I found the plugin I needed to set a default featured image. I’m finding out just how robust the WordPress ecosystem has become over the years. I haven’t really even looked at it in ages. Maybe one of these days I’ll find something I need that there isn’t a plugin for and be motivated to […]

Since my posts don’t have a “featured image” when they get auto-shared to Facebook there is no image next to the link. This is a bit annoying. I assume there is some simple solution but the two plugins I tried didn’t seem to have any settings for a default. They just used the featured image […]

I’m not doing my web hosting with the Site5 company but I did get some themes from them. They are all pretty decent looking themes that work well, a big improvement over most of the free theme sites out there. Check it out: http://www.s5themes.com/themes/

I did end up digging into the code of Diamond Multisite Widgets (see previous post) a little bit. In the end it looks like it will be best for me to just use the Duplicate Widget Plugin since it does everything I personally need. In the past (I think pre-2.8) WordPress only allowed a widget to […]

Since I’ve setup a blog network with multiple blogs I thought it would be nice to display a list of all the sites in a sidebar on all the sites. It turns out there is a great plugin for this called Diamond Multisite Widgets. It not only has a widget to list all the blogs […]

I recently purchased some shared hosting with NameCheap.com and I wanted to get a multi-subdomain WordPress (3.8.1) site up and running. My first two challenges had to do with getting DNS management and emailing working the way I wanted it to. DNS I have been using NameCheap for a few years now to manage my […]