Working with the WordPress Dashboard Before you get to the graphic look of your site, let's do a little more administration to your site to set it up. Consider making your first plugin installation the Codex and Forum Searcher Plugin. It allows you to search both the WordPress … [Read more...] about Setting Up Your WordPress Site
WordPress Tips & Tricks
How to execute shortcodes inside custom fields
Tips and Tricks By default, WordPress do not allows shortcodes to be executed inside custom fields. If for some reason you need to be able to execute a shortcode inside a specific custom field, here is an easy way to do it. Just put this code into whatever page you are … [Read more...] about How to execute shortcodes inside custom fields
How to Create a Custom Slider
...Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love jQuery Austin WordPress Meetup Notes — 5/3/2011 Pat Ramsey lead tonight's excellent demonstration of how to create Content Sliders in WordPress. He addressed the issue some WordPress developers face when they want the plugin, or … [Read more...] about How to Create a Custom Slider
What is a WordPress Child Theme?
Austin WordPress Meetup Notes — 7/26/2010 Pat Ramsey, Founder of the Austin WordPress Meetup, lead another great session about applying Best Practices to Theming a WordPress site this evening. As July seems to have been the month we all focused on all the new features in … [Read more...] about What is a WordPress Child Theme?