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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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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

by Steph on 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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The 5 Best WordPress Add-Ons for Business

by Steph on 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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Don’t show a WordPress category on posts page

by Steph on 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’);

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