Load Your Theme Language File Using WordPress API

Load Your Theme Language File Using WordPress API

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There are many ways to customize your language for your wordpress site. You can download language pack and do some configs as wordpress shows you [here] . Besides some general language terms , some themes  provides their own language package in/languages/*.pot and call some api functions to load them programmatically which i show you how in this article . Continue reading →

How to set up multisite wordpress 3+

How to set up multisite wordpress 3+

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As of WordPress 3.0, you have the ability to create a network of sites by using the multisite feature. This article contains instructions for creating a multisite network. A multisite network can be very similar to your own personal version of WordPress.com. End users of your network can create their own sites on demand, just like end users of WordPress.com can create blogs on demand. If you do not have any need to allow end users to create their own sites on demand, you can create a multisite network in which only you, the administrator, can add new sites. A multisite network is a collection of sites that all share the same WordPress installation. They can also share plugins and themes. The individual sites in the network are virtual sites in the sense that they do not have their own directories on your server, although they do have separate directories for media uploads within the shared installation, and they do have separate tables in the database. Continue reading →

WordPress Directory API

WordPress Directory API

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When you design a theme, there's time you have to insert some images, some extra javascript, css files and the problem is you dont want to hard code any absolute or relative paths. Paths in theming must be general to fit wordpress directories organization . Continue reading →

How to redirect WordPress home page to arbitrary page

How to redirect WordPress home page to arbitrary page

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By default, your wordpress homepage is set as index page which lists the latest posts and sticky posts ( if any ) or some static page you set in Settings > Reading > Front page displays.  What if you want the homepage to be some category/tag or arbitrary page ? hacking into index.php in your active theme is not a good choice because no one is good at it especially you are using wordpress as a pure end-user not a PHP programmer . Continue reading →

How to customize shortcode and your own TinyMCE buttons/plugins for WordPress

How to customize shortcode and your own TinyMCE buttons/plugins for WordPress

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What is shortcode ? A shortcode is a WordPress-specific code that lets you do nifty things with very little effort. Shortcodes can embed files or create objects that would normally require lots of complicated, ugly code in just one line. Shortcode = shortcut . By default, wordpress provides a lot shortcodes for you to use in your articles to make them more interesting and look professional without your efforts to manually copy and paste too much complex html codes . Continue reading →

Recognize and Avoid Being Fished By Email ACCOUNT ALERT mail.unblocking.teams@yahoo.com

Recognize and Avoid Being Fished By Email ACCOUNT ALERT mail.unblocking.teams@yahoo.com

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First Off, This is 100% Fake Email ! and how smart it can reach to my inbox not spam so it becomes dangerous to get off the Yahoo's spam/scam barrier . Emails from Yahoo usually are marked with Yahoo Stamp, normally a small Y! icon so you can easily realize meanwhile the fake ones are not . Continue reading →

How to add more WordPress TinyMCE editor plugins

How to add more WordPress TinyMCE editor plugins

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By default, wordpress tinymce editor is configured with enough buttons on 2 toolbars : the first and second ( the second appears only when you press show/hide kitchen Sink or Alt+Shift+Z which not that everyone knows especially the beginners ) . And now you found out that it lacks for some buttons you want so bad for example : smiley, table, CSS edit and so on . These buttons are not built-in so you cant enable them   Continue reading→