The Wordpress Warrior

Jan 18th, 2012

FREE INTERNET

Do you want to see your favourite sites be removed from the net by the US government? If not do anything you can to prevent your member voting to pass SOPA and PIPA. If you live in the US you can sign the petitioning at http://americancensorship.org/ to send a message to your member, and everyone [...]

Sep 5th, 2011

Using Robert Planks’ “Backup Creator”

Here’s a new backup plugin for wordpress written by Robert Plank that works as an alternate solution to iThemes “Backup Buddy“. Here’s a video on how to use it. jwplayer("jwplayer-1").setup({flashplayer: "http://thewpwarrior.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/jw-player-plugin-for-wordpress/player/player.swf", width: "480", height: "320", controlbar: "bottom", "image": "http://acl-training.s3.amazonaws.com/Free Videos/using_backup_creator.png", playlist: file=, events: {}, config: "http://thewpwarrior.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/jw-player-plugin-for-wordpress/configs/Standard.xml"}); To buy backup creator please follow this link.

Sep 2nd, 2011

Wishlist Member: Show Member Counts

On the Wishlist Insider Forum, a question was asked about how to the number of members for each level to display on a page or post. As of today, there is no shortcode to do that but it is relatively simple to add your own shortcode using the Version 1.0 API of Wishlist Member. The [...]

Aug 28th, 2011

Adding Code To The Wishlist Member Registration Page

I was asked a question on Ask Charly Leetham asking ‘how to’ add Google Website Optimizer code on the appropriate Wishlist Member (WLM) Registration Page. The Registration Pages on WLM are generated dynamically, and can’t be edited but the ability to add the appropriate script(s) on the page to check the effectiveness of your marketing [...]

Aug 8th, 2011

Paypal: Letting subscribers update their Recurring Payments

On Wishlist Insider (which is a great community!), there has been a lot of discussion about how to manage membership upgrades, when using Paypal as the payment processor. Until today, my position has been that the BEST way to handle this is to setup a new subscription payment and then manually cancel the ‘older’ subscription [...]

Jun 26th, 2011

Wishlist WL Post Login, Themes & RSS

As a Wishlist Insider, I am really fortunate to get access to the plugins the Wishlist Products team create to help us manage our membership sites better. The June 2011 Bonus Plugin is called WL Post Login – and can be used to direct a member to a specific Page or Post after they have [...]

Jun 18th, 2011

Ajax and WordPress: Cool Resource…

My latest read…. I guess this makes me a true Girl Geek…. WordPress and Ajax. You know how you can be on a webpage and submit a form, click a link or simply interact and the content will update without the page having to reload? Well, that’s most likely due to Ajax…. and I want [...]

May 4th, 2011

Can WordPress Run Javascript

A really interesting question – but it does get asked…. Being really pedantic in my response, I would say that Javascript is actually executed on your computer, not the webhost. When a webpage loads, it ‘calls’ a javascript that is downloaded to your computer and then executes locally through your browser. The reason I’m being [...]

May 3rd, 2011

Facebook Thumbnails: Using A Woo Themes Custom Image or WordPress Post Thumbnail

When I wrote my last article, Facebook Send: Adding A Button To Your Theme, I noticed that the thumbnail wasn’t being set. On AskCharlyLeetham.com, I noticed the thumbnail was being set to a random image from my page! This has been a big issue for many wordpress website owners, as the image displayed often appeals [...]

May 2nd, 2011

Facebook Send: Adding A Button To Your Theme

Whilst there are dozens of plugins available to add a Facebook Like / Send button to your wordpress website, you may want to code the button into your theme. There are two reasons you may want to code the button into your theme: To place the button EXACTLY where you want it to appear… not [...]