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Stephanie Leary

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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There's a long-running feature/bug in WordPress that prevents you from using unpublished pages as parents: that is, you can't add child pages to anything that's set to private, password-protected, scheduled, pending, or draft.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...] about New Inclusive Parents plugin adds more statuses to WordPress’s Parent Page options

WordPress inclusive parents, Plugins, private, Workflow

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

Books, Featured, WordPress content modeling, content strategy, Custom Fields, custom post types, shortcodes, taxonomies, Workflow

Sharing notes among users

August 13, 2009 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

Dashboard Notepad is the simplest way to share notes on your Dashboard. The widget is configurable, so you can choose the minimum role that can edit the notes and the minimum role to be able to read them. … [Read more...] about Sharing notes among users

WordPress dashboard, notes, users, Workflow

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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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