Category Archives: WordPress

Force web browsers to retrieve the latest version of a page from a WordPress site

I was having a bit of difficulty with a WordPress developed site recently. I had set up a members area which allowed users to retrieve messages and downloads, but users were finding that they would get a cached version of the page and would need to do a force refresh (e.g. Shift+F5 or Ctrl+Shift+R depending [...]

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Updating WordPress blog with Android app

I’ve recently started using the official WordPress for Android app, which is available for free on the Android Market. The app allows users to create new posts, moderate comments and update content all from an Android handset. The app is very good, but before using it I had to make a small change on my [...]

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Prevent comment spam on WordPress image and attachment pages

I’ve noticed recently that I’m getting a large amount of comment spam. This isn’t unusual, but what is strange is that most of it appears on the comments under images and attachments. Whilst this makes it easier to spot spam (because I know that anything left under an image is not going to be a [...]

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My Link Order – reorder links in sidebar

Surprisingly, I found that when adding links to the sidebar, I found that there was nothing built in to WordPress to change the order that they are displayed in. Luckily, a plugin is available that will do just that. It’s called My Link Order and allows you to drag and drop the links into the [...]

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Remove the page title from a specific page using Thematic and WordPress

I’ve setup WordPress so that the front page is a static page rather than a blog. This is straightforward, but I had problems trying to remove the page title, because I didn’t want it to say ‘Home’ on the home page as it looked a bit out of place. I tried searching on Google for [...]

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