This week Posterous announced it would be shutting it’s doors. This leaves many bloggers (including this one) looking for another solution. I had setup my personal site and a podcast site on Posterous for ease of use and simple publishing. Now, it’s time to move them back into WordPress (where they really should have been
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When time permits I’ve been working on another WordPress starter theme based on Bootstrap, the super awesome CSS and JS framework originally released by Twitter. I use it on everything so it was natural to convert our base starter theme to use Bootstrap. And of course it’s open source (fork it and make it better
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On most WordPress themes we develop the Facebook comment platform is used. Some like it because it’s social… Others like it because it’s the best way to keep comment spam out. At 48Web, we’ve made it the default comment system in our WordPress Bootstrap Starter Theme. When I got down to implementing Facebook comments in
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We used to write custom functions to return these values until we discovered you can pass get_permalink a function that will return the ID. Examples.. Get Permalink By Page Name Get Permalink By Page Slug Note On Hierarchical Pages and The Slug If you have a page hierarchy you will have to pass the full
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How to query multiple custom taxonomies for WordPress custom types.
This is for those of you hunting for the Cheatin’ uh? WordPress error when developing custom post types. It’s most likely an issue with what you named a custom taxonomy that you intend to attach to a custom post type. In our case we had… This is a frustrating error because you simply get the
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Our latest project was a WordPress E-commerce store selling printable baby shower games.
We have started expanding our WordPress services overseas – which is great but it’s surprisingly difficult to get paid without getting gouged. Luckily Dwolla is working on it. Today, Dwolla posted some graphics today on how their rates compare to using debit / credit cards. Here’s what it looks like compared to PayPal for the average cost
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What’s the best forum plugin for WordPress? We like Simple:Press, BuddyPress, and bbPress.
WordPress 3.0.5 Security Release