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Better Includes and Excludes for wp_list_pages 13 May 2010 | 11:00 am
The wp_list_pages() template tag forms the navigation core of most WordPress-powered websites, but it has a few issues: The exclude_tree parameter doesn’t work. If you include a list of page ID number...
WordPress Wednesday: How to Use paginate_comments_links Only When You Really Mean It 10 Mar 2010 | 09:00 pm
I was pretty happy when WordPress added paginate_comments_links because now I didn’t have to write a custom function to break blog comments into separate pages and give them a nice navigation (instead...
What Health Insurance Is and Isn’t 5 Mar 2010 | 07:20 pm
I’m not going to use this blog to stump for any particular side of the health care debate, but I want to clear up a misconception that’s been bothering me since the debate began. Many of the arguments...
WordPress Wednesday: Turn Any Shortcode into a Template Tag 4 Mar 2010 | 06:53 am
I previously discussed WordPress’s shortcode API, which allows you to turn any function into a shortcode that you can embed in the content of your pages or posts. Though the example I gave was for a f...
Survivor: Twitter – 3 Guidelines for Managing Who You Follow and Who Follows You 3 Mar 2010 | 11:49 am
A few weeks ago was a first for me: I stopped following someone on Twitter. The person in question is a webcomic artist who is well known for the drama that swirls around him. I started following him ...
CSS-Only Triangles with Hover Effects 19 Feb 2010 | 04:11 pm
I was giddy when I saw this post about creating CSS triangles on Jon Rohan’s blog and quickly realized two things: I am officially a CSS geek. Because the code relies on creating a div with a height a...
The Celebration of Love, Trust, Partnership, Tolerance and Tenacity 17 Feb 2010 | 07:53 am
About this time two years ago I was driving to the Portland, Oregon Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Days Saints to marry the love of my life when she called me on my cell phone. “We can...
RPG Saturday: The Serial One-Shot – Coraline 2: Electric Boogaloo 14 Feb 2010 | 08:38 pm
RPG Saturday is a weekly feature which discusses issues related to role-playing games using movies, television, etc. as examples. Note from Michael: It’s still Saturday for one hour (Pacific Time), so...
WordPress Wednesday: How to Transfer Your Plugin Data Using phpMyAdmin 11 Feb 2010 | 07:34 pm
I often use Stray Random Quotes for clients who want to display random testimonials (or quotes, natch) on their WordPress sites. Of course, I build their sites completely on my webspace to test them b...
Twitter Tuesday: Why to Not Be a Broadcaster (and How I’m Going to Stop) 10 Feb 2010 | 10:00 am
It’s easy to fall into the trap of treating Twitter like a P.A. system; you tell everyone about the articles you’re reading online, your latest blog post or even the food you just had for dinner and e...
