Custom Post Types Presentation Materials for WordCamp Detroit 2011

Heather Acton Speaking at WordCamp Detroit

On November 13, 2011 I gave a presentation on Custom Post Types – What, Why, and How at WordCamp Detoit. Since I had just gone through a slow, but fairly steep learning curve on custom post types myself, I wanted to give others a leg up and share some of the best resources I found [...]

How to Add Additional Navigation Menus in Thesis

I’m hoping that with the talked-about-yet-still-forthcoming Thesis 2.0 this feature will be built-in, but as of Thesis 1.8 it is not. So, with that I bring you the code to insert additional menus into your Thesis website. Specifically we will add a secondary navigation menu after the header, and a footer navigation menu. Adding a [...]

How to Insert an Auto Updating Copyright Notice in Thesis

Let’s keep it short and simple on this one. The default Thesis footer is not a no-brainer to edit, especially if you haven’t worked with hooks before. And even if you have figured out how to add a custom footer using hooks, using the appropriate code so that your copyright date auto-updates is imperative, assuming [...]

How to Clean a Hacked WordPress Site

You hit Publish on a new blog post on your WordPress site and it won’t post. You are checking out how your site is ranking in Google today and notice your website description has been hijacked by Viagra salespeople. You type in the address to your site and your site doesn’t load… You’ve been hacked! [...]

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