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How to Expand the WordPress Media Manager Interface

This is an advanced tutorial on how to expand the WordPress media manager interface with new options. In particular, I want to expand the drop-down menu in the media manager menu so that I can do searches based on posts, pages, and custom post types, as well as include their thumbnails into my galleries. Other media manager tutorials include - How to Add the WordPress 3.5 Media Manager Interface [...]

How to Add the WordPress 3.5 Media Manager Interface - Part 2

How to make some simple customization to the WordPress 3.5 media manager interface.

Custom Post Type Permalinks - Part 2

How to fully customize and create our own permalinks for custom post type objects.

[ Post gallery rendered using Shiba Gallery Plugin. Halloween theme from Think, Draw, Art!]

How to Harness the Power of WordPress Gutenberg Blocks and Combine It with Legacy Free-Form Text

We modify the WordPress Gutenberg editor so that we can use free-form text blocks as before and combine them with the power of blocks. In this way, we get the new power of Gutenberg blocks without losing our previous ability to smoothly write text without the cumbersome blocks interface.

Migrating Your WordPress Website to Amazon EC2 (AWS)

I describe how I migrated my WordPress sites onto an Amazon EC2 instance. I discuss the problems that arose during migration and how I fixed them.

How to Set-Up SFTP on Amazon EC2 (AWS)

This article describes how I set up a separate SFTP account on my Amazon EC2 server. We also describe how to use those SSH keys with WordPress.

How to Prevent Gutenberg Autop from Messing Up Your Code, Shortcodes, and Scripts

One of the biggest problems with Gutenberg autop for me is that it messes up my code, WordPress shortcodes, and scripts. Most of my articles were written before Gutenberg, and if I edit any of them using Gutenberg, my code blocks get all their formatting totally messed up. This article describes a way to remove code, WordPress shortcodes, and scripts from being operated on by Gutenberg autop.

How to Create a WordPress Website on Amazon EC2 (AWS)

After a long-hiatus, I once again caught the web-bug and decided to get back to experimenting with my websites. My first project was to migrate my sites from Media Temple over to Amazon AWS. The key reasons for this - Much much better price point. I would be paying about a third or less of what I am paying now. Superb flexibility and stability. I can easily experiment, create mirror sites, and [...]

How to Create a WordPress Website on Amazon EC2 (AWS)
- Erik
  - Great article. All worked great except for this step:apt install php-mysqlChanging to this fixed ...
Add Custom Taxonomy Tags to Your WordPress Permalinks
- Anthony
  - Where does this code go? Like, what exact .php file please?
How to Harness the Power of WordPress Gutenberg Blocks and Combine It with Legacy Free-Form Text
- tom
  - hi,my experience was like the same, but for me as theme developer the "lazy blocks"(https://wordpress.org/plugins/lazy-blocks/) ...
WordPress Custom Taxonomy Input Panels
- Phil T
  - This is unnecessarily confusing. Why declare a variable with the same name as your taxonomy? Why did ...
Create Pop-up Windows in Your WordPress Blog with Thickbox
- Jim Camomile
  - I have used this tutorial several times and it is one of the few simple and effective ways to add popups ...
How to Add Admin Columns in WordPress
- Andy Globe
  - Hi Friends, I am facing two problem in WordPress admin1. Load custom CSS for wp-admin on user-role ...
Optimize Your WordPress Plugins with Tags
- DF
  - thanks, i went the other way and added a filter if pages I wanted.

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