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Which search engine has the deepest cache?

13. September 2009

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If you have a computer or server catastrophe, it might be necessary to rebuild your blog or website.  If, for some reason, your backup files are also damaged or disappeared, it might be necessary to find another way to restore your previous pages and/or posts. The major search engines all have a “cache”, that is a temporarily [...]

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Just a little line of code

10. July 2009

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One hard-fought battle, one very small victory.  This one took a little effort <?php query_posts(’showposts=7&order=ASC’); if (have_posts()) : ?> It displays  a list of posts in a footer  - not to exceed 7 – with the oldest date displayed first. The answer to why I wanted to do that is complicated………..

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Editing an encoded WordPress footer

28. March 2009

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 Did you ever download a theme you really wanted to use for your business, but you found the theme’s footer contained a link to, say, a site promoting “Triple XXX Rated Adult Toys”.  And when you went to edit the link out of the footer, all you could see was a string of encoded characters? Searching [...]

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How to rename a WordPress Theme

30. December 2008

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If you work with customizing WordPress Themes, you most likely make multiple copies of each theme you work on; for safe keeping.  And that is a very sensible thing to do. On the other hand, you might end up with 2, 3, 4 or more copies of the same theme in your WordPress Dashboard Manage Themes screen, [...]

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Installing WordPress MU on GoDaddy – Yes! It Can Be Done!

25. December 2008

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As a real estate broker, I have been toying with the idea of using WordPress MU (multiple user) to handle my single property web sites.  One WordPress Installation, One Hosting Fee To Pay,  Many Different Blogs. So, one of the first questions was …. could I do it on GoDaddy?  If you search the web and the [...]

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Happy Holidays, Chris Pearson

25. December 2008

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Over the last several months, I have customized a bunch of WordPress Themes.  I found the free themes with the cleanest code, and therefore the easiest to customize were Chris Pearson’s:  Copyblogger, Cutline and NeoClassical to name a few. Anyway, I figured I owed Chris one, so I purchased a developer license for his premium theme, Thesis.  [...]

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Miracle of Miracles

26. November 2008

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This is magic, miraculous code!  The two divs actually sit nicely side by side with one floated left and one floated right: <div style=”width:65%; float:left; padding-left:30px; padding-top:10px; padding-bottom:10px;”><img src=”http://www.goldenbrewski.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/brickranch00.jpg”> </div> <div id=”image_flicker” style=”width22%; float:right; padding-top:20px; padding-right:20px;”></div>

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Coding nav_menu.php

20. November 2008

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This is the original nav_menu.php code: <li><a <?php if (is_home()) echo(’class=”current” ‘); ?>href=”<?php bloginfo(’url’); ?>”>home</a></li> <li><a <?php if (is_page(’archives’)) echo(’class=”current” ‘); ?>href=”<?php bloginfo(’url’); ?>/archives/”>archives</a></li> <li><a <?php if (is_page(’about’)) echo(’class=”current” ‘); ?>href=”<?php bloginfo(’url’); ?>/about/”>about</a></li> First, I changed it to this: <li><a <?php if (is_home()) echo(’class=”current” ‘); ?>href=”<?php bloginfo(’url’); ?>”>Home</a></li><?php wp_list_pages(’sort_column=id&depth=1&title_li=’); ?> Then I decided to manually code in the links, so I [...]

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Open on Static Page

20. November 2008

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To open on a static page Click “Settings” at the upper right corner of the Dashboard Click “Reading” At “Front page displays” check “A static page” and choose a page from the drop down list. If you have not already done so, click “Write”, “Write Page” and create a new page titled “Blog”.  Just type in the title.  Do [...]

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Insert Header Image

17. November 2008

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Simple insertion of header image: <div id=”header”> <img src=”http://www.bobtaylorproperties.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/policy002.jpg“> <p><br></p> <div id=”logo”> <?php if (is_home()) { ?> <?php } else { ?>  <p id=”tagline”><?php bloginfo(’description’); ?></p> <?php } ?> </div> </div> Remove this line:  <h1><?php bloginfo(’description’); ?></h1>

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