Author Archives: Weston Deboer

About Weston Deboer

I like to use wordpress for any and every website that I work on. No matter how big or how small the website is.

Dynamic Copyright

I hate hate hate sites that don’t update there copyright. I know if you don’t use some sort of template system it can be hard to shift through all of your pages to do this. So make your website with … Continue reading

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Removing Dotted Lines Around Links

This is a css tip that I often overlook. I am not a great css designer, it kind of fell into my lap one day. I got the opportunity to take a job offer from suicide girls. They were looking … Continue reading

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Custom Page Templates Not Showing Up In WordPress

I litterally created a new template for an internal project today and it wasn’t showing up on the template drop down menu. It was freaking me out, I spent a good five minutes trouble shooting it by: Making a new … Continue reading

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Custom Templates

Creating custom templates for pages is what makes wordpress extremely valuable. That is wordpress’s hidden secret that makes it so important for a blogging and CMS platform. I use wordpress custom templates in every wordpress site that I make. To … Continue reading

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A Good Webhost

If you do use wordpress and are hosting websites, It is even better to make sure that your web host is up and running also and will work with what you are doing. I have found that dreamhost is a … Continue reading

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Get the First Image From Post

I had wanted to get the first image from a post since I started using wordpress. Problem was, I wasn’t smart enough to understand how to do it. Or how to even think about the ways to go around doing … Continue reading

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Dyanmic Image Resizing

I use timthumb for dynamic image resizing. It works on most webhosts and requires little to no setting up. All you have to do is upload the file to your website and link to it like so: <img src=”//timthumb.php?src=/images/whatever.jpg&amp;h=150&amp;w=150&amp;zc=1″ alt=”" … Continue reading

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After WordPress Install

The first thing I do after a wordpress install: 1. I change the permalinks structure to “/%category%/%postname%/”. I don’t use category pages, I make pages in place of the categories. I don’t like how it looks when you use normal … Continue reading

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