I'd like a place to put up a CV and occasionally some writing. I'm looking for a minimal, clean, and if possible free Wordpress theme. In terms of references, I really like the look of Grantland articles (
for example, the first thing I clicked on their frontpage). I love the running header, the minimal navigation, the centered space for an article, the white space, the blocking, and the running foot-notes on the side.
posted by codacorolla
on May 16, 2013 -
7 answers
I would like to purchase a tablet so I can do more blogging without lugging a laptop around. What are the best tools/apps/workflow tips to be able to do this without tearing my hair out? Special snowflake stuff inside.
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posted by melissa
on May 13, 2013 -
6 answers
I am working in Wordpress with the Whitelight theme. I'm pretty new but know enough to be dangerous :)
I have set up my attribute terms and added it to the variable product's page. Since they are scents, I would like to have the description (that I wrote when creating the term) appear on the product page. How this possible? Thanks! Happy Day!
posted by Snackpants
on May 8, 2013 -
5 answers
I've got multiple domains, all running Wordpress, and am down-sizing to just one. Looking for the easiest way to get the content from the other domains moved/imported to the keeper domain, each in their own category.
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posted by jbickers
on May 3, 2013 -
2 answers
The other day I discovered that some JPEGs I'd posted to my (self-hosted) WordPress blog had been compressed. The subject of my blog happens to be anaglyph 3D photos... and if the images are not saved at a very high resolution, a phenomenon called "ghosting" or "crosstalk" appears, where parts of the image that are only supposed to be visible to one eye are visible to the other eye as well. This can ruin the 3D effect. So it's important that my images are uploaded and posted with no added compression. The problem is that I don't know exactly where the problem occurred. Details below...
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posted by Artifice_Eternity
on Apr 16, 2013 -
20 answers
Can you recommend a clean, minimalist Wordpress theme that can display art as well as writing? Bonus for free.
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posted by airguitar2
on Apr 11, 2013 -
6 answers
I have a wordpress blog. Comment sections is being filled daily with spam comments. Is there any way I can block these?
posted by goalyeehah
on Apr 4, 2013 -
9 answers
My wife has been forced to update and maintain her company blog. She is trying to create posts using the default online editor. I am watching her breakdown on a weekly basis while dealing with this. She hits backspace on a paragraph and the paragraph jumps to inside the caption box of the previous image. She creates a post, hits preview and nothing is even similar to what she was trying to create; text that was wrapping around an image is suddenly all messed up, weird breaks appear in paragraphs, Large blank spaces appear on the page. She has no experience with coding so getting her to actually code the post is tough.
Is there an easy solution? I want to help her make her life easier.
posted by aburd
on Mar 30, 2013 -
14 answers
As my friends and colleagues continue to move and diversify, I'd like to make a small, private site where we can share three- to five-song "mix tapes" of what we really love these days; ideally super easy from an interface perspective to create these mix tapes. What's my shortest path to goal?
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posted by Shepherd
on Mar 28, 2013 -
9 answers
Is there a word for these types of web-based tools, and a widely-used way to make them? One: a way make a web-based reference guide / glossary / help centre. Two: a tool that will generate a custom 20-page PDF based on complex user inputs, complete with table of contents. Are there open-source, well-supported solutions for building these things? Maybe a way to combine some plugins for Drupal or Wordpress? I really have no idea how to tackle this.
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posted by 100kb
on Mar 25, 2013 -
8 answers
I'm scheduled for a technical interview after the weekend for a front-end development position. I'd like to spend some intensive time beforehand reading relevant blogs and books to prime the ol' noodle and supplement my existing knowledge. Could you recommend some resources? Are there questions you would ask an applicant in this situation, or that you have been asked?
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posted by jsturgill
on Mar 22, 2013 -
10 answers
So. If you had a wordpress self-hosted website accessed through your name and an ok password and a gmail account associated with the wordpress admin login, what would you do to secure everything from fuckery?
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posted by Kerasia
on Mar 21, 2013 -
16 answers
I'm trying to hire a full time coder for my business. I build, maintain, and remodel my own portfolio of websites (PHP, JS, WP, HTML, CSS, MySQL, etc). Once I have a few candidates I would like to assign them all the same small (paid) project so that I may assess their abilities. What should the test include? All candidates will be US-Based. $6000/mo budget cap.
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posted by Th!nk
on Mar 20, 2013 -
5 answers
I need to be able to sync at least two calendars between iOS and Android, and I don't want to use Google Calendar anymore. What should I use?
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posted by stoneweaver
on Mar 16, 2013 -
5 answers
I want a distributed Facebook. What necessary pieces are already available, and what work would need to be done to integrate currently available necessary pieces?
