After a long wait, Thematic 1.0.1 has been live in the WordPress repositories now for a couple of days now! And some issues are starting to crop up in the forum. So far the most recurring issues have to do with the menus. Oh menus, you never cease to cause trouble. The problem is that […]
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How to Use Multiple WYSIWYG (TinyMCE) Visual Editors in Your WordPress Metaboxes
Repeating, sortable, rich-text editors
Ever since WordPress invented the metabox, people have been trying to put the rich text editor (in WP this is provided by TinyMCE) into their metaboxes. And it makes sense. Sure us uber-geeks know the HTML tags required to make some text bold, but most of the world does not. But they do know how […]
Create an Alphabetical Glossary of Posts in WordPress
Order posts in groups my letter
Once up a time i did a client project where i had to have archives organized alphabetically. I ended up accomplishing by adding a query variable and targeting the posts_where filter. However, in answering a recent question at WordPress Stack Exchange I decided that it might be neater to create a hidden taxonomy instead. I […]
Customizing the WordPress Install Process with install.php
No more "This is your first post!"
I came across a super interesting post at WPBits about [automating the wordpress installation][1] process. Some of the parts about where some of the functions are located in WP that allow you to change certain things on the installation are outdated since the post is from 2007, but the concept remains perfectly intact. If you find […]
How to Find any Facebook ID
Tracking down an open graph ID from Facebook's URL
Sometimes when using WordPress plugins you sometimes need to provide a facebook ID number. If the facebook URL you are looking at is using a username instead of an ID number it isn’t inherently obvious how to find that profile’s ID number. You can go into a photo album and it might appear as part […]