Crib Sheet
What follows below are links to a series of quick and somewhat specific notes to the WordPress environment, which in the spirit of Open Source knowledge we make freely available. This section is not intended to be a comprehensive series of “how-to” articles, but rather a place to store code snippets, and other such observations. Generally this information shouldn’t be used by a standard site owner…..
WordPress Plugins
- Miscellaneous plugins
- RSS plugins
- SEO plugins
- Image Handling plugins
- Web-Form plugins
- Structure related Plugins
- Search related plugins
- Security Related
- PayPal related plugins
- Membership plugins
- Member Access – not as straight forward as you would think
- Mail Chimp Plugins
WordPress Code Modifications
- Stupid Title Tricks
- Default Template Files
- Common template tags
- CSS – wordpress dynamic classes
- Category description
- Clear navigation from categeory to sub-category
- Building a Gallery
- Controlling the Gallery image detail page
- Using the “featured image” function
- PROCEDURE TO CREATE A PAGE TEMPLATE
- Creating a Post Template
- Category Specific Archive Layout
- Attaching a list of specified posts to a page template
- Widgetizing header & footer regions
- Custom fields
- Custom Fields – redux
- Inserting the search function
- login code
- LOGIN FORM IN SIDEBAR
- Multisite
- Calling an alternative sidebar
- RSS feeds
- Random Header Images
- Absolute control of the excerpt in WordPress!
- Eliminating “blog archive” from category page title
