Stephanie Leary

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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...]

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

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...]

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

Listing child pages

August 9, 2009 Stephanie Leary 2 Comments

The Codex offers a way to list the children of the current page by adding this to your theme: … [Read more...]

WordPress Navigation, pages, Posts and Pages, template tags

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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