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How to build a Custom WordPress Site 3

May 17th , 2012 → 11:14 am @

Customizing WordPress Child Theme In this tutorial we will create Custom Post Types and add variables and functionality to them. Also we will add some styling for more user-friendly display in the dashboard. Having set up our basic Child Theme structure we will now proceed with the customization. But before that we will do some basic WP configuration and go through the settings. You may be used to building WordPress based sites and therefore you may have some habits in as much as settings and configuration are concerned. Some basic WP Settings Here is what I do in the dashboard: 1. Trash and permanently delete the Hello World Post. 2. Delete the default Links. 3. Set Permalinks to: /%category%/%postname%/ 4. Under Settings General enter Blog Name and Tagline; for the purpose of this exercise I use  as a Title: WordPress TTP and as a Tagline: Tips, Themes and Plugins 5. Add some content to test content display by importing an RSS feed using a plugin such as Feedwordpress. I pulled into a new category called Blog the feed from my author-blog at: http://yorgonestoridis.com/feed Custom Posts and Child Theme We have set up a basic child theme for the purpose of [...]
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How to build a Custom WordPress Site 2

May 14th , 2012 → 12:25 pm @

Build a Custom WP with Semiomantics XO This post focuses on setting up our Main Theme and a Child Theme. For the purpose of this exercise we will use Semiomantics XO as the parent theme because it’s flexible, user-friendly and highly optimized. In fact you can use most any decent WP theme to follow this tutorial, namely the TwentyEleven which comes with the WP installation. Adding a Theme Like on any live site, our test site on BitNami allows us to add themes either from the Dashboard (upload the theme’s zip file) or by pasting the theme into the themes folder in wp-contents. Access your BitNami environment using Windows Explorer and surf to the themes folder. You will see the same folders and files structure under htdocs as you are used to when accessing your WordPress folder on a server using an FTP client. In order to add Themes, we just drop theme folders into the ‘themes’ folder as per above. As you can see, I have amongst others) added my Semiomantics XO (the ‘xo’ folder under themes). XO will serve as the parent theme of the new website. Instead however of customizing XO directly, I will create a child [...]
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How to build a custom WordPress Site

May 14th , 2012 → 10:25 am @

Custom WordPress Design and Developments This post will start a series of articles about building custom Websites based on WordPress and the Semiomantics XO Theme. We will therefore use most of our remaining daily Ycademy calls this month to go into advanced customization issues. But first we will start at the beginning by planning and formulating a project which will allow us to test code, functions and design. The WordPress Custom Project For the purpose of this exercise, we will build plan and execute a hypothetical customer’s project. The new website will be about WordPress, namely about WordPress Tips, Themes and Plugins. It’s a site for a WordPress developer and web designer. The Architecture of the site The structure of the Website will be based on WordPress and include some static pages such as the About, Contact, Imprint and Privacy pages as well as structured dynamic content.  As the site will focus on 3 main topics, Tips, Themes and Plugins, we will build for each of these topics custom Posts and Taxonomies. The Developer’s environment To build the new website in a test environment, we install BitNami and namely the WordPress stack (free download). BitNami creates an independent (Apache) server [...]
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How to Preview your Mobile WordPress for iPhone and iPad

May 3rd , 2012 → 12:57 pm @

iPhone Simulator or Emulator for WordPress? Subsequent to last week’s Ycademy Seminar, I read on Bianca Gubalke’s blog a post about the difficulty to create a WordPress Mobile version without having recourse to a preview tool. As I agree with this statement, I will show you here below a simple method to preview your WordPress Mobile version for iPhone, iPod and iPad. iPhone Simulator The first question is: Do we need an iPhone Simulator at all? I have not seen a single free online iPhone Simulator which would render the mobile version of our WordPress sites. Online Simulators are therefore useless for our purpose. iPhone Emulator Free online Emulators I have come across do not generate a preview of the mobile WordPress version. There are some paid solutions which are however pretty cool and accurate, namely the MobiOne emulator included in the Studio version. There is a 14 day free trial, thereafter a $99 fee. Surprisingly the emulator included with TheAppBuilder does not render the mobile version — this would be a real plus since it’s a free tool until you want to publish your app to a store. There is a much easier to use solution out there which [...]
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Give WordPress an App Look

May 2nd , 2012 → 8:25 pm @

App Look for WordPress Screenshots — under development   Related posts: YORGOO Press Aggregators for WordPress Semiomantics XO Transparent WordPress Drafts Showcase Portfolio Photo Theme for WordPress Cap Sounio — Sea Urchins Transparent WordPress Semiomantics XO
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Mobile Developments for Small and Home Business

