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We followed the advice of Yoast.com and moved to VPS.net.
Read more about it in our WordPress hosting article.
Awesome WordPress Feature of the Day: Add Theme Support
This has become one of my favorite features when I build a new WordPress theme. It seems like such a simple thing, but when I started coding my themes with this function in mind everything melds together so nicely. ( more )
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Enable Multi-Site in WordPress
WordPress merging with WordPress MU makes an awesome software package even better. The issue now is, how do you turn on the multi-site functionality? If you are like me and find yourself forgetting that one line of code needed to … ( more )
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First Impressions: Genesis Theme Framework
Lately I’ve been doing a lot more work with WordPress, and it’s given me the opportunity to work on lots of different themes and theme frameworks. Given the choice I would much rather start a new theme from scratch. Of … ( more )
Displaying custom post types on your WordPress blog homepage
So you have created a great new custom post type in WordPress 3.0 but it doesn’t show on your homepage. To add your new post type to the homepage you could use the following code in your functions.php. As you … ( more )
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WordPress Hosting
Think2Loud had been on shared hosting for just under two years, before I finally decided to take the leap and set up my own server. A few months ago I was reading a blog post by WooThemes about their new … ( more )
How to see if a Post in WordPress has an Excerpt
On the single post page for our posts, we wanted to display the excerpt only if one had been entered. Since the built-in WordPress function to get the excerpt for a post will automatically generate one for you, we couldn’t … ( more )
Harness the Power of the WordPress Post Class Function and Style Those Sticky Posts
The sticky post functionality in WordPress uses the post class function introduced in WordPress 2.7 to style your sticky post with css. In order to have your sticky posts styled different than your regular posts, you need to have the post class function in your theme within the post loop. ( more )
8 Must-Have WordPress Plugins to Improve SEO, Speed, and Security
Plugins are one of the things that make WordPress great. You can easily extend the functionality of WordPress without having to know much about PHP. ( more )