WordPress can be a complex Content Management System, not necessarily in it’s size or function; but seeing a completed and fully customised WordPress can bear little resemblance to the original ‘vanilla’ installation. This is because WordPress can be customised to such a degree that it matches pretty much any requirement exactly; so as a Web [...]
404′s on Custom Post Type permalinks gets me every time! So, this is gonna be a short one to fix, but saves hours in time Googling solutions. Go to your permalink settings after you’ve created your custom post type. Choose Default as your choice. Save. Choose your previous setting as your choice. Save. Done. Why [...]
When developing WordPress themes, you can open a portion of your code for user-customisation on a Theme Options page. This is how it’s done. The basics of Theme Options is that you can create an options array to store a certain amount of data, then whilst developing your theme, you can account for these changes. [...]
WordPress SEO by Yoast is an SEO suite for your WordPress Installation. I’ve been using Yoast’s SEO Plugin on all websites I’ve made. It’s impressive Page Analysis tools allow me to write more relevant content. Yoast is the highly informative website of SEO Specialist Joost de Valk. Since I began using this plugin, the ‘Yoast’ [...]
I’ve built and uploaded three WordPress based websites this week, so at the moment I’m pretty ‘well-schooled’ in how to migrate from a local to live server. I had a curious error with the third. Somehow, it just wouldn’t display after uploading. Here’s my usual workflow: Upload Files to Server Export SQL Database Import SQL [...]
On my WordPress post view page, I wish to show posts in the same category as the currently selected post. My difficulty here was managing this to handle multiple categories, but also, a way to track which was the ‘category’ page that you viewed the page at. For example, a standard route though the website [...]
One of the reasons I decided to convert to WordPress is that I can now administer my website on the go. A cool little WordPress app for my Android phone will help me greatly in the updating department! I love the cool interface of the app and it makes updating seem so easy. They don’t [...]
I discovered Lubith a while back and really didn’t like it. Now, this is going to be a postive article but for you to understand how I got to this conclusion, I must explain. I first looked at Lubith with it’s GUI and thought, this is for amateur web masters who are not coders, those [...]
I’ve recently become a bit of a WordPress convert. Previously I’ve seen WordPress as a bit of a website ‘cop-out’ where you let something else do all the hard work, opting to code everything myself. In smaller projects, this was appropriate as WordPress wouldn’t necessarily be suitable for them. However, I’ve been involved in some [...]