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Short How-To articles, similar to Case Studies but on a smaller scale.

May 5, 2016 By Jeff Cohan Leave a Comment

Are Your iPhone Photos Upside-Down or Sideways?

Are Your iPhone Photos Upside-Down or Sideways?

Are Your iPhone Photos Upside-Down or Sideways? If so, I have a solution. (I even have a partial explanation. Emphasis on “partial”.)

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Filed Under: Techniques Tagged With: Images, iPhone, Media, WordPress

February 18, 2016 By Jeff Cohan 4 Comments

Read Blogs More Efficiently (and Enhance your Blog Reading Experience) Using Categories and Tags

Read Blogs More Efficiently (and Enhance your Blog Reading Experience) Using Categories and Tags

Boy, if there isn’t a whole lot of junk out there on the Web! But there’s also a lot of good stuff. Unfortunately, finding the good stuff can be difficult. So much of that junk just gets in the way. Even if you’ve found a blog (or blogs) you like to read, you might be spending too much time sifting through articles that are of no real interest to you. At some point, you probably give up. This article is written for people who read blogs. If you’re one of them, the tips herein might make your blog-surfing time more efficient and rewarding.

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Filed Under: Techniques Tagged With: Blogging, Taxonomies, WordPress

February 17, 2016 By Jeff Cohan Leave a Comment

Which Categories and Tags Should I Use?

Which Categories and Tags Should I Use?

For people who are new to blogging, the concepts of Categories and Tags can be confusing. The first challenge is understanding what they are and how they differ. The next challenge is using them effectively. The purpose of this article is to offer guidance in addressing that second challenge.

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Filed Under: Techniques Tagged With: Blogging, Taxonomies, WordPress

October 26, 2015 By Jeff Cohan 24 Comments

How to use Advanced Custom Fields with Genesis

How to use Advanced Custom Fields with Genesis

I can’t explain why I’ve waited so long to try out the Advanced Custom Fields plugin. All I can say is I’m glad I finally did. Today. This article will show you one simple method for displaying the values of those custom fields in your Genesis child theme.

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Filed Under: Techniques Tagged With: Advanced Custom Fields, Genesis, Plugins, WordPress

September 16, 2015 By Jeff Cohan Leave a Comment

CSS Descendant Selectors

CSS Descendant Selectors

CSS descendant selectors (also known as contextual selectors) allow you to write lean, clean, semantic html and CSS markup with a minimum number of class and ID names, making your code easier to understand and maintain, and maybe even giving you a sense of harmonious calm. In this article, I explain this claim with an example.

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Filed Under: Techniques Tagged With: CSS

June 4, 2015 By Jeff Cohan Leave a Comment

Sort Multidimensional Arrays with PHP array_multisort

Sort Multidimensional Arrays with PHP array_multisort

Without question, the most common operation in the Web applications I build is retrieving gobs of structured data and displaying that data in some order. In most cases, the data comes from database tables. But not always. In this article, I share what I’ve found out about how one can use the array_multisort function to sort multidimensional arrays.

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Filed Under: Techniques Tagged With: Arrays, php, Web applications

May 28, 2015 By Jeff Cohan Leave a Comment

Customizing WordPress Using Vendor-Built Child Themes

Customizing WordPress Using Vendor-Built Child Themes

While the child theme method works well for many WordPress Web-site builds, sites based on vendor-built child themes require a different strategy. This article describes my current favorite approach and invites discussion on the topic.

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Filed Under: Techniques Tagged With: Child Themes, mu-plugins, WooThemes, WordPress

May 15, 2014 By Jeff Cohan Leave a Comment

How to add an About Us blurb to every WordPress blog post

How to add an About Us blurb to every WordPress blog post

While WordPress has functions and template tags for displaying “About the Author” information on single blog post pages (in fact, many themes innately support this), there’s nothing similar for displaying “About Us” information. This article offers a simple method for adding an “About Us” blurb after the main text of every single blog post. And I hope it gets your wheels turning about ways to add customized content to your WordPress Web site.

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Filed Under: Techniques Tagged With: php, WordPress

May 9, 2014 By Jeff Cohan Leave a Comment

Underlining for Emphasis: How to un-underline text on a Web page with CSS

Underlining for Emphasis: How to un-underline text on a Web page with CSS

No matter how loudly and often we tell our clients who maintain their own Web sites (via WordPress and other CMS-driven platforms) that using underlining for emphasis on the Web is a very bad idea, many of them do it anyway. This article explains, first of all, why this practice is a bad idea, and then it offers a simple CSS solution for removing underlines that shouldn’t appear on Web pages.

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Filed Under: Techniques Tagged With: CSS, HTML, WordPress

March 10, 2014 By Jeff Cohan Leave a Comment

Don’t use the admin username in WordPress

Don’t use the admin username in WordPress

This screenshot should confirm that using the admin username in your WordPress installation is a bad idea.

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Filed Under: Techniques Tagged With: Security, WordPress

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