We’re considering running some WordPress training courses in Dublin and trying to find out what kind of interest there is out there. We’re particularly interested in getting answers to some or all of the following:

• What time of day and week would suit you best?
• What level of WordPress knowledge do you have?
• What level of computer knowledge do you have?
• How long should each class be?
• How many classes should we run per course?
• Would you bring your own laptop if that was required?
• What would you consider a fair price ?

If you’d like to attend a live classes somewhere in Dublin on learning WordPress, please leave a comment below with a real email address so we can contact you if it goes ahead.

If you’re interested in online WordPress training, check out SelfAssemblySites.com

I’m a fan of the SimpleFolio theme – that’s the WordPress theme we currently (March 2011) use here on LogOn. SimpleFolio was designed by Omar E. Corrales and released under GPL, meaning you can modify and use it for any project for free, without any restrictions (read the GPL for the fine print).

Recently, just after a WordPress upgrade, the portfolio slider items stopped displaying on the homepage. I believe that Omar is working on a WordPress 3 update for SimpleFolio, but in the meantime there is a simple fix that you can apply to get your portfolio working if it’s broken.
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I’m sometimes asked why I use and recommend WordPress as a CMS, instead of one of the other options like Joomla, Drupal, Expression Engine, etc. Here are some of the many reasons why I choose and recommend WordPress as CMS for many organisation’s web needs. Continue Reading »

Sometimes you’ll find that images are not aligning to the left or right in your WordPress Page or Post, or image wrapping doesn’t occur properly, even though you se them aligned correctly in the visual editor.

This is usually caused by Continue Reading »

This is a WordPress Quick Tip: How to add an “Edit this page” link to your WordPress posts and pages that will only be displayed if you are logged in.

First, find the location where you want to display the link. A good place to put it is either just before, or just after the main content of the page.
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This is a quick blog tip on how to add support for the new custom menus in WordPress 3 into a theme that doesn’t already support them.

For this example I’m going to setup two menus: a header menu for the top of the page, and a footer menu for the bottom.

First, we need to register the menus with the theme. To do that, open the /wp-content/themes/YourThemeName/functions.php file and add this code to the bottom (before the closing “?>”):


/* Register Menus*/
function register_my_menus() {
register_nav_menus(
array( 'header-menu' => __( 'Header Menu' ), 'footer-menu' => __( 'Footer Menu' ))
);
}
add_action( 'init', 'register_my_menus' );


Now the theme knows it can support custom menus. Next we need to tell the theme where it can put them – we do this by placing calls to the wp_nav_menu() function where we want the menus to appear. Continue Reading »

This post is to test the syndication feature over on my personal website at AlastairMcDermott.com. I’ve set it up to syndicate posts from all of the different blogs that I write, so that I can continue to keep each in it’s own location, but have an up to date personal site.

I’ll write up a post sometime detailing how the whole thing works, I think it’s pretty cool.

I was recently asked about using custom fields in WordPress and I thought it was worthy of a quick blog post. I’ve seen custom fields used for many different things from review ratings (e.g “3/5 stars“) to mood messages (“Today I feel like listening to  loud metal and shouting at my housemates“), etc. For this example, let’s use a very simple real case we recently dealt with.

We wanted to have an image appear at the top of the WordPress Page or Post, under the headline but above the text. We wanted the image to be shown whenever we supplied one. Here’s how we implemented it. Continue Reading »

We’re planning to post some great code snippets, for some simple but very useful functions, here on the blog. Stay tuned :)