January 2011

Protect Your WordPress Content with this Plugin

This looks awesome!

Use this WordPress plugin to stop content theft of your WordPress powered website! You work hard at writing your articles and blog posts. Why let someone else use it and take credit? With the Copyright Feed plugin installed, activated, and configured you an make sure that you get credit for your original content and also find those who are using it as their own.

Here’s one for the WP geeks… At the m…

Here’s one for the WP geeks…

At the moment, shortcodes in WordPress are processed only in post/page content. You can use them in lots of other places, though, if you enable them for each field you want. Here’s how to use shortcodes in widgets, excerpts, comments, theme files, user descriptions, and category/tag/taxonomy descriptions.

via using shortcodes everywhere | sillybean.net.

WordPress Tutorials – Common Questions from New Users

An excerpt from a great post solving problems new WordPress users face. Here’s a common and very messy one:

Problem:

The content within the pages need help with presentation. To make more attractive, I used tables in word to apply different colors and boxes before cutting and pasting. The end product however does not appear in my post.

Do not use Word to apply any styling, period. In fact, to make your life easier in web publishing, I urge you to strongly consider changing your workflow to exclude Word. In short, Word is a word processor for creating documents, not for creating HTML for use on the web (although it claims to have this ability). The problem your seeing is that Word adds all kinds of styling code that is specific to the Word software program and NOT valid HTML. When you plop that into an HTML editor (as the WP visual editor is), those Word-specific styles get ignored and you get what you’re seeing now.

Some solutions:

1. In the WP editor visual mode, look for a button that has a yellow folder and blue W (Word icon). This allows you to paste text from a Word doc and WP will attempt to remove all Word-specific coding.

2. Paste your Word text into a plain text editor first, then into WP editor (this removes the offending Word-specific code).

3. Write your content directly in WP instead, or use a plain text editor to write content and then apply your styling later in WP

via WordPress Tutorials – Common Questions from New Users.