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Social media and social networking are as popular as ever. People are updating their Facebook statuses, sending out pictures through Twitter, and connecting with fellow professionals on LinkedIn. They’re also sharing their locations and favorite places with Foursquare, so how can you best integrate that network onto your blog? One way to do it is [...]

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The free WordPress Theme Ground Floor version 1.5.1 is now available at WordPress.org as of Jul 26, 2010. Related posts:

1. Ground Floor 1.4
2. Ground Floor 1.3
3. Shades 1.5.1

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I believe there are many reasons for themes to use this function or add it to your WordPress web site. I will briefly discuss a couple of the ones that come to mind. Note, if you are using the default permalink structure this may not be for you as the_shortlink() creates a URL that looks [...]

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Here’s a simple internal function that will return a list of all sites in the network. The code below just shows them all and unlinked.

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I updated the theme stats plugin to work with new WordPress 3.0 networks as well as with MU installs upgraded to WordPress 3.0. You can download it here: WordPress Network Theme Stats. August 2, 2009 — WordPress MU Theme Stats (3) June 29, 2010 — BuddyPress Author Link (0) June 28, 2010 — Another Featured [...]

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You’ve surely encountered more than one blog out there that highlights a series of “related posts” at the end of each entry. This is a great feature to have on your blog, because it can direct interested visitors toward additional reading on your site that is relevant to what they just read. That much makes [...]

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The custom menu code featured in the free WordPress theme Desk Mess Mirrored version 1.7 Related posts:

1. Desk Mess Mirrored 1.5
2. Desk Mess Mirrored 1.2
3. Desk Mess Mirrored 1.6

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In this third installment in the upgrade to wp_nav_menu() series of posts, I will be dealing with moving from wp_list_categories() to wp_nav_menu(). Let’s start with the same basic outline and list the default options for each function. We will start with wp_nav_menu() 1 first: wp_nav_menu( array( ‘menu’ => ”, ‘container’ => ‘div’, ‘container_class’ => ”, [...]

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I remembered this really neat internal function that is handy to display anywhere you want to show how many sites and users you have in your network. $stats = get_sitestats(); echo ‘There are currently ‘.$stats[ 'blogs' ].’ sites running on this network and ‘.$stats[ 'users' ].’ users.’; Surround that in php tags. For added snazziness [...]

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Both Andrea & I will be speaking at WordCamp Montreal. Andrea & I have had a fantastic time at every WordCamp we have attended and we enjoy meeting other people who use WordPress. If you have never been to one, this will be a great one for you to attend. Whatever you are doing with [...]

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