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One of the things that drove me to WordPress was the fact that it was PHP based. It leaves the doors wide open for you to do practically any kind of hack you could possibly think of. I recently reworked Pixelog.org for Christine. The original was a table based design, powered by MT. Now it's […]

04 Sep, 2004

Limit drop down comments

Posted by: Jennifer In: WordPress: Lessons Learned

I'm kind of surprised I didn't post this already (maybe I did and I just can't find it) – but on another blog, I have drop down comments set so it only does this for the first 'x' number of posts with comments. (Otherwise download times can get a little bogged down if there's a […]

05 Jun, 2004

Optionally show excerpt

Posted by: Jennifer In: WordPress: Lessons Learned

There may be another way to do this, but I wanted to show the excerpt, but only if I had actually typed something in. Just doing the following, will show part of the post if there's no excerpt (maybe I was doing it wrong?): <?php the_excerpt(); ?> In any case, I use the "excerpt" field […]

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Charlene just mentioned this in the comments of another post, so I thought I'd post how I'm doing it on my pages (or will be doing it – once I finish them all) After the "WordPress Post loop" begins (which starts like this) : <?php if ($posts) : foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp(); ?> […]

22 May, 2004

Change allowed tags in comments

Posted by: Jennifer In: WordPress: Lessons Learned

There's security reasons why the tags that are allowed are limited to the ones listed, but if you must have something like imgs allowed in your comments, here's an explanation of how to change that. (kses.php is in your wp-includes folder)

I'm so used to the way MT works – switching to a different system is taking a little getting used to. (I told Matt that I need MT Rehab) ;o) In any case – if you want something to show up only on a page where one post is displayed, wrap it in this code: […]


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  • Scott: Just moved changed the site URL as WP's installed in a subfolder. Cookie clearance worked for me. Thanks!
  • Stephen Lareau: Hi great blog thanks. Just thought I would add that it helps to put target = like this:1-800-555-1212 and
  • Cord Blomquist: Jennifer, you may want to check out tp2wp.com, a new service my company just launched that converts TypePad and Movable Type export files into WordPre

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