WordPress Tutorials
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Prevent Posts in a Category From Displaying in WordPress’ RSS Feed
I recently posted a snippet which prevented posts in a given category from displaying in WordPress' main loop. I even went on to create my first WordPress plugin to accomplish the task via the WordPress control panel. The one task those snippets doesn't complete...
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Create a “Recent Posts” Module Outside of WordPress
I've never created a complete client website using WordPress, but many of those websites do have a WordPress blog to compliment the website. Oftentimes the client will want to list recent blog posts within the website, not within the WordPress shell. No problem --...
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WordPress Plugin: Remove Posts in Category From Homepage
Being a WordPress user for some time, I've always wanted to create a WordPress plugin but I've hesitated. I've not run into an issue that I couldn't find an existing plugin for, and the thought of maintenance on a WordPress plugin seemed daunting because...
![Prevent Posts in a Category From Displaying in WordPress’ Loop]()
Prevent Posts in a Category From Displaying in WordPress’ Loop
This code snippet has become a WordPress plugin! Categories are obviously a major "classification" utility for websites and blogs that use WordPress. Sometimes you want a category to represent more than just a basic post subject classification -- you may want a category of your blog...
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Disable WordPress autop
Back when I first started this blog, and in turn using WordPress, the most annoying part of blogging was WordPress' auto-formatting. WordPress would strip out custom attributes, mess with my DIV and paragraph structure, and just generally raise havoc. It bugged me so much that since...
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Force Login to View WordPress Blog Pages
I was recently working on a private / "closed" website that featured WordPress. User management is a must and content can only be seen if the user is logged in. I was shocked to find that WordPress didn't provide an option to accomplish this task. Luckily...
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Create a Dojo-Powered WordPress Website View
Yesterday I showed you WordPress' awesome JSON plugin named JSON API. Now that I can get my blog posts in JSON format, it's time to create an awesome AJAX'ed web app with that data. I've chosen to use the power of Dojo and Dijit to...
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WordPress JSON API Plugin
Ever since I moved to a mostly-JavaScript job, I've become more and more enamored with the simplicity and usefulness of JSON. Now I want everything available in JSON format, and when I encounter a service which doesn't provide a JSON API, I have a...
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Change Category Slug within WordPress
When I first started this blog, I set the category "slug" to "sugar." Why sugar? Because a lot of a good thing is candy; thus, a bunch of MooTools tutorials is as sweet as sugar. While I get a giggle out of calling my categories sugar...
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Fix WordPress CRONs on Media Temple (dv) Servers
When I switched from Dreamhost shared hosting to Media Temple (dv) server hosting, I had a hell of a time trying to figure out why CRONs weren't working correctly on the website. I had database backups being sent via CRON jobs so making sure CRONs...
