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Best of WordPress.tv – Vol. 1
I think it’s high time I launched a new feature here on WPTeach. In addition to being one of the organizers of WordCamp Toronto and WordCamp Developers Toronto, I’ve had the opportunity this year alone to speak at WordCamps in Victoria BC, Atlanta Ga and in a couple of week the inaugural Buffalo NY WordCamp, [...]
WordCamp Columbus – Template Hierarchy Slides
I’m currently in Columbus Ohio at WordCamp Columbus…Just finished my presentation on Template Hierarchy, and the slides from that presentation can be found below. Template hierarchy -WordCamp Columbus View more PowerPoint from Al Davis
Add a pricing table to your WordPress site
We’ve all seen those websites that have that good looking pricing tables on them and wondered how much work it would take to get one like that on our sites. The good news is, it doesn’t take much work at all thanks to the aptly named plugin, WordPress Pricing Table Plugin.If you run a service-based [...]
Install WordPress locally on a Mac
Ever want to be able to play with WordPress and not worry about breaking your live site? Want to have an environment where you can try different things like plugins, themes, or that cool tutorial you found and want to work through? Well, then this is the post for you, (especially if you’re a Mac user). I’m [...]
Better theme file structures coming in WordPress 3.4
One of the new features coming with the release of WordPress 3.4 is an improved file structure for themes. Currently, all files live under the same directory, which can get a bit messy depending on how many templates, pages, etc. your theme has.As an example, currently your theme file structure looks like this /theme folder –page-contact.php –page-about.php [...]
How to recover your WordPress site after a plugin install or upgrade goes wrong
If you’ve been using WordPress for awhile now, chances are you have had to upgrade a plugin . ( If you haven’t, go check your site now, because you probably have some updates to perform). For the most part, things will go smoothly and all will be good in your (WordPress) world, but on occasion, you’ll run into an [...]
WordCamp Toronto: Developers
Now that it is listed as pending on the official WordCamp Central site, I guess it’s safe to write about it. I have applied and been tentatively approved (along with Craig Taylor and Andy McIlwain, my co-organizers for all things WordPress Toronto) to organize a different kind of WordCamp for Toronto in addition to the “regular” WordCamp. We [...]
Creating clean vertical menus with child pages in WordPress
Earlier this week, I was working on a site for a client who required for a left side nav bar. Now normally thats a no-brainer, but this particular menu had a number of child pages included in it. The client wanted the child pages to be visible on entry to the parent and to stay visible [...]
Remove the author and date info from posts
Here’s a quick tip for those who want to remove the meta content that shows up by default under your post titles. Here is what it looks like normally: By simply going to the style.css file for the theme you are using and adding this little bit of code at the end– [...]
Adding Google fonts to WordPress
As you start to develop sites for clients, one of the requests you’re going to encounter at one point or another is that the fonts used on the site be different from your everyday web safe choices like Helvetica and Times New Roman. There are some paid options you can use to accomplish this, and we will examine those [...]
