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WordPress Front Page Posts Page id

Posted by admin in WordPress on April 13, 2009

Recently I have configured the ‘Front page displays’ settings under Settings->Reading of my WordPress Admin, I have chosen a static page for my front page, and another page for my posts page. After doing so, everything works like a charm except one thing, My Posts page can’t have the page id retrieved.

After doing some research on the web, I found the answer to my question. To get the id of the Posts Page, I need to use the following line in my theme index.php file:

$frontpage_id = get_option('page_for_posts');

Hope this helps! :-)

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WordPress Disable Auto Save

Posted by admin in WordPress on April 12, 2009

WordPress Auto-Save is a really nice to have feature if you are writing for CNN or BBC. As a regular blogger, this feature could double or even triple your database usage and overall memory usage! For a long time, the admin section of my this was really slow, it took me and the my host – Dreamhost some time to figure out the cause. It turned out that although WordPress has impressive user-friendliness, but it’s memory issue is a headache for bloggers blog on shared host.

Do disable the Auto-Save, you could open and insert the following line somewhere in the page wp-config.php:

define('WP_POST_REVISIONS',false);

There are plugins that you can use to switch off Auto-Save, but I don’t recommend using it, because it is such a simple task to do, by using a plugin for this task is really an ovekill.

Hope this helps! ;)

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WordPress Gallery Plugin

Posted by admin in WordPress on March 14, 2009

The best WordPress Image Lightbox Gallery Plugin is Lightbox 2, it’s easy to batch upload and post gallery as a Lightbox gallery. It’s deadly easy to use, especially for those who need multiple upload and one click display.

I have tried many image plugins in the WordPress plugin directory. Many have many features but add extra steps to the posting process. There are two Lightbox 2 plugins in the plugin directories. So not to be confused, the one I am referring to is http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lightbox-2/

After doing upload, just insert image or gallery to your post or pages, and the plugin will do its magic to turn it into a lightbox!

Hope this helps! ;)

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