Live blogging is an important part of the web, as it helps provide people real-time updates when video may not be available online. One of the most common live-blogged events online is the WWDC. There are many products and services already available for liveblogging, but some can be difficult or may be lacking specific features. [...]
Using an FTP SFTP, SSH, or code editor application — like Coda or Notepad++, is always a better idea than using the built-in editor inside WordPress. The reason being is that WordPress doesn’t check for fatal errors in your code before saving it. It becomes very easy to lock yourself out of WordPress if you [...]
Have you ever needed to disable the infamous wpautop that WordPress automatically inserts into posts and pages? Here’s a quick snippet of code that lets you easily manage it using custom fields. Add the below code to your functions.php file. function disable_autop() { global $post; $disable_autop_var = get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘disable_autop’, TRUE); if ( !empty( $disable_autop_var ) [...]
I’m a big fan of Coda by Panic. I’m also a huge fan of WordPress. Together, Thorsten brings us this add-on for Coda, WordPress Syntax Mode for WordPress. One thing to note is that these do not get updated automatically, so when a new function comes out in a newer version of WordPress, the author [...]
WordPress uses a Status for posts and pages. Something that is often overlooked, is that there is a Pending Review status. Pending Review and Drafts Using the Draft and Pending Review statuses to help organize content is an easy, built-in way, to manage content. For example, you should use Pending Review as the state for [...]
Jonathan Dingman is a passionate blogger who loves writing about WordPress news, reporting on events, theme releases, awesome plugins, and more. He started using WordPress in 2004 and ran the first WordCamp NYC in 2008.