Category Archives: Extend Wordpress

How to Add a Sticky Post to a Wordpress Category Archive Page

By Adam W. Warner | Published: October 23, 2009
We all know that you can add a sticky post to the index page right? Have you ever wanted to do the same with a category archive page? One way is to create your own category page template and code in a custom loop, but that’s not really “user-friendly” for most WordPress users. As good [...]
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WordPress Books Giveaway!

By Adam W. Warner | Published: October 19, 2009
Are you a WordPress fan like me? Do you aspire to become an expert in any area of WordPress like themes or plugins? Maybe you’ve heard of WordPress Multi-User (WPMU) and want to know how it differs from standard WordPress and learn it’s enormous capabilities? Well kiddos, if any of the above rings true for you, [...]
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Embedding Media in WordPress is About to Become Simple

By Adam W. Warner | Published: October 14, 2009
Viper007Bond, “a 25 year old guy living in Portland, Oregon”, has just posted some very exciting news concerning a new feature coming in the 2.9 release of WordPress. Media Embedding. If you’ve ever struggled with embedding video or images, or if you wish it was simpler for your clients to do, you’ve just found the [...]
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Using the Category-Icons plugin and Thematic to create custom category pages

By Adam W. Warner | Published: August 14, 2009
I am working on a website redesign project for a company that has a need to display several thousand products on their site. One of the main goals with this redesign was easier navigation for the end user. This post will focus on only one aspect of this new navigation. The display of categories. The desire [...]
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WordPress Shop Products – Almost Perfect, but Not Quite

By Adam W. Warner | Published: June 26, 2009
As with most products I use or causes I’m involved with, I’m always proud to be affiliated and promote their use whenever I can. This is no different with WordPress. Although I’ve been using WordPress for many years now, I’ve never bought anything from the WordPress shop until recently. I’m a proud user and wanted to [...]
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How to Post to your WordPress Site Directly from Yahoo! Mail

By Adam W. Warner | Published: June 23, 2009
An interesting thing happened while I was checking my Yahoo! Mail this morning. A little notification popped up telling me that I had an extra feature named “Applications” and asked if I would like to see the “Gallery”. So I had a look and it appears that Yahoo! has integrated some applications in the their [...]
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Extending WordPress by Using the Power of Video – Part Six

By Adam W. Warner | Published: June 17, 2009
This is the sixth post in my series about using video with WordPress. Today we’ll focus on some plugins and a couple of themes that help to display video on your WordPress-powered site. I’ve discussed plugins previously in this series, but in the WordPress world, things are always evolving and plugin development is a prime [...]
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Simple:Press Forum Updates are Coming

By Adam W. Warner | Published: June 3, 2009
I’ve written about my favorite WordPress forum plugin previously on the posts Do You Need a Simple WordPress Forum? and Simple WordPress Forum Plugin – Revisited. I’ve just received an update on the progress of the upcoming latest release and there are some really cool features that will be included. From the Simple:Press site:
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Extending WordPress by Using the Power of Video – Part Five

By Adam W. Warner | Published: May 8, 2009
Read Parts One, Two, Three, and Four. This is the fifth post in my series about using video with WordPress. In this post, we’ll talk about how displaying video content can differ from the normal blog or website layout, and what themes are available to help your site stand out from the rest. Over the last several [...]
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Do you want to help guide the development of my latest project?

By Adam W. Warner | Published: April 24, 2009
About a week ago I shared a tidbit of information concerning my web development secret. To my delight, it was very well received and there is genuine excitement about it. As a big thank you to all who read this and have visited the project page, I would like to bring you in on some [...]
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