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Ten Reasons to use the Slickr Flickr Slideshow and Gallery Plugin

March 4, 2010

Slickr Flickr WordPress Plugin I have just completed development of a WordPress plugin which takes tagged photos from Flickr and displays them as a slideshow or as a gallery. The plugin is called Slickr Flickr. Why Slickr Flickr Is The Best WordPress Flickr Plugin This is my somewhat biased opinion as to why it is [...]

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Adding Flickr Photos To Your WordPress Blog

February 15, 2010

Many Ways To Integrate Flickr With WordPress Over the last week, on behalf on a blogging client who has lots of pictures on Flickr, I have been researching different ways on integrating a series of Flickr photos into a WordPress blog. I was looking at two methods of displaying pictures: galleries and slideshows. A gallery [...]

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How To Choose Your WordPress Permalink Structure

January 24, 2010

WordPress Permalink Controversy – SEO versus Performance The choice of Permalink structure in WordPress has prompted a lot of discussion with the ‘experts’ falling into two camps; SEO experts and WordPress purists. Each group makes an logical assessment from their own perspective. Before we get into the differing views, some background on permalinks. What are [...]

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How to Prevent Post Titles Wrapping When Using Thesis Teasers

January 24, 2010

How To Shorten Post Titles that Wrap When Displayed as Teasers When displaying the post title in a teaser, Thesis displays the whole title. This can be too long for the line and hence wrap, which causes the adjacent teasers to be misaligned. This can make the make look a bit untidy: especially in the [...]

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Three Thesis Teasers A Row – Revisited and Improved

January 24, 2010

Problems With Three Teasers Per Row There are a number of issues with my original 3 teasers per row Thesis solution You need to hack(improve) a couple of core Thesis Files You need to hand craft the teaser/excerpt text precisely for the layout to be consistent I have been able to address the second of [...]

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How To Use Featured Content Gallery with Thesis and a Static Front Page

November 24, 2009

Thesis and Featured Content Gallery Does Not Work On A Static Front Page Out of the box there is a big problem when trying to use a Thesis Feature Box on a site with a static Home page where the Feature Box is populated using the Featured Content Gallery plugin. The text for the home [...]

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How To Hack Thesis To Have More Than Two Teasers Per Row

November 19, 2009

I have a client who has specific requirements regarding their home and archive pages: the home page needed to show 3 teasers with titles and thumbnails but no text; and the archive page needed to show a single teaser per row that included title, thumbnail and text excerpt. Out of the box, Thesis shows two [...]

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How To Avoid Pinging Every Time You Update A Post

November 4, 2009

Avoid being inadvertently banned by pinging services for too many updates by using the Ultimate Plugins Smart Update Pinger which only pings when a new post is published and not when an existing post is edited

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Why use the WordPress Thesis Theme?

November 4, 2009

Ten Reasons To Choose Thesis as Your WordPress Theme Thesis is not just any theme, it is a Theme Customization Framework. It has been designed to make it much easier to style WordPress to make your site look the way you want, and also to customize WordPress to add the features you want. 1. Good [...]

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