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posted by eviemath
on Mar 10, 2013 -
8 answers
II am trying to get a handle on web content and which content has, overall, the best stickiness. Sites like YouTube, Tumblr, Flickr are, as near as I can tell, mostly visual. Blog and microblogging sites like Wordpress and Twitter are word based. Quora, Reddit and Metafilter are information sharing communities. Podcasts and music sites like MySpace or Soundcloud are, for the most part, sound focused. And then you have sites like Facebook and Google+ that are trying to combine the best of all of them.
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posted by CollectiveMind
on Mar 10, 2013 -
5 answers
One of our clients has a WordPress site running on our IIS Windows server. They want to be able to preview and edit the site before it goes live. How can this be accomplished?
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posted by cirrostratus
on Feb 27, 2013 -
9 answers
What are the best online resources to guide me in developing a website using WordPress?
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posted by braemar
on Feb 21, 2013 -
8 answers
Wordpress question: Is it possible to generate a report on which users are the most active on the site in terms of interactions, click-throughs, and time logged-in? I see a few plugins which claim to do this, but it seems like something you'd have had to have installed since the time you wanted to start keeping track. Is there something I can use which will find this information automatically?
posted by codacorolla
on Feb 18, 2013 -
6 answers
Is there a quick (or a quicker) way to download all files of a given type from the Media Library of a self-hosted WordPress site? The site in question has about 200 MP3s. I can easily sort out the MP3s by selecting "Audio." But how can I download them all at once? Is there a plug-in? FTP looks like a big pain, too, as these files are organized in folders by year and month, and there are several years here -- and many months with no uploads at all.
posted by houseofdanie
on Feb 9, 2013 -
9 answers
I have been combing the social networks I use trying to find a way to link two of them. It's not a big list; Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Soundcloud, and Wordpress. I know about IFTTT and Hootsuite, but I'd prefer to not use third party apps if possible. Facebook and Twitter of course, connect to almost everything. But I'm also trying to figure out how stuff I upload to Soundcloud can be posted on LinkedIn. And likewise, I can't get LinkedIn posts to show up my Facebook business page. Is it just not possible w/o 3rd party apps that will make posts I don't need? If there is a way, can somebody tell me?
posted by CollectiveMind
on Feb 8, 2013 -
3 answers
Tell me what you know about building a Wordpress-based site in English, but with Chinese-language content. Or any other language, really, if it applies to this situation.
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posted by cilantro
on Feb 5, 2013 -
3 answers
I want to get an affiliate site running without spending a huge amount of time or money on it. What I want is a pretty standard shopfront with a grid of icons, and some text explaining why I think you should buy these items, running on my own domain. All the actual sales will be done on the affiliate end, so a shopping cart is not required.
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posted by StephenF
on Feb 5, 2013 -
6 answers
Not sure I want to use Twitter bootstrap for the mobile versions of my Wordpress site. What alternatives do I have?
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posted by radiocontrolled
on Feb 4, 2013 -
2 answers
Should I try to move my custom-domain blog from Blogger to WordPress using the WordPress "import blog" feature, or is it worth hiring a professional to be sure I don't mess it up? Also, WordPress template questions.
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posted by The Girl Who Ate Boston
on Feb 4, 2013 -
5 answers
I've recently created a small hobby site using wordpress and currently hosted on wordpress.com. It is a niche site and I will have a number of product recommendations that I feel would be valuable to monetize. I'd like to add affiliate links (specifically Amazon.com) or possibly use adsense but that's a no no on wordpress.com. Can anyone help me through the myriad of options for hosting by providing some recommendations?
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posted by Octoparrot
on Jan 31, 2013 -
19 answers
I have a Buddypress site set up with all of my contributors set up as Authors. This has worked well, up until this point, where the users want to make groups. However, the Author role doesn't have permission to create groups. I've used several role modifying plugins to try to switch it on, but none of the plugins have this option available. The current plugin I'm using for role moderation (called 'Members') has an option to add in new Wordpress actions to allow/disallow, but I'm not sure what this would be called. Further data about installed plugins, versions, etc. available upon request. For the moment let's say that simply changing all user's roles to something else isn't an option.
posted by codacorolla
on Jan 28, 2013 -
4 answers
I've just started up a new Wordpress blog, which is all well and good. I've also got a lot of content on Youtube in a channel, quite a bit of videos, as in 200+. Most of that content is not going to be embedded in the blog, but it's useful content that I'd like to be able to index and show to a browser.
When I googled this topic, I found a WP plug-in that seemed to do precisely that, generated an XML sitemap of a Youtube channel and a URL on your blog that you could browse and see the content as thumbnails and synopsis. The plug-in unfortunately is no longer available and the developer is not interested in supporting it.
