General WP Tips

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WordPress User Names – did you know?

Every so often I learn a new detail about WordPress that gives me a little surprise. Today’s surprise – WordPress is just fine with spaces in your user name. So you don’t have to run it together or use an … Continue reading

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Updating to Weaver 2.2 does NOT lose any customimzations!

I’ve just found out that when you click the update to Weaver 2.2 automatically from the WordPress themes page, you get a message that say you’ll lose your customizations if you upgrade the theme. This is simply not true, at … Continue reading

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WordPress YouTube Menu Fix

If you are having problems with your WordPress menus displaying behind your YouTube video embeds, a solution is described in this Weaver Forum article. Apparently this is a fairly widespread problem with WordPress sites.

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WPWeaver.info running on WordPress 3.2

WordPress 3.2 has been released. This site has updated to 3.2. It is also currently using Weaver 2.1. Everything seems to be working with no known issues. I note as I create this post that one obvious  change is how … Continue reading

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Disabling Comments and Talkbacks

It seems that disabling Comments and Talkbacks for posts and static pages is one of the more difficult tasks that people want to do, but have trouble getting to work. I don’t think the WordPress interface makes it very clear … Continue reading

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Getting rid of the Automatic Meta Widget from Sidebar

I’ve been getting the following question a lot lately: How do  I get rid the of the Meta Widget in the sidebar? New answer: the behavior of an empty Primary Widget Area (the top sidebar) has been changed in Weaver … Continue reading

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Moving Your WP Site

This post has instructions for moving your WP site – to a new server, to a new domain, or from a development server. 1. Moving to New Server, Keeping Same Domain If you find you need to move your domain … Continue reading

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Auto Embeds

WordPress is so rich that I still am learning things it can do. Automatic embedding of media is one. For media residing on various sites, you only need to include the ULR to that site to have it display in … Continue reading

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WPMS Mobile Edition

I’ve just discovered an essential plugin: Word Press Multi Site Mobile Edition – it automatically provides an alternative Mobile Theme version of your site. Don’t let the Multi Site in the name mislead you – this plugin works equally well … Continue reading

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