Tag Archives: wordpress

Customizing TinyMCE without Advanced TinyMCE

By Esther | 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!)
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How To: Allow Syntax Highlighting in WordPress Comments

By Esther | October 13th, 2009
I suppose this could be a plugin, but it seems too simple for all that… With SyntaxHighlighter Evolved installed, add the following PHP snippet to your functions.php file to allow syntax highlighting in your WordPress comments:
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WP+jMonthCalendar=Fancy

By Esther | March 19th, 2009
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 [...]
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WordPress as a CMS

By Esther | 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.
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That’s one way to build a dynamic front page for WPMU…

By Esther | September 9th, 2008
A few months ago, I started working on a WordPress MU (multi-user) install to host the few blogs at Smith College ITS. Once I got it setup, it seemed like the next logical step to open the install up to other people on campus. Hosting 10 blogs isn’t any harder than 1000 from an administrative [...]
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