Category WordPress

February 6, 2010 - 1 comment

Quick: 1 Fantastic Way to Block Spam on a Wordpress Blog

ThisIsInspired has been getting plugged with spam galore. Granted, we have Akismet installed and it prevents and sorts most of the spam that comes our way — but there’s an even more root way to prevent spammers from sending their junk in the first place.

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November 8, 2009 - No comments

10+ (Almost) Essential WordPress Plugins

I’ve installed WordPress for a lot of people and each time there are a few plugins that always get installed — sort of by default, you could say. If I install a blog, these are ‘part of the package’ that I install and configure right after WordPress itself. I use these all on my own blogs as well — including This.Is.Inspired.

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November 4, 2009 - No comments

Add Custom Content for Your Blog’s Index Page

Most of the time we want our index page to the flashiest page on our site. A while ago I wanted to put a dynamic slideshow and special copy on my home page that wouldn’t show up on the rest of the site (and oversized, 2009-trendy intro header sentences written in first-person don’t count). It’s easy enough to do with plain ol’ CSS and HTML — even with the bulk of simple CMSs — but might be a bit more of a hassle with WordPress.

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November 3, 2009 - No comments

Start Using WordPress Attachments Now

Check it out: How often have you wanted to add an attachment for a specific post in WordPress? This little snippet of PHP will let you do just that. It loads attachments into an array ($args), and then lists them (foreach...) with their respective titles (the_title).

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