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...] about Video for Getting to WordPress (AKA how to import anything into WP) from WPCampus 2016
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Slides http://www.slideshare.net/stephanieleary/wordpress-for-the-99 See also Getting to WordPress from WPCampus 2016 for tips on moving content from old sites into your new enterprise offering. Plugin List Network-activated Advanced Custom Fields BE Subpages … [Read more...] about HighEdWeb16 Links and Notes
New Inclusive Parents plugin adds more statuses to WordPress’s Parent Page options
There's a long-running feature/bug in WordPress that prevents you from using unpublished pages as parents: that is, you can't add child pages to anything that's set to private, password-protected, scheduled, pending, or draft. This prevents you from doing things like creating a … [Read more...] about New Inclusive Parents plugin adds more statuses to WordPress’s Parent Page options
New WordPress plugin: Citation Importer
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...] about New WordPress plugin: Citation Importer
Discount code for next week’s Content Strategy Summit
Next week, I'm speaking at the online Content Strategy Summit, along with a really intimidating lineup. Want 20% off your registration? Enter LEARY as your discount code. Registration gets you live attendance (ask questions!) AND access to the recordings afterward. See you (on … [Read more...] about Discount code for next week’s Content Strategy Summit
WPCampus 2016 presentation: Getting to WordPress
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...] about WPCampus 2016 presentation: Getting to WordPress
WordPress Hidden Gem: enter_title_here filter
When you're working with custom post types, sometimes the post title isn't a title. It might be a person's name, a building number, or a course code (just to take a few examples from universities). So it's great that WordPress has a simple filter that makes it easy to customize … [Read more...] about WordPress Hidden Gem: enter_title_here filter
Upcoming events for 2016: WPCampus, Content Strategy Summit, HighEdWeb
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...] about Upcoming events for 2016: WPCampus, Content Strategy Summit, HighEdWeb
Category (or taxonomy) drill-down pages
WordPress category archives are very inclusive. They list all the posts in a category, including all the child categories. This is also true for all other hierarchical taxonomies. If you have a deep hierarchy, it might make more sense to have your users drill down until they … [Read more...] about Category (or taxonomy) drill-down pages
WordPress Hidden Gem: Closed meta boxes filter
Sometimes, rather than hiding a meta box via screen options altogether, I want the box to be closed until the user opens it. WordPress has a filter that lets you add box IDs to the list of things that should be closed. The filter names are different for each post type. If you … [Read more...] about WordPress Hidden Gem: Closed meta boxes filter
