Stephanie Leary

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Video for Getting to WordPress (AKA how to import anything into WP) from WPCampus 2016

October 24, 2016 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

The video from my WPCampus 2016 talk, Getting to WordPress, is now available! https://youtu.be/cUx2raLevD4 Huge thanks to the WPCampus crew for their hard work on getting all these videos edited in their copious spare time.   … [Read more...]

Events, WordPress html import, import, presentation, wp all import, wpcampus

New WordPress plugin: Citation Importer

August 19, 2016 Stephanie Leary 2 Comments

The WordPress Citation Importer plugin imports individual citations, bibliography lists, or lists of DOIs into WordPress via the CrossRef Metadata API. Using a publication post type and/or a few custom fields, you could build a local database of publications for your company, … [Read more...]

WordPress citation importer, crossref, import

WPCampus 2016 presentation: Getting to WordPress

August 2, 2016 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

Here are my slides from my WPCampus talk, Getting to WordPress (AKA How to Import Absolutely Anything): http://www.slideshare.net/stephanieleary/getting-to-wordpress The video should be up soon! … [Read more...]

Events, WordPress html import, import, wp all import, wpcampus

Upcoming events for 2016: WPCampus, Content Strategy Summit, HighEdWeb

June 16, 2016 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

Tonight (and about once a month from now on), I'll be at the College Station WordPress Meetup. We're going to build a site from scratch as a demo for newbies. The second, smaller conference room will be available for advanced developers to chat. Locals, I hope to see you … [Read more...]

Events, WordPress content strategy, content strategy summit, events, highedweb, html import, import, meetup, wp all import, wpcampus

Redirect imported content to WordPress URLs

May 25, 2016 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

Are you importing posts from another CMS? Do you want to avoid an .htaccess file with a million redirects? Of course you do! Step 1: store your old pages' paths in a custom field during your import. Step 2: adapt this little function to your site. When a user lands on a 404 … [Read more...]

WordPress 404s, htaccess, html import, import, redirects

Import Delicious bookmarks as WordPress links or posts

December 16, 2010 Stephanie Leary 17 Comments

So, a while back, I was working on a Delicious importer for WordPress. It's an update of Guillermo Moreno's plugin, which imports bookmarks as posts. I added an option to bring them in as links, which made more sense to me, but there's a big problem: since the WordPress link … [Read more...]

WordPress del.icio.us, Delicious, import, Plugins

New plugin: Gallery2 to WordPress importer

November 30, 2010 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

This plugin allows you to import albums, images (with captions), and comments from a Gallery2 installation into your WordPress site. Albums will be saved as pages containing the [gallery] shortcode, and images will be saved as attachments. The album hierarchy will be preserved in … [Read more...]

WordPress gallery2, import, Plugins

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Fascism Watch

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Latest WordPress Book

Content Strategy for WordPress

A short book for content strategists and managers on implementing a complete content strategy in WordPress: evaluation, analysis, content modeling, editing and workflows, and long-term planning and maintenance.

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WordPress for Web Developers

WordPress for Web Developers (9781430258667)

This is a book for professional web designers and developers who already know HTML and CSS, and want to learn to build sites with WordPress. The book begins with a detailed tour of the administration screens and settings, then digs into server-side topics like performance and security. The second half of the book is devoted to development: learning to build WordPress themes and plugins.

This is the second, much-revised and updated edition of Beginning WordPress 3, with a more accurate title. Everything’s been updated for WordPress 3.6.

WordPress for Web Developers is out now. See what's inside...

The best WordPress features you’ve never noticed

  • WordPress Hidden Gems: Screen Options
  • WordPress Hidden Gems: Bulk Edit
  • WordPress Hidden Gems: Private Status
  • WordPress Hidden Gems: Dashboard Feed Readers
  • WordPress Hidden Gems: Options.php

Content Modeling for WordPress series

  • Content modeling for WordPress, part 1: analyze content
  • Content modeling for WordPress, part 2: functional and organizational requirements
  • Content modeling for WordPress, part 3: a sample content model

This is an excerpt from Content Strategy for WordPress.My latest books are Content Strategy for WordPress (2015) and WordPress for Web Developers (2013). Sign up to be notified when I have a new book for you.

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