How to Create Replacement Page Titles in WordPress

I’ve been too busy to spot this getting published at the time, but I’ve just noticed that I had my screencast tutorial published a couple of weeks ago at styl.eti.me, showing how to replace your Page titles in WordPress with custom values, different to those shown in your site’s navigation. Thanks to Roger for hosting it!

Go check it out, and let me know what you think of it!

One Year Later… A New Design is Born

Well, almost. It’s pretty much a year since I scrapped my old ExpressionEngine site and put together a portfolio and blog in WordPress. Mine was the first WordPress site that I built, and, while the sticky tape’s held it all together pretty nicely, there’s so much that could be improved.
That’s why it’s been quiet here [...]

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WordPress Pods: Properly formatted output from ‘desc’ fields

A few months ago, I discovered the Pods plugin for WordPress, and it’s completely changed the way I go about building many projects. It essentially adds CMS functionality to WordPress, allowing you to create your own input modules and display them however you want. The Pods website homepage has a video that explains the plugin [...]

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Multiple Search Results Pages within One WordPress Site

On a client site I’m currently developing in WordPress, I’m having to add the client’s existing articles to the new site, as well as his old blog. I wanted them to both exist as Posts, but to be separated within the site. Most of that was straightforward – by assigning articles and blog posts to [...]

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How about a Nice Hot Cuppa?

Recently, I’ve been thinking that a change in branding would do my own freelance business some good — that having a ’studio’ name, rather than using my own, would help in gaining new custom. To that end, I’m happy to announce that Nice Hot Cuppa is now online.

OK, it’s just a holding page for the [...]

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Rob Barrett Introduction