How to Quickly Integrate aMember and WordPressMU

October 20, 2009

AMember is a membership management application that can be integrated with many popular projects, including WordPress. However, I have found very little support for WPMU in the realm of member management software. I haven’t tried out many of the WordPress plugins, because I’m just not willing to fork over the cash to see if I [...]

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9 Reasons Why Thesis Rocks Other WordPress Themes

October 15, 2009

There are thousands of WordPress themes, both paid and free. Some are pretty, some aren’t. Some are functional, some aren’t. Some just plain suck and require lots of work to get working right. I started using Thesis because a was told to for a project and didn’t really understand why others thought it was so [...]

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Reordering a drag-and-drop list in WordPress

October 12, 2009

This took me far too long to figure out, so thought it might save someone else some time.
Include CSS and jQuery:
<link type="text/css" href="/includes/jquery/css/ui-lightness/jquery-ui-1.7.2.custom.css” rel=”Stylesheet” />

The HTML:
<ul id=”new_fields”>
   <li id=”field_id_44″ class=”ui-state-default”>Item 1</li>
   <li id=”field_id_5″ class=”ui-state-default”>Item 2</li>
   <li id=”field_id_9″ class=”ui-state-default”>Item 3</li>
</ul>
The Javascript:

jQuery(document).ready(function(){
jQuery(“#new_fields”).sortable({
cursor:’move’,
update:function(){
[...]

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Pretty Link Pro coupon

October 9, 2009

Pretty Link Pro currently has a promotion going for $30 off. But it’s only good until October 11, so now is the time to upgrade. If you’re not using the free version yet, try that out first.

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Terms of Use WordPress Plugin

September 27, 2009

Instead of adding Terms and Conditions to the signup page, this plugin presents all users except admins with your terms and conditions the first time they login. The Admin menu is hidden until they accept your terms if the option to require agreement on ‘All Admin pages’ is selected. Existing users and those added in [...]

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The 5 Best WordPress Add-Ons for Business

September 22, 2009

I work as a contractor for several companies, one of which has been using a couple of Ruby on Rails web applications. I worked with a small team of developers to write them: a payment site, and the actual product/service site. As time went by, I became the only developer doing the maintenance and building [...]

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White Magic

September 21, 2009

I think I’ve found the best free iPhone app: White Noise Whenever I turn it on, my two-month old baby instantly stops crying, it helps him get back to sleep without help, and he sleeps a lot longer at night. It puts me right to sleep too.

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Don’t show a WordPress category on posts page

September 17, 2009

Have you ever used WordPress posts for something other than a blog post? I use them for FAQ pages, but I don’t want the FAQs to show up in the main blog.
(?? = category id number)

function exclude_category($query) {
if ( $query->is_home )
$query->set(‘cat’, ‘-??’);
return $query;
}
add_filter(‘pre_get_posts’, ‘exclude_category’);

The minus sign in [...]

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