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WordPress, showing a post thumbnail (Featured Image), or picking up the first picture in the body of the post

WordPress, showing a post thumbnail (Featured Image), or picking up the first picture in the body of the post, Timthumb folder

How to retrieve the post’s thumbnail, no matter what. If a Featured Image has been set, that will be used. If not, the first picture inserted in the body of the post will be used instead. If still any picture isn’t available, we have two options: show a default picture, or entirely skip the code for the post’s thumbnail. With [...more]

301 Redirection in WordPress, wp_redirect Explained

301 Redirection Made Even Simpler, wp_redirect Explained

What is the difference between a 301 and a 302 redirection? In this article I explain how to implement such a thing in the Dashboard. With few SEO tips. Never let your visitors clueless when they’re looking for a resource that has been moved. I’m going to show few ways to implement the function wp_redirect provided by WordPress, supported by [...more]

301 Redirect Made Simple

301 Redirection Made Simple

How to rescue your lost visitors when a page has been moved to a different location? And how to not loose any SEO value? We’re seeing two simple methods to achieve such a goal, via the .htaccess file, and with a template page plus a minimal PHP coding. But first what’s a 301 redirection? Note, you would like to give [...more]

WordPress, save your client from the danger nested in the Dashboard

Wordpress, saving the user from the danger nasted in the Dashboard

It happened again. The client asked for an admin access and now hours of fine tuning are gone. Even worse, the website is not that good looking as you planned it to be and you don’t really feel like to have it in your precious portfolio. Too bad. Providing an administrator access to the client is a honest practice. Just [...more]