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Working with breadcrumbs tied to menus

Sherwin Arnott January 23, 2021February 5, 2021

Creating breadcrumbs from menus in WordPress can be very handy.

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Fixing some old media library folder problems in WordPress

Pink Sheep Media January 3, 2021January 3, 2021

One of the WordPress websites we manage had a legacy media library problem. There were thousands of files in the uploads folder and they weren’t…

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Converting a WordPress site to a flat HTML site

Sherwin Arnott October 25, 2020October 25, 2020

In the past I’ve experimented with archiving old WordPress sites by converting them to HTML files and hosting them at archival URLs. The plugin I…

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Documents library for WordPress

Sherwin Arnott August 14, 2020August 14, 2020

This looks handy.

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Images to RSS Code Snippet

Baylee August 14, 2020November 27, 2020

We use a code snippet to add Featured Images into our RSS feeds, but we wanted to see if that was still the best way…

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Controlling Subscriber Notifications: Solution

Baylee August 10, 2020November 27, 2020

In the end we found a pretty simple solution to our problem: how to keep notifications from going out to subscribers using Jetpack in Gutenberg….

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Default Featured Images

Baylee August 3, 2020August 3, 2020

This week we did some research. We have a hub site, and we know that not all of our contributors remember (or choose) to use…

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Excerpts for pages

Sherwin Arnott July 26, 2020November 27, 2020

It’s nice to have page excerpts. Here’s one way to do it: https://workingwithpixels.com/add-excerpts-to-wordpress-pages.html

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Visual Portfolio, Posts & Image Gallery

Baylee July 22, 2020July 22, 2020

In our search for a masonry display that would display full posts we tried “Visual Portfolio.” It isn’t quite what we were looking for, but…

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Tools for managing WordPress media library

Sherwin Arnott May 31, 2020May 31, 2020

Media from FTP: similar to Media Sync, and is helpful way to scan and index files in uploads uploads folders. (update: doesn’t seem to work)…

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Sassy Social Share plugin

Sherwin Arnott May 25, 2020May 25, 2020

These are nice options for some blogs, for displaying the sharing buttons: Example here: https://www.bruceelkin.com/articles/

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Edit author slug

Sherwin Arnott May 25, 2020May 25, 2020

Great way to change the URL on the user profile:

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Plugins Garbage Collector

Sherwin Arnott April 21, 2020January 16, 2021

This is a handy tool for finding and destroying old unused WordPress tables from old plugins. Plugins Garbage Collector (Database Cleanup)

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Is this a resource that could help me with the hydra bug?

Sherwin Arnott November 3, 2018April 21, 2020

Is this a resource that could help me with the hydra bug? WP Edit

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Comments, community building, forum

Sherwin Arnott November 2, 2018April 21, 2020

Hmm, this plugin looks interesting. Should test it out. It connects to www.discourse.org. WP Discourse

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