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The first WordPress 2.7 maintenance release

By Austin On February 10, 2009 No Comments

Well, it has taken along time, but it’s official. WordPress.org has released a maintenance release of the very popular WordPress 2.7 to 2.7.1

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Jon Asked: How to add thumbnails above post on the THiCK theme

By Austin On February 10, 2009 11 Comments

I was asked by a reader:

I’m using the THiCK theme for my new design blog. I noticed you were able to add thumbnail images above your blog posts on the home page. What would I need to do to enable this on my blog?

Well Jon, this can be done very simple, since the theme is already using the Tim Thumb script.

What you will need to do is find in your index.php file, the second loop. Which you can find on line 40.

<?php query_posts('offset=1&showposts=' . get_option('woo_other_entries') . '&cat=-' . $GLOBALS['ex_asides']Click here to continue reading


WP Cult attending WordCamp Denver 2009

By Austin On February 9, 2009 2 Comments

It is official, today I purchased my ticket for WordCamp Denver! I as well as Jeana from Jeana Says, will be flying out to Colorado! Now all we need to do is find a place to stay..

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By Austin On February 9, 2009 No Comments


Plugin Review: WP Greet Box

By Austin On February 8, 2009 1 Comment

Yesterday I found and downloaded the WP Greet Box plugin from Omni Noggin. This plugin could be a very useful tool and keeping visitors from various sites, asking them to subscribe to your RSS feed.

A great feature of this plugin is the ability to allow or disallow a user to remove the banner if they so choose to. Another great example is the different icons and text that show up from where the user come from. For example if this post was to get tweeted by yourself or

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By Austin On February 7, 2009 No Comments


Tested: Twitip ID Plugin

By Austin On February 7, 2009 No Comments

There is a really neat plugin named Twitip-ID for WordPress. As you can see, if you have commented on this site I was using this plugin.

While it is still in beta testing I feel that it is a really nice plugin, plus it will automatically put the required field into your comments template without any editing. I choice to to manually input the field for custom css and styling.

This plugin is really awesome and allows for other to employ their Twitter ID for other to follow them, giving a little more incentive

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Los Angeles WordPress users

By Austin On February 6, 2009 2 Comments
Sunday Feb 8th, 09 :11am!

Sunday Feb 8th, 09 :11am!

Hey! Any WordPress users in the Los Angeles area? Well Jason Cosper of the LA WordPress user group announced a meet up at Philippe’s French Dip located in Downtown LA. For more info head over to the Yahoo Upcoming page.

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By Austin On February 5, 2009 No Comments


Beyond Twitter: Tweetsuite & Tweetbacks

By Austin On February 4, 2009 No Comments

Every one is aware of Twitter, I hope. Well there are many, many plugins for your WordPress that you can use. So I am not going to be like every one else and write a post with 3o twitter plugins for WordPress. I am just going to talk about one special plugin that is hitting the WP community.

Tweet Suite: a Twitter-WordPress integration plugin that includes the following features:

  • Server-side (no-JS or remote calls) TweetBacks
  • ReTweet-This buttons for each TweetBack
  • A digg-like Tweet-This Button
  • Automatic Tweeting of new posts
  • A Most-Tweeted Widget
  • A Recently-Tweeted Widget
  • A
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How to: Add any authors gravatar to their post

By Austin On February 4, 2009 No Comments

This is an easy one, just add one line to your single.php file where you would like the Gravatar to show up.

<?php echo get_avatar( get_the_author_id(), $size = '96', $default = '<path_to_url>' ); ?> Click here to continue reading


IconIcon.net

By Austin On February 3, 2009 No Comments


How to: Add a contact me via Skype™ button

By Austin On February 3, 2009 3 Comments

This little trick is really simple and easy. All you need to do is plug this line of code anywhere you would like to use the text.

<a onclick="return skypeCheck();" href="skype:austin.passy?call">Call me on Skype!</a>

That’s is, pretty simple huh? Just make sure you change skype:austin.passy to your user name!

Want a test? Well, please use the text button, as I was getting to many call’s and hangups: Call me on Skype! Message me on Skype!

Thanks to Shayne for this code!

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By Austin On February 2, 2009 No Comments


How to: Show/Hide any div box with jQuery in WordPress

By Austin On February 2, 2009 38 Comments

If you take a look at my current sidebar (right) and see the heading Google Search you’ll notice that when you click it the Google Search box show’s into view.

Let me show you how this is done.

First make sure that your WordPress site is calling jQuery, buy pluggin this code into our header.php file above the <?php wp_head(); ?> text:

<?php wp_enqueue_script('jquery'); ?>

Then anywhere above the </head >, plug this code in:

<script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(document).ready(function() { // hides the slickbox as soon as the DOM is ready jQuery('#toggle-search').hide(); // toggles the slickbox on clicking the notedClick here to continue reading