I have been working on a number of sites recently that require several of the pages to be protected to logged in users only. Also I have had one site where all pages which have a particular parent page needed protecting to logged in users only. With some very handy built in WordPress functions and a bit of PHP this post attempts to show you how this can be done.
Ribbweb ICT runs WordPress and is used as a CMS in order to provide online resources for students to use. It...
I regularly check CSS Mania, which is a website that showcases excellent design in terms of CSS driven websites. I would like to use this post to showcase three sites that I have recently seen that I find excellent examples. All of these sites are websites that showcase web design services and each one provides excellent examples of how to do it.
For a while now WordPress has had the functionality for you to add dynamic classes to your posts and pages. So what are dynamic classes, how do they work and how can they help you when creating a website using WordPress? In this post I will try to answer these questions and more.
Dynamic means change and that is exactly what WordPress’ dynamic classes do. If you add them to a post then they will change depending on which post your are looking at. Lets take a...
Everyone seems to be using Twitter at the moment and it was with this in mind that I decided to include in this site the “Tweet this Post” icon that you can see to the right of each post title. What is a little different about this Tweet This button is that instead of using one of the many URL shortening services, it uses WordPress functionality to keep the shortened URL on your own domain name. This post with talk you though how I did this.
First of all it...
This week saw the delivery of my Mac Mini from Apple. I am going to be using the Mac Mini as a media centre for the house. With its size, weight and energy usage all very small it seems like the ideal machine for the job. It is connected to my home network allowing other computers to share its resources. It is also connected to speakers around the house. In this post I will demonstrate the setup that I have used in order to get my Mac Mini acting as an excellent media...
Backups are essential for anything to do with computers and having a WordPress website is no different at all. You learn the hard way with backups, and I learnt the hard way about 4 years ago, when due to the lack of having a backup I lost my entire recipe collection. So here is a quick video tutorial on how to backup your WordPress website.
There are two main things that should be backed up when backing up a WordPress powered website. The first and perhaps most important...