Author Archives: Michael

Easily re-size images and generate post thumbnails

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Michael

PostImage plug-in to re-size and re-scale images and thumbnails for Wordpress using timthumb. Continue reading →

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Excerpt For WordPress Pages

Posted on June 27, 2010 by Michael

One thing that repeatedly annoys me when attempting to use Wordpress as a CMS is the lack of an excerpt field on the Page editor. Happily, it only takes 10 seconds to fix. Continue reading →

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Image Lazy Loader for WordPress

Posted on January 14, 2010 by Michael

Lazy loading flattens the spike caused on the initial loading of pages that contain lots of images and removes a few server hits in an attempt to get a page displayed as quickly as possible and improve response times across the site. Continue reading →

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FrontPage Slideshow Plug-In For WordPress

Posted on August 1, 2009 by Michael

JoomlaWorks’ Frontpage Slideshow is one of the best commercial featured post slideshows available which unfortunately doesn’t support Wordpress. This plug-in allows you to easily insert a slideshow into any template. Continue reading →

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Category Filtering

Posted on July 17, 2009 by Michael

Sometimes you need to return posts, or records from custom tables, that are in multiple categories using either an AND or OR search. This generic function shows how. Continue reading →

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Fixing Counterize

Posted on July 15, 2009 by Michael

Counterize is a fairly popular plug-in which provides traffic reports from within Wordpress. Unfortunately it contains serious bugs which may affect the performance of your site. Continue reading →

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Linking to Internal Posts

Posted on July 14, 2009 by Michael

One of the most fustrating things for Wordpress content managers is linking to other posts or pages within the system. A simple shortcode plug-in helps solve the problem. Continue reading →

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Selectively Include Javascript Files

Posted on July 13, 2009 by Michael

The solution to minimise the overhead of scripts is to only load them when strictly required by the page content. Unfortunately Wordpress makes that a challenging exercise. Continue reading →

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Disappearing Custom Post Data

Posted on July 8, 2009 by Michael

If you use a plug-in or template code to place custom fields on the post or page editor screen, changes to Wordpress may result in your custom data being deleted or lost. Continue reading →

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Counting Search Results

Posted on July 1, 2009 by Michael

These days, most people expect to see the total number of items in a list of search results, and yet most themes don’t provide any feedback on the number of matched posts. Continue reading →

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