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Blog Getting Errors Since WordPress 3.3.1

February 27, 2012 Blogaholic 0 comments

Although my job description does not entail troubleshooting blogs, I always find myself in the middle of a blog (whether Blogger or WordPress) issue outside the scope of blog design. Lately, I’ve had several design clients come to me when they upgraded to the latest version of WordPress (3.3.1) with the following notice appearing at the very top of the page underneath the admin bar: Notice: add_contextual_help is <strong>deprecated</strong> since [...]

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Headway Easy Hooks: Adding A Post Separator/Divider

February 22, 2012 Blogaholic 4 comments

One of the sweet things about Headway is that it lets you add more functionality to your site through nifty codes without actually messing around with the template files. It’s a nightmare for most bloggers, when they are asked to edit PHP, CSS or HTML. Well, with Headway you can keep your hands off of them. So how do you go about doing it? You use Easy Hooks. It’s my [...]

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Remove All Links From WordPress Images Using Functions.php

February 17, 2012 Blogaholic 4 comments

I just used the code below for a client’s WordPress site to remove all the links of her uploaded WordPress images from her posts. I am lazy as hell, y’all know that, and the thought of manually editing out the image links of 200+ posts just makes my head reel. So I took the easy way out, using the awesome functions.php. Thought I’d share, someone might find this code equally [...]

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I Lied

January 27, 2012 Blogaholic 22 comments

Lying to others is bad, but lying to yourself is unforgivable. In this case, however, I think I can forgive myself for lying that I am not going to redesign this blog look’s anytime soon. Here I am, just three months later, with a semi-new theme to add to my already growing list of “new looks”. Semi-new, because the layout is basically the same (I just removed the three-column footer [...]

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Change Default Comment Avatar In WordPress

December 4, 2011 Blogaholic 7 comments

I have a top commentator widget in my footer and some people have been asking how I managed to change the default WordPress comment avatar into an image tailored to fit into my theme. The current avatar options are fine, but do you really want something that looks like what everybody else is using on WordPress? Of course not. So how did I get my custom avatar image to show [...]

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