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Five Canadian Universities Using WordPress to Blog

Posted on August 29, 2010 in WordPress Users

As WordPress gains more and more attention from outside the blogging community, large companies and organizations are starting to seriously consider WordPress as a low-cost alternative to enterprise level content management...

Variable Post Excerpt Lengths Based on Title Character Count

Posted on August 21, 2010 in WordPress Hacks

If you are looking to create a post landing page layout that flows across multiple columns while maintaining a consistent height to each post coming through from the loop, then the following piece of code will do just that. It...

Deregistering WordPress Plugin Javascripts and Move Them Into the Footer

Posted on August 15, 2010 in WordPress Hacks

As a javascript is being loaded on a site, it will prevent any other item from downloading. This can be very frustrating for your visitors if the scripts are loading before the...

Deregistering Default Plugin CSS Files in WordPress

Posted on August 8, 2010 in WordPress Hacks

With every file loaded into a site an HTTP request is made to the server, and the higher the number of requests made will decrease the overall load time of your site pages and posts. A simple way to cut down on those requests is...

WordPress Breadcrumb Function to Replace Plugins

Posted on August 1, 2010 in WordPress Functions

In the past I’ve relied on a plugin to handle the breadcrumbs throughout the sites I’ve built. In a effort to reduce the amount of plugins I use regular and replace them with functions I came across a simple to...

Adding Custom Modules on the WordPress Dashboard

Posted on July 25, 2010 in WordPress Functions

Wouldn’t it be nice to have the ability to add new custom module on the dashboard in your WordPress builds? The following code will do just that, simply add it to your functions.php file and add whatever you want within the...

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