If you have ever tried to use square brackets (e.g. [ and ]) in your posts it can be slightly frustrating when WordPress thinks that it’s a short code and tries to process it or simply remove it. The solution to this is simple! All you need to do is add the HTML code for…
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Review: WordPress All-in-one For Dummies
WordPress is now one of (if not the) biggest blogging platform on the web, with over 32.5 Million downloads of version 3.01 and over 20.32 Million WordPress blogs hosted on WordPress.com alone and an estimated 9.7 million active installations – we have an impressively large platform! I was recently sent a copy of WordPress All-in-one…
wp-cron and MultiSite = Headache
[ad name=”postsqrRight”] After making some changes a while ago to how I run the wp-cron on this blog I noticed some odd problems as scheduled posts weren’t being published. This was getting to be a rather frustrating so I decided to debug the problem once and for all and eventually came to the conclusion that…
How to: Use Pagination on posts and pages in WordPress
Pagination is when you have a post split into multiple pages which can be particularly useful when posts (or pages) get quite long and splitting the post into pages can help with page load times and be more user friendly when users read through those posts. This is a little known feature of WordPress but…
Easy WordPress Widget Builder
I had a bit of a dilemma today as I needed to create a widget to house the BT.com widget (which you can now see on the sidebar) and for this I decided the easiest way would be to knock up a standalone plugin for this. While looking into this I discovered a very handy little WordPress…
How to disable WordPress wp-cron
[ad name=”postsqrRight”]Recently I have been noticing that this blog has been eating its way through the servers ram like no bodies business, easily using more than 150mb before its automatically killed. By default the wp-cron.php is run every single time a page is loaded, this includes admin pages. This can lead if you have a…