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WordPress: Tips, Hacks and Extras

WordPress gives us so many options that it truly is amazing they have yet to declare themselves a Content Management System. Sometimes though we have to give the program a little nudge to squeeze out every last drop of goodness and make it do what we need. The list of short tips, hacks and extras below has been compiled over the course of several months, with no specific intent to be released in this manner, though it seemed appropriate. These "mini-tutorials" are much too short to be converted into articles but at the same time deserved to be released, at least, in a compilation. Using Multiple single.php Templates Objective: Divert posts to one of several single.php templates Setup: Remove the contents of single.php and insert the code provided below. Create new single.php templates...

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PictureBook

While doing our usual run of site updates and code adjustments we ran into a small issue, how to display WordPress bookmarks with both text and images. Utilizing the "Links" tab ( WordPress 2.7 + up ) it is possible to list them as either a list of text links or a list of image links but not both. Several hours of research reading entries by angry WordPress users in the Support forum confident that bookmarks should...