By Esther
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November 30th, 2009
Advanced TinyMCE is a useful plugin; it lets you add all of the buttons that WordPress “hides.” When you need to add ‘Word-like’ WYSIWIG editing to a WordPress site, it’s probably your best choice. But most of the time, giving your users a ‘Word-like’ interface is a bad idea. (Admit it!)
After spending some time trying [...]
I recently finished a big project, a few months in the making, that tests the limits of "WordPress as a CMS." At some points in development, I wondered if it was a crazy idea to do this all in WordPress -- but the easy UI (for my client) and quick development (for me) made it [...]
I normally stay away from Dreamweaver, mostly because of a personal dislike, but also beacause if a client wants to use Dreamweaver (because they want to be able to edit their own site), it’s likely they’ll get in over their head and then “Design View” will gunk up the code. I prefer using a CMS [...]
Edit: For more information on WordCycle, examples, and support, please see the WordCycle page.
I mostly develop two kinds of websites: WordPress sites and not-WordPress sites. In these not-WP sites, I find that I use Alsup’s jQuery Cycle Plugin on a regular basis. For a new project, my client has a slideshow on their homepage using [...]
I'm developing a website in WordPress for a "tourist destination" that has a few types of content -- webpages, blog posts, events, and business listings. After learning a few things about using WordPress as CMS, I decided at the beginning that everything (except for webpages) would need to be some kind of Post.
Using Freshout's [...]
By Esther
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February 6th, 2009
I’ve come across a number of useful “WordPress as a CMS” type posts, but only a few that detail building an actual WordPress site. I’m going to go over how I setup a basic CMS using WordPress in a recent project for the startup lecture management firm, Verbatim Lecture Management.
By Esther
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September 12th, 2008
Last year, I wrote a number of posts to TechNotes (the Smith College technology blog for students) about copyright infringement and the Acceptable Use Policy, but the posts were scattered chronologically, and other than searching by tag, there was no good way to gather all the information/announcements together in one place. With the new semester [...]
How To: Allow Syntax Highlighting in WordPress Comments