I am working on a site that needs to target 7 specific markets with unique content. I was looking for a simple way to target content by geographic location.
GeoPlugin.com has a simple API that makes it easy to plug geo-targeted content into your application or site. I was able to get started by playing with their examples.
Passing an IP address to their API returns some great information Continue reading “Where You At? Adding Simple Geo-targeting to Your Site”
The default behavior for a WordPress post is to post by content publish date. On occasion, that order may need to be changed. Continue reading “Ordering WordPress Posts by Custom Field”
WordPress users:
If you enjoy some of the features of WordPress.com, but want to self-host, check out the new JetPack plugin for WordPress:
A great collection of features, designed to take the wordpress.com experience to your own site.
Have you tried it yet? How is it working for you?
On occasion, I want to customize my WordPress login screen with some of my project branding. This is especially important when I’m working on a site that manages subscribers. It’s also a nice little touch to add to client sites, to give the client a sense of ownership.
I was surprised at the number of web-tutorials that encourage editing “wp-admin/css/login.css”, or overwriting the WordPress logo image in wp-admin.
In practice, try to avoid ever editing an item inside the wp-admin and wp-includes folder in WordPress. Any changes made to those files, are likely to be overwritten the next time you upgrade WordPress.
The WordPress login screen changes can be made in your theme folder.
Here’s how I did it: Continue reading “Branding Your WordPress Login Screen”
I led a session at the recent Word Camp MSP event. This session was designed to help those who are just getting their feet wet with WordPress, understand what a plugin is, and how they can help their installation of WordPress.
It is important to note that not every plugin is appropriate for every installation. Each site’s goals and content need to be taken into consideration before extending WordPress. However, after bouncing the question around to a number of peers, these are some of the plugins that have bubbled to the surface.
Here are the plugins we featured:
What about you? What are your “Must-install” plugins on WordPress?
Others that came up (these were peer recommended, but I haven’t used all of them,)
This post includes some sample code, and web links for a presentation I put together for the Minneapolis/Saint Paul WordPress Users Group. The session is an introduction to creating a WordPress Plugin. This post is intended to be a place to find the resources and code used in the demonstration, but I will attempt to explain what it all means in this post. Continue reading “Creating a Basic WordPress Plugin”
