With WordPress’ templates, patterns, and template parts, you can conveniently and quickly create web pages. You can create these yourself, and some themes come packed with these building blocks to give you a head-start. Unfortunately, WordPress also loads a ton of random patterns, from core as well as remote. I bumped into this annoying ‘feature’ […]
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This category bundles everything that isn't a framework, plugin, or theme – and its name starts with one of the last letters of the alphabet.
Creating a custom taxonomy in WordPress
Over at ThemingWP, we wanted to introduce a new taxonomy – brands. A taxonomy dedicated to theme vendors like StudioPress and WooThemes. Brands would become the third taxonomy, next to the default categories and tags. The names of the vendors were already in the database – as tags. This means we had to extract the […]
Putting your foot down – keep the footer at the bottom of the page
While setting up a new website, have you ever experienced that the page footer is floating somewhere halfway the page? Usually this resolves itself as soon as you start publishing content. But when you also publish smaller posts, or use post formats and publish for example links and quotes, you might encounter those mid-air footers […]
Moving from FeedBurner to MailChimp – a complete migration guide
Until last week, e-mail subscribers to this blog were served through FeedBurner. Last Monday, the e-mail addresses of these subscribers were moved to MailChimp. In case you are thinking about moving from FeedBurner to MailChimp too, this post will show you how to accomplish that successfully. When you are not convinced yet why you should […]
Goodbye FeedBurner, Hello MailChimp
Back in 2012, when I started this blog, FeedBurner was the e-mail service to go for bloggers offering visitors the ability to subscribe through RSS. As most of you, I really do not know what Google’s intentions are with FeedBurner. Does Google know? There is a lot of rumor that they are going to shut […]
A Non-Geek Making Websites – with WordPress
From my point of view, a geek is a computer enthusiast. At school he – or she – was good at mathematics. When going for a degree, it will usually be in one of the beta sciences like physics or more practical (information) technology. My background is in business administration. My first computer was as […]