WordPress isn't exactly Google when it comes to searching. The system is long overdue an overhaul, but while we wait for the never-arriving necessity you can still get much more out of your WordPress searches. Today a programmer client asked me something that I thought [...]
From time to time, as a web programmer you come across things that deviate from the norm. This is certainly one of them - adding an excerpt box to WordPress Pages. As you probably already know if you stumbled across this article, this feature already [...]
If, like me, you've had the necessity to redirect WordPress tag pages to another page or pages for SEO reasons, you might have found a number of different methods to do this. It's actually a relatively simple process, but it's also one that's essential to [...]
WordPress errors can be extremely frustrating at times, but here's a little fix that should help those that are getting 403 server errors on WordPress sites. If you've seen the 403 internal server error You don't have permission to access / on this server and [...]
As a web programmer, I'm often asked to fix the problems that others have, but when I see problems appearing on sites I've had a hand in, I'm infinitely more concerned. This is exactly what happened recently, when I custom post type I had provided [...]
I've recently come across a slight problem with one of my clients whereby they wanted the RSS feed widget to open all incoming links in a new window. And why wouldn't they? Especially if they're external RSS feeds that are being parsed. We could have [...]
Most WordPress developers are familiar with Gravity Forms. It's a contact form plugin that allows you to easily build and publish your forms in just minutes, with the minimum of hassle. No mess, just quick and easy form-building. Select your fields, configure your options and [...]
How To Block Timthumb Hack Attempts Like many developers I manage a large number of WordPress sites, and in days gone by I'd use TimThumb to handle my images. Sadly, a few years back this became a huge problem since a TimThumb hack surfaced which [...]
Today was essentially my first experience of Gravity Forms, the WordPress forms plugin and it would be fair to say it came with its fair share of use niggles, but nothing that I couldn't overcome. Here's the three things I found that may help users [...]
A few people have asked me this question, so I thought I would share it with you all (yes, both of you). It's a tiny snippet that's not rocket science and you can find it if you look hard enough, but it's oh, so useful. [...]
Note: This method no longer works as intended due to changes in WordPress and Google maps. However, if you paste the iframe information from the Google maps page, WordPress automatically converts the frame to its own shortcode for you. At least, it's supposed to work [...]
