Note: This will work for converting up to the latest version of Drupal to the latest version of WordPress, as of January 1, 2015. After hunting down some tutorials and finding some missing important parts, no explanations, and being disappointed, I had to do some experimenting. As a developer, I do not mind solving a
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WordPress Video: Adding A Featured Thumbnail In WordPress
I have put together a WordPress screencast video on adding a featured thumbnail in WordPress. A thumbnail is usually a small image that represents something like a larger image, or even a small image related to an article. WordPress is pretty cool to have the ability for featured thumbnails built into the core. However, it
[Continue Reading...]Add More Social Network Handles To Your WordPress Author Profile
The author’s page by default only allows you to put just enough information up. For those who utilize their authors.php page, they can add more things like your Twitter and Facebook profile to their author profile and not have to even alter the core of their site. You can even add more than that. This
[Continue Reading...]Tutorial: Cufon Text Replacement Without A Plugin in WordPress
Cufón fonts is a jquery script written to help webmasters change the font on their site. This is done without using the CSS @fontface trick or even loading the font file to your own server/ shared hosting web space. Now, there is a plugin in the WordPress Plugin Repository called WP Cufon that does this,
[Continue Reading...]How to Display Comments and Trackbacks Separately
If you’ve observed your WordPress comments for each of your blog posts, sometimes you see comments, and others are trackbacks. Trackbacks are links back from another post, on another website. If another blogger mentions your post, and links to it, then you will see this. With some themes, you can disable showing this. However, if
[Continue Reading...]How to Find WordPress Category ID
What? Why would you have to find a WordPress category ID? Good question. Some themes or plugins ask you for this, and usually it is for things like excluding or including a category. You’d think that some of these themes and plugins have a drop down that will pull a list of your categories, but
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