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How to Add a New WordPress Image Size

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To reduce page load speed, we want to render our blog pages with accurately sized images. WordPress only provides three standard sizes – large, medium, thumbnail. We consider how to add a new “image size” into our WordPress blog.

Shiba Media Library 3.3

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The main addition to this update is the ability to order images within gallery objects. Shiba Media Library was tested on WordPress 3.2. [Full description of the Shiba Media Library] Order Images Within Gallery Objects We may now easily reorder images within a Gallery object. Simply drag the image that you want to reorder and […]

How to Get the WordPress Screen ID of a Page

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There are a variety of administrative WordPress hooks that are applied on a page by page basis. Some good examples can be found in the WP_List_Table object. Example hooks based on screen ID manage_{$screen->id}_columns – Add or delete columns from various administrative pages. views_{$screen->id} – Display the number of objects belonging to each status type. […]

Switch_Theme vs. Theme Switching

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Theme Switching is the process of providing the ability for the user to change the presentation styles or “look” of your site with the use of a Theme Switcher. The process of changing your WordPress Theme by the site Administrator is not called theme switching. ~~[ WordPress Codex ] If we wanted to switch themes […]

Shiba Widgets 1.5

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The Shiba Widgets plugin allows you to assign different widgets to different posts, pages, categories, or tags. Shiba Widgets 1.5 will only work on WordPress 3.0 and above. [Full Shiba Widgets description.] Shiba Widgets 1.5 is a big update with many new features. Make sure to test the plugin rigorously on a test site first […]

Shiba Widgets 1.4

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The Shiba Widgets plugin allows you to assign different widgets to different posts, pages, categories, or tags. Shiba Widgets 1.4 contains updates for WordPress 3.1. It was tested on WordPress 3.0 and 3.1. Shiba Widgets 1.4 will only work on WordPress 3.0 and above. [Full Shiba Widgets description.] New features for Shiba Widgets 1.4 – […]

Shiba Plugins and WordPress 3.1

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Update Feb. 24th – WordPress 3.1 has been released so I am retesting all the Shiba plugins. You may download latest versions of the plugins by going to my WordPress Plugins page. Update – WordPress 3.1, RC3 broke a bunch of the updates. I will wait until 3.1 gets released before making further plugin changes. […]

Shiba Gallery 3.5

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The Shiba Gallery Plugin allows you to display your WordPress galleries using a variety of Javascript libraries including Noobslide, TinySlideshow, SlimBox, Lytebox, Popeye, Picture Slides, and the WordPress native gallery. You can display as many galleries as you want, and have different types of galleries within the same blog page. Here is a detailed description […]