Category Archives: Wordpress

Migrating from Blogger to WordPress without losing anything

I recently decided it was high time to migrate my other blog from Blogger to WordPress. Fortunately, nowadays the first part of this process, moving all your blog entries and comments across, is easy: Go to your WordPress dashboard Go toTools–›Import Select “Blogger ” You will need to give WordPress permission to access your blogger [...]

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Adding the index.php (blog) page to the default menu on a thematic childtheme

By default, a thematic childtheme will show all your pages except the standard dynamic index.php. This doesn’t matter if you are using a static home page – you get exactly what you would expect, links to “home”, “blog”, and any other pages you have added. If, however, you are using the home page to display [...]

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post_footer customisation

The site I am currently working on is requiring a lot of filtering of the standard Thematic functions. Chris’ ThemeShaper page on filtering is a good place to start, as is his guide to how to use filters, but today I was looking for some direction on how best to customise the post_footer and came [...]

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WordPress publication checklist

I’m still learning about how to manage the workflow surrounding using WordPress to create websites. In a matter of around 3 weeks I’ve become very comfortable with creating Thematic Child Themes for my designs, and with a useful pointer from the ThemeShaper forum I’ve pretty much got my design process sorted now. I use layouts [...]

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useful hooks for thematic child themes

Jean-Baptiste Jung put together a really helpful list of hooks for use with thematic. They allow you to e.g. change the footer credit or add Google Analytics scripts to your header without altering the template pages. You just add php functions to your functions.php file. If you are new to this concept it is really [...]

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getting organised

I spend a lot of time browsing the web. For fun, for news, to solve problems with code, to learn. I end up bookmarking hundreds of pages, things I think I might want or need to use/read again and want to be able to find easily. But it just doesn’t work. I have umpteen levels [...]

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