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New book! Content Strategy for WordPress is now available

April 28, 2015 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

At long last, Content Strategy for WordPress is available everywhere! This is a relatively short book—less than half as long as WordPress for Web Developers was—and it’s aimed at a more general audience. Paradoxically, I’ve been working on it twice as long as on either of the … [Read more...] about New book! Content Strategy for WordPress is now available

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Call a navigation menu using a shortcode

July 13, 2010 Stephanie Leary 50 Comments

Today I came across a weird situation: I needed to place a navigation menu in the content of a page. A shortcode was the obvious solution, but there doesn't appear to be one built in for menus. I created this one very quickly: Place this in functions.php, then use [menu … [Read more...] about Call a navigation menu using a shortcode

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Listing child pages with a shortcode

June 8, 2010 Stephanie Leary 7 Comments

If you don't want to list child pages on all your empty pages using a [link id="2865"]page template[/link] or a [link id="5246"]filter[/link], you can create a simple shortcode: Then place [[children]] in your page content where you want the list to appear. … [Read more...] about Listing child pages with a shortcode

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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

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