February 23, 2012

WP Modder App Now Available on Android Devices

WordPress Tutorials Now Available on Android Devices

The WP Modder mobile app is now available in the Android Marketplace. Check it out. Now more people can read and watch our WordPress tutorials and information while in the bathroom! Why Did We Focus on Android? Because we love you. As you may know, our app has been available for iOS devices since early [...]

How to Create Your Own WordPress Shortcodes Using a Plugin

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I recently wrote a couple other tutorials about WordPress Shortcodes, what they are and how to use them in Widgets. This WordPress tutorial will show you how to create your own Shortcodes. The traditional method of creating Shortcodes includes hand coding them inside your theme’s functions.php file. I’m going to show you an easier way [...]

Speed Up Your WordPress Workflow – Create Reusable Post Templates

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How to Assure Content Consistency from your Authors and Yourself A few days ago I found myself reviewing a series of draft posts written by three different authors for a project I’m working on. I was checking these posts for technical errors like broken links, images, etc. but I was also checking for consistency in [...]

How to Use WordPress Shortcodes in Widgets

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I use several plugins on a regular basis that provide shortcodes. If you don’t know what shortcodes are or how they can be used, please read this tutorial first. If you are familiar with shortcodes and want to know how to use them in a Widget, read on.

How to Hide Pages in Your WordPress Navigation Menu

I made a tutorial over at AdamWWarner.com and included a video. Unfortunately, in the video I directed people here to watch it….whoops. It’s over here folks! Sorry about that…

WordPress Frameworks, Parent Themes, and Child Themes…oh my!

I’ve seen a bit of discussion popping up lately on why calling a parent theme a framework really isn’t correct. This is especially important with new framework releases like RichWP. A framework is not a parent theme. I just finished reading a post by Justin Tadlock explaining the differences between WordPress theme frameworks, parent themes, [...]

What is the best WordPress Plugin for Making a Personal Connection with Your Visitors?

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Not long ago I moved this site to a new domain and in the process axed a lot of custom code and plugins I had been using for almost three years. I was frustrated with the bloat of the site and wanted to start fresh. During that process I deleted a plugin that I had [...]

How to Post to your WordPress Site Directly from Yahoo! Mail

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An interesting thing happened while I was checking my Yahoo! Mail this morning. A little notification popped up telling me that I had an extra feature named “Applications” and asked if I would like to see the “Gallery”. So I had a look and it appears that Yahoo! has integrated some applications in the their [...]

How to Change Your WordPress Theme Without Losing Your Widgets (or your composure)

If you’re a regular reader of WPM, you may have noticed that I’ve changed the look and feel of the site recently. While changing themes, I ran into a Widgets issue that I had forgotten about. Sometimes when changing themes, the new theme you’ve chosen won’t display your Widgets properly. This is kind of a [...]

Do you want to help guide the development of my latest project?

About a week ago I shared a tidbit of information concerning my web development secret. To my delight, it was very well received and there is genuine excitement about it. As a big thank you to all who read this and have visited the project page, I would like to bring you in on some [...]