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How to Embed Documents into WordPress

March 26, 2013 by Lee hodson Leave a Comment

Embedding documents into websites is super easy with Google docs. No Google account needed. No API key needed. Just follow the link to the tool: https://docs.google.com/gview/ Once there, paste the URL of the file you want to embed into the Document URL field and press Generate. Copy the embed code into your page. This works for WordPress too! Upload the doc to be embedded with the WordPress Media Uploader (Media > Add New) Edit the uploaded media so you can grab its URL Visit https://docs.google.com/gview/ Paste the media's ULR into the the Document URL field Press … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Wordpress Tagged With: code, Documents, Embed, page, post, URL, website, Wordpress

Super Easy WordPress Theme Design with Dynamik for Genesis

March 6, 2013 by Lee hodson 2 Comments

Q: What do you get when you cross a lazy web designer with Google search? A: A Genesis child theme overflowing with options for near drag'n'drop visual theme styling. I'm guessing you're lazy too or you wouldn't have made the same search I did. I build a lot of Genesis child themes. Some I design around existing child themes and others I build around the default Genesis theme. Many of the features and changes I make to child themes are the same: Setting the body background color Setting a body background image Changing menu colors Making the page narrower or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Dynamik Tagged With: apps, bad, code, css, dynamik, genesis, good, Google, page, Recommended Plugins, sites, theme design, visual theme editor, Wordpress

BuddyPress Dynamic Links in Pages, Posts and Widgets with BuddyMenu Plugin

January 4, 2013 by Lee hodson 32 Comments

BuddyLink shortcodes being used in TinyMCE running Ultimate TinyMCE and Visual Bakery Compozer

BuddyMenu BuddyLinks does three things really well: BuddyPress menu widgets, BuddyPress menu shortcodes and BuddyPress dynamic link shortcodes. Easily put BuddyPress menus and dynamic user links in sidebars, posts, pages, widget areas and anywhere else a widget or shortcode can go. This WordPress plugin needs BuddyPress to work. There is no need to network activate it in WP Multisite. BuddyMenu displays to logged in visitors only. Why BuddyMenu BuddyLinks BuddyPress menus are dynamic. Their URLs change for each logged in user. This makes it difficult for most community admins and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Plugins, Wordpress Tagged With: Add New Plugins, BuddyPress, BuddyPress Menus, BuddyPress Plugin, faq, Installation, Main Features, page, Usage Instructions, Wordpress, WordPress Plugin

Uninstall W3 Total Cache – The Proper Way

September 5, 2011 by Lee hodson 64 Comments

A few days ago I began the process of removing W3 Total Cache from all my blogs and replacing it with Quick Cache WP Super Cache. Why, you might wonder, would I do that. The simple answer is that W3 Total Cache conflicted one too many times with other plugins. I'm getting old and tired and I'm fast coming over to the idea that if a plugin's too much hassle to setup then it shouldn't call itself a plugin so much as it should call itself a nail in sanity's coffin. You'd expect it to be easy to remove W3 Total Cache. And it should be but it hooks its tentacles into a blog's htaccess file, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Wordpress Tagged With: blogs, get rid of w3tc, plugin, plugins, remove, uninstall W3 Total Cache, W3 Total Cache, W3TC, Wordpress

HowTo: WordPress Code Syntax Highlighting

August 22, 2011 by Lee hodson 7 Comments

For months and months and months I've been looking for a good code syntax highlighter for WordPress. My requirements are simple: 1, the highlighter mustn't add lots and lots of div and table tags around my code and, 2, it should add a TinyMCE pre tag button to the visual editor. If I had the knowledge and the time to write such a plugin I would. Thankfully I don't need to do that anymore because I've found nearly 2 halves of the solution in two different plugins. The first plugin is TinyMCE Preformatted. It fulfills requirement number two by putting a button into the visual editor for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Wordpress, Wordpress Tagged With: class attributes, highlighters, pop ups, Prettify GC Syntax Highlighter, syntax highlighter, TinyMCE Preformatted, Wordpress, WordPress syntax highlighting

Shhhh!!!! WordPress, Don’t Shout About your Break-in Then

June 23, 2011 by Lee hodson 1 Comment

Just in case you missed it, because I did, WordPress.org had a security breech this week. Several plugins were updated by a hacker (or hackers) who installed backdoor exploits into AddThis, WPTouch and W3 Total Cache that may have compromised self-hosted WordPress websites. The official statement posted by Matt Mullenweg (founding developer of WordPress) at wordpress.org on the 21st July, explains: "Earlier today the WordPress team noticed suspicious commits to several popular plugins (AddThis, WPtouch, and W3 Total Cache) containing cleverly disguised backdoors. We determined the commits … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Wordpress Tagged With: back door, breech, exploit, news, security, Wordpress