Tag Archives: Plugin

Add “Preview” Link to Manage Themes

Ever since WordPress added a Live Preview option to the Manage Themes screen, it’s been frustrating to test a plugin using multiple themes. Why Live Preview sucks for developers When using Live Preview, you can’t modify the URL of the … Continue reading

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Simple Way to Get Plugin Status in WordPress

I have previously written on how to determine if a widget is active. This is helpful for widgets, but not for plugins. WordPress has a couple of different functions that help you determine plugin status. They are both located in … Continue reading

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Yourls Google Analytics Link Tagging

In my last post, I wrote about the benefits of using YOURLS, a self-hosted link-shortening service. I’m finding that YOURLS is great, but it’s not perfect. Some of the issues I have experience are part of what you get using most … Continue reading

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Show Content Only Plugin – A Perfect Keyword Research Companion

Download the Plugin from WordPress.org Another WordPress SEO Plugin by Katz Web Services The Show Content Only Plugin enables you to show only a post or page’s content, without sidebars, footers, and other content. There are many different reasons for wanting … Continue reading

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How to Prevent Loading WP-DownloadManager’s CSS File

If you want to disable the WordPress plugin WP-DownloadManager‘s download-css.css file from being loaded, add the following code to your functions.php file: remove_action(‘wp_print_styles’, ‘downloads_stylesheets’); Alternatively, if you would just like to use your own stylesheet, you can add a file … Continue reading

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Strip Extra ImageScaler Attribute from Plugin-Generated Code

I am using the ImageScaler plugin for WordPress on a project, and I like what it does, but it adds a non-standards-compliant attribute to images, such as: <img class=”" src=”http://www.example.com/imagescaler/generated-image.jpg” alt=”Example” width=”258″ height=”234″ imagescaler=”http://www.example.com/imagescaler/original-image.jpg” /> To strip imagescaler’s imagescaler attribute, … Continue reading

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Simple Taxonomies Formatting — Improve the Plugin’s Code Output

I’ve been using Joost de Valk’s Simple Taxonomies plugin for a couple of projects, and I’ve been very disappointed by the formatting of the terms output code. When configuring the plugin, you have the option of choosing “Add terms to … Continue reading

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Simple Vertical Align Plugin for jQuery

Sometimes you may want to vertically align a block item, but the CSS-only vertical aligning methods don’t make you feel clean.  Personally, I hate having to style items as a table/table cell to get them to vertically align in Internet Explorer. … Continue reading

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MomJobSeeker.com launched!

Mom Job Seeker prepares mothers re-entering the workplace after their kids have grown up a bit. April Stensgard, owner, contacted Katz Web Design with the goal of having a business blog that would facilitate online event registration. Faced with this task, … Continue reading

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How I fixed WP-DownloadManager 404 errors

I use LesterChan‘s Download Manager plugin, and it’s great. Good interface, simple purpose.  I recently found out that after upgrading a client’s site to WP 2.5, WP-DownloadManager was no longer working.  I followed the documentation on the plugin website, including resetting … Continue reading

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