Category Archives: Wordpress

Using Session Variables and Domain Aliases to Change the WordPress URL

By Chris Carvache | Published: March 12, 2011

Alright, so I ran into an interesting situation the other day.  Here’s the scenario… A client of mine needed a website redesign that basically combined two sites into one.  She had two almost IDENTICAL sites that only differed slightly.  Aside from a couple of different pages and some price changes on the courses she offered, [...]

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Automatic WordPress Updates with SVN

By Chris Carvache | Published: October 20, 2010

I just saw this article and wanted to let people know about it. Anything in my opinion that saves time is a winner! http://simpledream.net/2010/10/19/wordpress-auto-updates-svn/

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Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin and Thematic Integration

By Chris Carvache | Published: October 17, 2010

I recently had the pleasure of installing the Yoast WordPress SEO plugin.  Its fully featured and absolutely epic.  However, being that I use Thematic on every installation of WordPress, I noticed that the plugin didn’t rewrite my titles!  This was very disappointing and I considered moving back to my old SEO plugin.  After digging and [...]

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PODS Code Generator Plugin

By Chris Carvache | Published: October 14, 2010

I decided a couple of months ago to create a plugin that would integrate with the Pods plugin and generate code.  I found myself doing the same thing over and over and over so, naturally I’ll let the computer do all the work.  I’m rounding the corner to a simple alpha version of the plugin.  [...]

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Thematic CMS Starter Theme v1.1

By Chris Carvache | Published: October 9, 2010

I’ve just finished the last touches on my Thematic CMS Starter Theme.   Doing so also required that I change around the page structure of this site slightly.  Now the child theme will have its own page instead of just a blog article. Download a copy and check it out!

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Prevent WordPress from Changing Your Code

By Chris Carvache | Published: October 8, 2010

WordPress has a REALLY annoying habit of altering the code on posts and pages.  It adds P tags, it removes P tags.  It will remove div’s with no content in it.  Just basically terrible things happening all the time.  Thankfully there is FINALLY a way to get WordPress from ‘cleaning-up’ our code.

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Thematic CMS Starter Theme v1.0

By Chris Carvache | Published: September 19, 2010

At work we use WordPress on 95% of our projects.  And since we’ve discovered Thematic, we’ve used that theme on 100% of all our WordPress projects.  When we use WordPress we use it as CMS engine.  That being the case we need to use Thematic in the same fashion.  We found ourselves doing the same [...]

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HelloTXT Mod

By Chris Carvache | Published: September 16, 2010

I’ve decided to work on creating a cool plugin for HelloTXT.  The original one barely functioned so, I made a bunch of modifications to it and am planning a feature release.  Check out the plugin’s homepage built on the awesome and slick Acamas theme.

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WordPress as a CMS: Dynamic Homepage

By Chris Carvache | Published: February 23, 2009

Welcome to this series of articles.  While there are many articles written on this subject I have seen very few that focus on CMS theme creation techniques. Seems like most are just lists of CMS enabling plugins.  While these are definitely important, they leave out a critical piece of the puzzle – So with that [...]

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