WordPress
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WordPress: Find and Replace All Permalinks In Your Database using Regular Expressions (Example: /YYYY/MM/DD)
With any site that spans over a decade, it’s not uncommon that there are many changes made to the permalink structure. In the early days of WordPress, it wasn’t uncommon for the permalink structure for a blog post to be set to a path that included the year, month, day, and the slug of the post: /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ Aside from having…
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How To Syndicate External RSS Feeds In Your WordPress Theme or Child Theme
Some folks don’t realize it, but WordPress has integrated the ability to syndicate RSS feeds with some out-of-the-box features. While there are widgets to do this, you may actually want to include the ability to publish other feeds directly into your WordPress template. WordPress supports both Magpie and SimplePie RSS Caching within its available function, fetch_feed: fetch_feed – retrieve an…
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What Is A Content Delivery Network (CDN)?
Although prices continue to drop on hosting and bandwidth, it can still be pretty expensive to host a website on a premium hosting platform. And if you’re not paying a lot, chances are that your site is pretty slow – losing significant amounts of business. As you think about your servers hosting your site, they have to put up with…
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WordPress: How To Sort Your Custom Post Type Posts Alphabetically
With the new theme (and child theme) I’ve implemented on Martech Zone, I had to rebuild and recode the custom post type I built for Acronyms. I optimized the code to insert some additional custom fields and I’m having to redesign the archive and taxonomy templates to better display the acronyms listed. In my last theme (whose developers discontinued support),…