I recently had the opportunity to help out with a colleague's WordPress multisite setup. It brought back all of my previous experiences with WordPress networks. If you are trying to make the decision between single or multisite, hopefully my experience can help you. Let's start with the CONS: I always like to start with the cons because you get to finish with happy thoughts. Multisite: Sometimes a challenge to get up and running: WordPress will spit out a configuration, but it wont … Read Full Post....
Programmers Vs Accountants
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When you ask a programmer what they do for a living, they will proudly say "Programmer". To a programmer, being a professional programmer is the ultimate accomplishment. This sense of pride is usually met with confusion from a non programmer. To a non programmer, being a programmer is the same as being an accountant. Hollywood has shown that programmers work from a desk cluttered with Code Red Moutain Dew and multiple keyboards. Maybe even some goofy glasses and a pocket protector. The … Read Full Post....
Forum Lives Again
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Those of you who have been following Lipe Imagination?from the beginning will remember the first big project we started was a forum. It was originally located at lipeimagination.info/forum/mainpage.php.?Even the structure of that url will tell you how old school the original project was. In the beginning it was semi-popular. Getting 50 posts on busy days ,it was of interest to many people from my network and some curious outsiders. A couple of years ago the forum had become neglected and … Read Full Post....
WordPress is in Chicago?
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Today I reach out from a Student Center in ad DePaul University in Chicago. The purpose of my visit is to attend a Wordcamp with my colleges from Vivid Image. I question I was asked most before I left was "What is Wordcamp?". So here is an explanation...... Wordcamp is a convention for Wordpress users, developers, business owners, interested parties, and others just looking get out of the house. Here we get together to share ideas, and learn from each other. Now that Wordpress has become the … Read Full Post....
Using Jquery with WordPress
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Today's Wordpress tip of the day is "Using Jquery with Wordpress" When adding javascript or jquery to wordpress it is tempting to throw something into a header or footer hook that simply echos out a script tag like so add_action( 'get_header', 'script_function' ); function script_function(){ echo '<script type="text/javascript">'; alert( 'hello' ); echo '</script>'; } While this method will do the trick it can become quite cumbersome. You have to be careful of which order you … Read Full Post....
Advanced Sidebar Menu Hits 5,000
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Here is a copy of the email I had the pleasure of sending out to Everyone I work with at Vivid Image As The plugin I developed Advanced Sidebar Menu reaches 5,000 downloads http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-sidebar-menu/ I thought it might be a good time to talk about the capabilities I have added in the last couple versions. As of version 3.0 released on April 14th, I added the ability to display categories with the same child/parent relationship as the pages. This feature (inspired … Read Full Post....
Paginating With WordPress Custom Post Types
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Todays topic is Paginating Custom Post types. Paginating is by default built into wordpress. It is quite easy to use and in most cases it is an automatic addition to the bottom of pages. You can adjust how many post show up by changing a setting the Reading Section. You can also change the type of page links which are display in the Genesis settings. This all works good and fine unless you want your custom post type to paginate. That does not work as expected. To make the links show up you … Read Full Post....
Forum Redesign Phase 1 Complete
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Hello Everyone, Today I published the phase 1 changes to my forum. The new structure is currently in Beta testing phase. Most of the changes are invisible. I recreated the entire structure of the site to allow for future changes more efficiently. Some of the changes that have already been made are as follows: The location of the forum has changed to http://forum.lipeimagination.info, don't worry, all the old links and site location will still bring you to the new home. The url structure is … Read Full Post....
Guess who got published today?
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I currently work for a company named Vivid Image and part of keeping the employees moving forward in their position we are given tasks called "Action Items". Put simply, they are goals to strive to achieve specific to each staff member. One of my current "Action Items" was to get involved in the Wordpress community. If you are unfamiliar with wordpress, it is the content management system we current use at Vivid Image to build our sites on. Yesterday I finally found some time to do so. "Yeah, … Read Full Post....
New Domain Extensions
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On June 20th 2011, ICANN(Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)’s Board of Directors made the decision to allow new generic top-level domains. If that doesn’t make any sense to you, believe me, you are not alone. What is ICANN? What are generic top-level domains? How does this affect me?..... These are all very good questions. Let’s see if I can answer them. First let’s take a look at ICANN. ICANN or (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is a non-profit … Read Full Post....