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

HighEdWeb16 Links and Notes

October 18, 2016 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

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...]

Events, WordPress heweb16, highedweb, presentation

New Inclusive Parents plugin adds more statuses to WordPress’s Parent Page options

September 23, 2016 Stephanie Leary 1 Comment

There's a long-running feature/bug in WordPress that prevents you from using unpublished pages as parents: that is, you can't add child pages to anything that's set to private, password-protected, scheduled, pending, or draft.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...]

WordPress inclusive parents, Plugins, private, Workflow

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

Discount code for next week’s Content Strategy Summit

August 18, 2016 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

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...]

Events, WordPress content strategy, content strategy summit

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

WordPress Hidden Gem: enter_title_here filter

June 21, 2016 Stephanie Leary 2 Comments

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...]

WordPress content modeling, content strategy, microtext

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

Category (or taxonomy) drill-down pages

June 14, 2016 Stephanie Leary 2 Comments

Diagram of three category pages. On the first two, for categories that have children, only a list of linked child categories is shown. The third, for a category with no more children, shows the usual post loop.

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...]

WordPress categories, content strategy, taxonomies, themes

WordPress Hidden Gem: Closed meta boxes filter

June 7, 2016 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

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...]

WordPress admin UX, filters, meta boxes

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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.

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The best WordPress features you’ve never noticed

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Content Modeling for WordPress series

  • Content modeling for WordPress, part 1: analyze content
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