WordPress

Ok, WordPress users, here’s a question for you: When you add an image to a post or a page, how many of you fill out all the fields in “Attachment Details” window? Yup, that’s about what I thought. The few of you who raised your hands can put them down. I understand, I really do. You’re in a hurry to get that post up, and filling out form fields isn’t something you necessarily want to do. I admit...

Oh, WordPress, we love you so very much, but sometimes you can be… well, let’s call it a little strange. Not so weird that it’s a problem, but sometimes you do things I don’t expect you to do. Like last week, when I was putting an image into a blog post. Normally, placing an image in a post is no big deal. But last week when I was putting a captioned image into a post, WordPress changed the styling of the text...

So you got yourself a fancy new digital camera with umpteen bazillion megapixels, and you are ready to start showing your work on your website. Before you start uploading all those great duckface photos, you should spend a little time optimizing those images for the web. If you remember dial-up internet, you’ll remember the agonizing wait as images appeared on your screen line-by-line; it could take 10 minutes or more for a...

WordPress makes uploading and working with images in posts a fairly straightforward proposition. With the inclusion of the drag-and-drop uploader, things got even easier. But every once in a while, you’ll run into an issue, as we did when we were developing the Deluxe site. We were rolling along, getting material together for the “About Us” page, working in the visual editor within WordPress and cheerfully writing...

Since I’m spending the midday of this gorgeous – but a little chilly – Saturday researching WP real estate plugins, it occurred to me that this is exactly how I feel today… BTW, if you have not chanced upon seeing “The IT Crowd”, I heartily recommend that you do. Funny, funny stuff, and available on...

(Author’s note: This post is the first in a continuing series describing issues we at Deluxe have run into with WordPress, and how we worked around them. We’re calling it NerdPress, because it will be pretty geeky at times, with all the code and whatnot. It is our hope that these posts will be helpful and informative to others in the WordPress community.) We obviously love WordPress. It is our CMS of choice for a laundry...