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[WordPress Canada]Updates to All of Our Child Themes

We have pushed out updates to all of our child themes. The updates are a combination of bug fixes, feature enhancements and general tidying up of miscellaneous code in keeping up with Genesis standards. The changes are as follows: BLOGNEWS CHILD THEME Added support for the Genesis Box. This is disabled by default. Instructions on [...]

[WordPress Canada]Humphrey Theme Updated v1.1

The Humphrey child theme for the Genesis Framework has been updated to version 1.1. This is a maintenance release. Version 1.0 contained a special file to include the Genesis Box on single post pages. The problem is the function was never called in the theme's functions.php file. This has now been corrected. The applicable styling [...]

[WordPress Canada]WPCanada Releases NewsBeat Theme

WPCanada is pleased to announce the release of the NewsBeat 1.0 child theme. This is a child theme of the Genesis framework and thus requires Genesis in order for it to function. Theme Features Custom home page Custom header Feature images Multiple layouts 10 different "alert box" styles and much more This is a free [...]

[WordPress Canada]Weekly WordPress Review

Hello everyone and welcome to Issue #29 of the Weekly WordPress Review, a weekly roundup of the latest happenings in the world of WordPress. No More Passwords: Log Into WordPress with a QR Code (WPMU.org) How to Install LiveFyre (Headway) Rotate Background Images On Your Website With Site Background Slider (WP Mods) How To Move [...]

[WordPress Canada]A History of Default WordPress Themes

Ever wonder what the first default WordPress theme looked like? WPLift takes a look at the various default themes used by WordPress through the years.

[Desperately Seeking WordPress]How easy is WordPress to use? {video}

This is a very common question. And definitely a great question when you’re considering moving to your own self-hosted WordPress. This video covers the answer to “Is WordPress easy to use?” For more about using WordPress, its setup, and what you’ll need to get started, see our Getting Started with Web Hosting page.

[WordPress Canada]WPCanada Releases Humphrey Theme

WPCanada is pleased to announce the release of the Humphrey 1.0 child theme. This is a child theme of the Genesis framework and thus requires Genesis in order for it to function. Theme Features Custom home page Custom header Feature images Multiple layouts 10 different "alert box" styles Google fonts and much more This is [...]

[Desperately Seeking WordPress]How to use Inlinkz to host a linky

Sometimes, a little step-by-step, you-can’t-mess-this-up is what we need. I hope this helps! For this, we will assume you have signed in at Inlinkz.com and upgraded to a premium account (only $19.99 per YEAR- amazing!) Lets set up the situation: you have a website that accepts submissions of a Wordless Wednesday, or Menu Plan Monday, [...]

[Desperately Seeking WordPress]Moving from Blogger (Atom XML) to WordPress with RSS Import

Note: this is only half the problem. The comments do backup onto your hard drive. But this will not import them into WordPress. You can request access to the beta version of the Blogger Backup utility if you need to backup and restore posts – and you can use the BLOGML xml type instead [...]

[Desperately Seeking WordPress]10% Coupon for Genesis by StudioPress for Developers

Now is the time! If you’ve been thinking about purchasing the StudioPress / Genesis package, and humming and hawing over it – now is the time! The price is going up next month! We are not usually early adopters into software – I like to play it safe for a little while – see how [...]

[WordPress Canada]Plugin Review: WP Deals

Do you run an online store? Do you often run specials or deals on your products? If yes you may want to take a look at WP Deals. WP Deals is a free plugin brought to you by the folks behind Tokokoo, maker of fine premium WordPress e-commerce themes. After you have installed and activated [...]

[Desperately Seeking WordPress]How to Insert Flickr Photos into WordPress

In this tutorial, we’ll cover two ways of adding a flickr image into your WordPress posts or pages. 1. Step One: Log into Flickr 2. Step Two: Click on Share When you click on Share – > More share options, get the BBcode – and it will look something like this: 3. Step Three: Paste [...]

[Desperately Seeking WordPress]Bulk Editing of Posts and Categories, Tags, and other Terms

We’ve found two plugins that make editing a batch of posts and categories a snap! First, use Term Management Tools by Scribu to turn all those categories into a nice easy to manage hierarchy of main categories, sub-categories, and tags. Then use Batch Cat by Lenin Lee to add /edit / remove the appropriate terms from the posts [...]

[WordPress Canada]Updates to Winfield and Winfield Dark

Both the Winfield and Winfield Dark Genesis child themes have been updated. Both themes feature a custom widgetized home page that defaults to a standard blog format if no widgets are active. The problem was I included a function in the functions.php file of both themes that forced a full width layout on the home [...]

[Peter's Useful Crap]How to access “most viewed pages” data using the Google Analytics API 3.0 and PHP

If you are running Google Analytics on your site, you can use its API to read visitor data and display the information. Here is a quick framework how-to on using the API to get the data to create a “most viewed” widget based on the pages that get the most pageviews. The data is accessed [...]

[WordPress Canada]WPCanada Releases Winfield Dark Theme

WPCanada is pleased to announce the release of the Winfield Dark 1.0 child theme. This is a child theme of the Genesis framework and thus requires Genesis in order for it to function. Theme Features Custom home page Custom header Feature images Multiple layouts 10 different "alert box" styles Google fonts and much more Winfield [...]

[WordPress Canada]WPCanada Releases Winfield Theme

WPCanada is pleased to announce the release of the Winfield 1.0 child theme. This is a child theme of the Genesis framework and thus requires Genesis in order for it to function. Theme Features Custom home page Custom header Feature images Multiple layouts 10 different "alert box" styles Google fonts and much more This is [...]

[WordPress Canada]Akismet Adds New Features

Do you use Akismet on your site? Have you checked your comment moderation queue lately? If you answered yes to both questions you've probably noticed a couple of nifty new features added to Akismet. Actually v2.5.4 added a number of new features: Added author URL quick removal functionality Added mShot preview on Author URL hover [...]

[WP First Aid]Remove Comment Form Website Section

From time to time an interesting Five-Minute-FixTM comes along that sparks a great reason to add another WordPress Tips post. The idea for this tip started with this comment at BuyNowShop.com: … how to remove the website section when leaving a reply/comment … The solution may be obvious to some and can be readily derived [...]

[WPSNIPP]Set the content type email from text/plain to text/html

Adding this snippet to the functions.php of your wordpress theme will let you set the content type of email from text/plain to text/html.

Visit wpsnipp.com for details on how to setup this WordPress snippet.