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Search Engine Optimization for WordPress

I love WordPress! I love WordPress as a blogger, theme developer and web designer for the simplicity and complexity at the same time, for the clean code that is generated and the WordPress community. And not last and not least I love WordPress for its search engine optimization. › Continue reading

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Superfish jQuery Menu IE z-index Bug

As a good and stable dropdown menu I’m using the Superfish jQuery menu plugin by Joel Birch. Superfish is an enhanced Suckerfish-style menu jQuery plugin that is quite easy to customize.

I really like this dropdown menu and in Firefox (as almost always) everything worked properly. But then I tested in IE. The source code was similar to this › Continue reading

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What do you think about selling premium WordPress themes?

Is selling premium WordPress themes against Open Source philosophy? Can we charge for Open Source WP-tags in our code? What exactly do we charge for?

Currently there is an interesting discussion on “How to sell premium WordPress themes?” on Outlaw Design Blog.

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Create Custom Write Panels in WordPress

Spencer from Function Web Design & Development wrote a very good tutorial about how to add custom write panels in WordPress. Learn how to output extra meta boxes in your write posts panel to add custom meta data to your posts. Since the WordPress reference is a bit hard to understand, this tutorial is very helpful.

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Display Future Posts in Your WordPress Theme

Today I want to focus on a very interesting feature of WordPress - the timestamp of a post or how to set a post on schedule and - and what else can we do with future posts.

Maybe this happened to you once

All of a sudden you have a lot of inspiration and ideas for posts on your blog. Your head is full with first class content and you want to write 5 posts… one after another. But since we all know that publishing all these posts at once is a waste of energy, we decide to spread the new content across several days or even weeks.

Or maybe you go on vacation for four weeks (lucky you!) but you want to keep offering your ‘Friday Web Design Blog Review’.

Wouldn’t it be nice to run your blog on autopilot?

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