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Archive for May, 2011

How To Make Sticky Posts Even Stickier In WordPress

How To Make Sticky Posts Even Stickier In WordPress

As WordPress becomes more of a content management API and framework there are times when some of its legacy features are too mired in the context of “blog” to really be useful when it’s in use as a full content management system. Sticky posts are a great example. They only work on the index page (or custom blog page if… continue reading

Liverpool WordPress Interest Group (SWIG) Meeting – 25th May 2011

Liverpool WordPress Interest Group (SWIG) Meeting – 25th May 2011

SWIG is great! SWIG is ace! Swig is every fourth Wednesday of the month at 6:30pm. We talk about WordPress. A lot.

WordPress (and others) Search and Replace Tool

WordPress (and others) Search and Replace Tool

WordPress has a habit of storing serialized PHP data in the database. This is fine if you’re working in PHP, but when you migrate a website from one domain to another it’s very easy to affect strings and corrupt this data. This search & replace tool can help you to make changes without inadvertently affecting settings such as widgets which could leave you with a very broken and time consuming migration.