Want more control over your Wordpress widgets?
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This plug-in enables you to select which widgets appear on specific posts, pages, categories,author’s posts and tag pages. By default, all widgets appear wherever the sidebar is loaded within your theme. With this plug-in, you can configure where widgets are displayed on a per post or per WP Template (Using conditional Tags) basis. By ThaSlayer.
I have used Slayer’s Custom Widgets on many sites and it has been a life saver , it adds a level of flexibility that I would love to see in the standard Wordpress install one day.
PHP Redirect
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I had to setup a rederect file on a clients site today in order to pass a tracking value from a site that would not allow long url’s and I found this perfect one line of code :
Time Required: 1 Minute
The Code:
<?php
header( ‘Location: http://www.yoursite.com/any_page.html’ ) ;
?>
You need to replace the URL above with the URL you wish to direct to.
CFORMSII Bug - Add form box not working
By · CommentsI use the CFormsII Wordpress plug-in by Delicious Days on several blogs and have had a bug / error appear on 
several of them. When in the page editor; CformsII provides a button to allow you to add a form to the page , when not properly installed this button shows an error. Here is how I corrected that error:
- Deactivate the plug-in in Wordpress
- Go to your server and change the permissions to the CFormsII folder to 777 ( how do I change permissions? - UNIX - Windows)
- Reactivate the plug-in making sure to use the “activate” link and not the check-box.
This fixed the problem for me , I hope it helps you.
The pure power that is Wordpress
By · CommentsI have been using Wordpress (WP) since version 2 and have watched it go from a neat little piece of software to a juggernaut. 
After designing several hundred websites using all different variations of software ranging from hand coded HTML / PHP websites to PHP Nuke, Joomla and many other opensource packages, I have found my holy grail, Wordpress. There is nothing that this free software can’t do. I now build all my clients websites on this platform from the “Mom and Pop” shops to high end clients like Toyota and the like. Wordpress has cut my site development time by 75% that is nothing to sneeze at, it allows me to service more clients and it saves my clients money as well as giving them the ability to maintain their own website content; the ultimate gift - freedom to control their own destiny.
Wordpress is advertised as blog software but I contend that is so much more then that, I have built shopping comparison engines, dictonary sites, wiki’s, lead generation sites, help desk sites, CRM Intranet sites, e-commerce sites and much much more all based on Wordpress.
Wordpress is also extremely search engine friendly which means that more people will find your site as specially if you take the time to groom your content properly.
If your looking to build a website and think you can’t afford it, now you can! Wordpress sites can start as low as $100 for a basic website setup , so for the cost of a typical gas bill you can have a web presence. Whodda thunk it!
My hat goes off to the Wordpress team for changing the landscape of the Internet!
What the heck is Wordpress??
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WordPress has a templating system, which includes widgets that can be rearranged without editing PHP or HTML code, as well as themes that can be installed and switched between. The PHP and HTML code in themes can also be edited for more advanced customizations. WordPress also features integrated link management; a search engine-friendly, clean permalink structure; the ability to assign nested, multiple categories to articles; multiple author capability; and support for tagging of posts and articles. Automatic filters that provide for proper formatting and styling of text in articles (for example, converting regular quotes to smart quotes) are also included. WordPress also supports the Trackback and Pingback standards for displaying links to other sites that have themselves linked to a post or article. Finally, WordPress has a rich plugin architecture which allows users and developers to extend its functionality beyond the features that come as part of the base install.