The Wordpress Warrior

Apr 29th, 2011

Adding Code to WordPress Posts and the Power of Shortcodes

Have you ever tried pasting code (adsense code, paypal buttons, social buttons) into the WordPress editor only to have the code display in the post or page… Frustrating right? With the right plugins, it is possible to paste code straight into your editor and have them displayed on the site. Exercise caution though – adding [...]

Apr 27th, 2011

Using JQuery From Googles CDN in a WordPress Theme

I recently participated in a discussion on the WordPress forums about how to call jQuery from Googles CDN rather than using the version that comes with WordPress. The reason to use the Google CDN is that it is typically faster than your webhosting and may make the jquery functions in themes and plugins run more [...]

Apr 25th, 2011

Allowing WordPress Short Codes To ‘run’ in the sidebar

WordPress “shortcodes” are wonderful things…. they are a way to create functions (or macros) within your wordpress theme for any number of things. I use Shortcodes a lot when creating sites for my clients – and it makes things a lot easier. Essentially a shortcode is text with your content that is ‘wrapped’ in square [...]

Apr 10th, 2011

Changing the maximum upload limit in WordPress

The maximum size of a file that may be uploaded through the WordPress media uploader is set by the web servers’ php configuration. It may be possible to override the web servers configuration for each instance of word press by modifying the php.ini or .htaccess file, for the specific instance

Jan 7th, 2011

International Programmers Day – January 7th 2011

January 7th 2011 marks International Programmers Day – and we thought it would be a great time to reach out and say ‘Thanks’ to all the great programmers around the world. For more information on International Programmers Day, you can visit the official website. The official website shares some great programming achievements and it’s really [...]

Sep 19th, 2010

Highlighting Code And Removing Curly Quotes (Smart Quotes)

For a while now, we’ve been using the Syntax Highlighter Plugin For WordPress from Last Engine. This plugin uses Alex Gorbatchev’s javascript code – Syntax Highlighter. It has some great functionality and has certainly made pasting code segments into our posts much easier. The plugin works by wrapping the code to display in . What [...]

Aug 21st, 2010

Better WP Performance: Preloading Images With CSS

I have been creating a lot of image and photo rich wordpress websites lately and using jQuery to display galleries and rotating photo shows. These sites are really awesome but, the galleries can take a long time to load and the overall visitor effect can be disappointing. After a bit of searching I found that [...]

Jul 24th, 2010

Announcing Upcoming Content

Scheduling posts is a a good thing to do if you have lots of information to share or if you run a membership site and you want to drip content out to them. However, you want to give your members a sneak peek of what’s coming up – to increase the anticipation. Here’s a simple [...]

Jul 23rd, 2010

Testing the Login Form Widget

In an earlier post,I gave an example of how to set up a custom login form and add a short code to display the login form anywhere on your site. I’ve been asked to demonstrate the the form in action… so here it is:

Jul 18th, 2010

WordPress, Memory Usage and Me….

As we add more and more functionality to our WordPress Websites, memory usage on our webservers is becoming an issue. With some webhosts, it is possible to increase the amount of memory that is allocated to run PHP. In this article, I’ll share how website administrators may increase the memory allocation for their WordPress website. [...]