should update your blog immediately to the new version (you [...]

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