May 2nd , 2012 → 7:20 pm @

Mobile Developments for Small and Home Business The rapid expansion of the Mobile Web and the success of smartphones and tablets open new opportunities and imperatives for Website Developments. In as much as Semiomantics is concerned, the focus is set on two main issues: Conversion and integration of web content into an App Publishing on Multiple Platforms Optimization Conversion and integration of web content into an App Whether it is a simple blog or a shop, a photo site or a video library, a directory or any other content, your website can be converted and integrated into a mobile App. Production cost will vary in function of the complexity of the development. I mention cost at this point because for the time being, App developments are still relatively expensive, but that’s the price to pay for a seat in the front row. The mobile web and mobile devices and platforms offer today many features designed to enhance conversation, feedback and interaction which are much more dynamic, flexible and user-friendly than those offered on traditional websites. Also, an App is much easier to use on a smartphone than surfing a website. Bookmarking a website and then accessing (loading) it at a [...]
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Mobile Developments for Small and Home Business

May 2nd , 2012 → 7:20 pm @

Mobile Developments for Small and Home Business The rapid expansion of the Mobile Web and the success of smartphones and tablets open new opportunities and imperatives for Website Developments. In as much as Semiomantics is concerned, the focus is set on two main issues: Conversion and integration of web content into an App Publishing on Multiple Platforms Optimization Conversion and integration of web content into an App Whether it is a simple blog or a shop, a photo site or a video library, a directory or any other content, your website can be converted and integrated into a mobile App. Production cost will vary in function of the complexity of the development. I mention cost at this point because for the time being, App developments are still relatively expensive, but that’s the price to pay for a seat in the front row. The mobile web and mobile devices and platforms offer today many features designed to enhance conversation, feedback and interaction which are much more dynamic, flexible and user-friendly than those offered on traditional websites. Also, an App is much easier to use on a smartphone than surfing a website. Bookmarking a website and then accessing (loading) it at a [...]
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Customizing CSS in WP Mobile Theme

May 1st , 2012 → 6:36 pm @

Common Changes This post lists some CSS snippets to customize WPTouch Pro. Remove the Page Title Area Note: When removing the page title area we recommend using a child theme’s stylesheet and applying the code below to its corresponding stylesheet, per the instructions on applying custom CSS. In the iPhone theme: In the iPad theme: Remove reflection on calendar icons and post-thumbnails Change the size of the Post Thumbnails     Change every instance of 46px to your desired size Remove rounded corners on Post Thumbnails Remove “Comments are closed” text when comments are disabled in WordPress p.nocomments, #respond { display:none !important; } Remove comments completely Remove comment # bubble Remove ‘breadcumb’ text in category and search pages Use custom color for the mobile header where #ffffff can be customized to suit. Remove “HelloBar” Related posts: XO Mobile Theme with WPTouch Pro Customizing WP Shop Theme Customizing Post Editing Best WP Business Theme Hosting South Africa Fun Theme
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Eval base64 Hack Solutions

April 26th , 2012 → 7:06 pm @

eval base64 on WordPress or other Sites WordPress and other CMS powered sites are often targets for hackers who mass-inject some code into php and or html files. What to look for The cases I came across so far showed a hack just before the closing body tag in form of a short script pointing to an external source. Also, in some cases I found some php file in the uploads folder (in WP the uploads folder should not contain any php files). Once the script executed, a long string starting something like this: is placed on php and/or htm/html files. This eval base64 encoded and injected PHP code will hit all php archives. How to get rid of the hack without destroying your site To start with: change your passwords (FTP and Admin). Make sure your site script WP and Plugins are updated. Check your footer.php (theme folder) and delete eventually the script added by the hack (or just load your backed up footer.php and replace the file). Check your uploads folder for php files and delete them. Check your plugins folder for unusual php files and as the case may be delete them. If you are not familiar [...]
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Ycademy Online Seminar Apri 2012

April 16th , 2012 → 7:13 pm @

Mobile WordPress and Social Media The fast evolution of the mobile web has created new needs for publishers, whereas the objective remains to integrate mobile web targets into an existing workflow and to optimize productivity with the help of automated conversion scripts and tools. What’s New on Mobile WordPress and Social Media At Semiomantics the starting point for our development is the most comprehensive conversion plugin, called WPTouch Pro. WPTouch has released its latest version end of March 2012 with some adjustments for iOS 5.1 and many other fixes and developments: * Added: Custom advertising options for iPad * Added: Simple caching of desktop functions.php * Added: Russian language file * Added: Automatic archiving of previous settings in wptouch-data directory * Added: Compatibility setting for BuddyPress Mobile AJAX support * Fixed: Changing user-agent matching that may have interfered with advertising in certain scenarios * Changed: Replaced include with locate_template in theme files, should allow child overrides of custom WPtouch Pro template files * Changed: Algorithm to reload settings; may have caused settings to be lost in a certain scenario * Updated: All translations based on 2.6 strings * Fixed: An issue with Register and Lost password links in Classic * [...]
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