Category Archives: WordPress

Get Adjacent Images – More WordPress Functions

Posted on August 4, 2009

WordPress, just get the adjacent image links. I’ll tell you what to do with them! WordPress is normally great about providing functions that have a return and an echo version.  In WordPress, if a function has the prefix get_, then … Continue reading →

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WordPress Digg Shortcode Function – As Seen on WordPress.com

Posted on July 23, 2009

When moving from WordPress.com, my Digg shortcodes broke. I wanted a simple way to transition my Digg chicklets to a WordPress.org installation. I created a function that does nothing special, except for reproducing the Digg shortcode functionality on WordPress.com. All … Continue reading →

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How to Tell if Your WordPress Widget is Active

Posted on June 2, 2009

Ever wonder if your widget is activated on an external site? Here’s how to find out. When you register a sidebar widget, you use code like this: register_sidebar_widget(array(‘Name of Widget’, ‘class-of-widget’), ‘widget_function’); If you want to check whether the widget … Continue reading →

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How to Create a Custom RSS Feed in WordPress in 12 Lines of Code

Posted on April 2, 2009

Custom RSS feed me, Seymour Recently I wanted to create a feed for Google base that used a bunch of custom fields that I had created. It wasn’t easy to find what I was looking for online, so I thought … Continue reading →

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Incorporate WordPress with Interspire Shopping Cart

Posted on March 30, 2009

I’m going to elaborate on this further (and about Interspire in general), but for those of you who want to make WordPress functions available throughout your shopping cart, here’s how: Before the closing ?> in the init.php file, add the following code: … Continue reading →

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SEODenver.com is new home of Denver Web Design & SEO Blog

Posted on January 15, 2009

I’ve taken the plunge: the katzwebdesign.wordpress.com site is now mapped to seodenver.com, a domain I purchased last year. I’m not sure what the long-term plans are for this domain, but at least I’ll be building links to my own domain, not … Continue reading →

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SEO Randomizer: Save the Value of Your SEO'd Links

Posted on December 19, 2008

Update: Now use the SEO WordSpinner plugin to implement this concept.Use the get_seo_spin() PHP function in your theme’s footer.php file. Footer links are dropping in SEO value How to stay relevant while getting great links As a web designer and … Continue reading →

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Nofollow SEO for your WordPress Functions

Posted on November 7, 2008

While working on a recent website, I became frustrated by the lack of nofollow support in many WordPress functions.  Make that, most WordPress functions. There are a few WP functions that I wanted to add nofollow to, so here’s a … Continue reading →

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SteveSpangler.com Web Design Launched

Posted on November 4, 2008

Visit Katz Web Design-developed SteveSpangler.com As announced in August, Steve Spangler chose Katz Web Design to develop their blog. Their previous blog was aging and didn’t provide the functionality they needed. I was provided with a design by Blake Sumrall … Continue reading →

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