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posted by diode
on Jan 25, 2013 -
2 answers
I'm considering writing a technical book, mostly a labour of love. I want to do the writing process online, like Bruce Eckel did for his excellent
Thinking in Java years ago. In order to facilitate user feedback, Eckel had a very fine-grained commenting system, which he developed himself and called TalkBack. At the end of each paragraph there was a "comment" link that let users comment on that particular paragraph. Are there any other CMS that offers fine-grained feedback like that? I'm aware of an older (2003-2004?) Zope TalkBack implementation, but would like something more current. And if you think I'm looking for the wrong thing and should go about writing a book on the web differently, please chime in!
posted by Harald74
on Jan 22, 2013 -
8 answers
I'm organizing a conference which has a Wordpress website. Can anyone recommend a plugin that facilitates easy setup of pages/posts with speaker bios, session descriptions, locations and times, and an attractive auto-generated conference schedule page with links to the bios and session blurbs?
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posted by beagle
on Jan 18, 2013 -
2 answers
I'm interested in using a Ruby CMS as a substitute for the usual Wordpress or Drupal. Although I know my way around Rails, I am not sure whether there might be a good off-the-shelf way to make the control panel as easy to use for regular folks who are not programmers.
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posted by steinsaltz
on Jan 18, 2013 -
3 answers
I've not used WordPress for quite some time and the recent release of 3.5 with its new ways of handling media has me somewhat confuddled.
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posted by humph
on Jan 5, 2013 -
8 answers
Am creating a wordpress-powered site on my .com domain. It's far from being finished and looks pretty crappy right now. How can I make a "site coming soon" splash page without uninstalling wordpress from my page and starting all over again?
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posted by Miss T.Horn
on Dec 25, 2012 -
5 answers
Please help me to choose a WordPress theme for my (second) daily photo blog. My problem is that I want something so plain and simple that I'll probably have to pay for it, but the paid themes are complex and difficult for me to decipher. The content will be 365 posts and an archive gallery, presented as simply as possible.
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posted by cribcage
on Dec 22, 2012 -
5 answers
Wordpress question: How difficult is it to learn wordpress for someone with no experience or knowledge of it? Assume that the student is around 18 years old and has basic computer literacy but has never heard of wordpress before. Thanks for your help!
posted by tessalations999
on Dec 18, 2012 -
8 answers
WordpressFilter: Domain A is pointed at Domain B, specifically at Subdomain http://example.domainB.com. How do I make it appear as if the site on Domain B is actually being hosted at domain A, URL-wise?
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posted by seesaw
on Dec 1, 2012 -
6 answers
I have a live Wordpress blog. I want to backup and restore it to another directory so I can test and try things before doing this on the live site. What's the best way to go about this?
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posted by diode
on Nov 30, 2012 -
3 answers
WordPressFilter: I'm looking for a plugin/widget/codesnippet that will allow me to create a graph using input from the user.
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posted by antonymous
on Nov 27, 2012 -
5 answers
Are there any hosted publishing platforms where a) I can do some wysiwyg fiddling with the design
and b) post content that descends into Dan Savage fetish-too-far territory? Do I have to self-host?
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posted by zeek321
on Nov 25, 2012 -
4 answers
I need a way for Wordpress (or a plugin) to automatically detect and display the length of a podcast/MP3.
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posted by brownrd
on Nov 17, 2012 -
11 answers
WordPress MU-filter: My site is xyz.com. I'm trying to setup subdomains (abc.xyz.com) that will mirror / copy *selected* pages from the main site, but not all. What plugin / technique works best? More after the jump.
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posted by chrisinseoul
on Nov 11, 2012 -
4 answers
I need a WordPress guru to help me figure out what happened to my friend's site. When I launched it months ago, it was working fine. Tonight, it is not. And nobody has made any changes.
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posted by starvingartist
on Nov 11, 2012 -
11 answers
I'm building a Javascript application that will do cool things with JSON data dumped from a client's Wordpress. It's working great except for parts that are in this PHP-style serialized data that I can't figure out how to deal with in Javascript. Can someone recommend a good method for this?
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posted by steinsaltz
on Nov 5, 2012 -
9 answers
What is the best free WordPress plugin for subscribers to get an email update about a new post on my girlfriend's blog? (Hopefully using HTML and images, not boring plain text updates).
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posted by MT
on Nov 4, 2012 -
8 answers
I just moved from Movable Type to a category-based Wordpress site and am now having redirect issues. Help me push my users to the right place!
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posted by radiocontrolled
on Oct 30, 2012 -
2 answers
The blog title is doubled
in the RSS Feed How do I get rid of the duplicate ?
The blog is going to be a photo only blog, no titles - Is that a contributing factor ?
Is it a bad WP install to blame ?
The WP title ?
Where/how can I edit the blog title in the RSS feed ?
This thing is driving me nuts !
posted by Webbster
on Oct 28, 2012 -
4 answers
WordPressFilter: My WordPress blog uses Atahualpa. I have "posts" which I would like to appear in the menu bar where "pages" appear. Is there a "right way" to do this?
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posted by QuantumMeruit
on Oct 23, 2012 -
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