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#65: Advanced Uses for Custom Fields in WordPress

More than any other single feature, what makes WordPress a CMS (as opposed to just a blogging platform) is custom fields. Custom fields are chunks of data that travel along with posts and pages in key/value pairs. This data can …

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404 Best Practices

A 404 error on the web is what a web server responds with when it is tasked with serving up a resource that it can’t find.

1. It should still look like your website

If you don’t specifically tell your …

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Review of WP Coder

I was recently asked by the guys at WP Coder if I would do a review of their service. I don’t do it very often, but they seemed like nice guys and WordPress is of particular interest to me lately. …

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Digging Into WordPress

Got a little news for y’all. Remember when I announced me and Jeff Starr were looking for a publisher for a book about WordPress? Well, that worked, and we talked a number of different publishers. They were all very nice, …

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Pricing Order

We were recently re-doing the signup page for Are My Sites Up, and we were looking at the way we were ordering our plans. At the time, it was from least expensive (free) to most expensive (Premium Pro). We looked …

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What’s The Best Way To Handle Page Titles?

First-level Navigation

Or, “the homepage”. Here are some possibilities:

  1. [ NAME OF SITE ]
    Short and to the point
    Ex. CSS-Tricks
  2. [ NAME OF SITE ] – Short Tagline
    Taking the opportunity to explain the site
    Ex. CSS-Tricks – A
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