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Stephanie Leary

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preserving HTML

February 19, 2010 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

Several of the description fields in WordPress will strip any HTML entered into them. You can preserve them with a little work, though. User Descriptions The biography field on the user profile page accepts a limited number of HTML tags — the same ones allowed in comments. If you … [Read more...] about preserving HTML

WordPress bio, biography, categories, descriptions, html, Metadata, rich text, tags, taxonomy, Users and Roles

using shortcodes everywhere

February 13, 2010 Stephanie Leary 104 Comments

Read this in Spanish | Leer esta en Español Read this in Turkish | Türkçe bunu okuyun At the moment, shortcodes in WordPress are processed only in post/page content. You can use them in lots of other places, though, if you enable them for each field you want. Here's how to use … [Read more...] about using shortcodes everywhere

WordPress bio, biography, categories, Content, descriptions, html, Metadata, rich text, shortcodes, tags, taxonomy, template tags

Take control of your excerpts

February 9, 2010 Stephanie Leary 4 Comments

Here are three short functions you can add to your theme's functions.php file to change the way excerpts work on your site. When you use the_excerpt() in a theme file, WordPress will first use the contents of the Excerpt field from your Post→Edit screen. If it's empty, … [Read more...] about Take control of your excerpts

WordPress excerpts, Metadata, Posts and Pages

Using categories and tags as meta keywords

August 15, 2009 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

Your categories and keywords are valuable bits of metadata, but WordPress doesn't use them in its meta tags. Even the popular All in One SEO Pack plugin uses only categories, not tags. … [Read more...] about Using categories and tags as meta keywords

WordPress categories, keywords, Metadata, tags, template tags, Templates

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I’m a front end developer at Equinox OLI, working on open source library software. I was previously a freelance WordPress developer in higher education. You can get in touch here or on LinkedIn.

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