Ninja Notes

Setting your embedded YouTube Video to autoplay is pretty simple. All you have to do is add the following to the end of your YouTube video url: &autoplay=1 If you want your embedded YouTube Video to loop, you would add the following to the end of your YouTube video url: &loop=1 You can combine the [...]

Limiting Characters on Category Blog Pages You can customize the number of characters (letters, punctuation, spaces) on a category blog page in a Genesis Theme through the Genesis Theme Settings. There is a section titled: "Content Archives," with a text dialog box that allows you to choose a number of characters shown.   Changing the [...]

Seek the following code: // Force layout on homepage add_filter('genesis_pre_get_option_site_layout', 'streamline_home_layout'); function streamline_home_layout($opt) { if ( is_home() ) $opt = 'content-sidebar'; return $opt; } …and replace it with the layout you want to use: // Force layout on homepage add_filter('genesis_pre_get_option_site_layout', 'streamline_home_layout'); function streamline_home_layout($opt) { if ( is_home() ) $opt = 'full-width-content'; return $opt; }

We recently had an issue with the PetPalSpot.com website following the checklist run-through, where the images for page and post content would not show. Upon further investigation we determined that the WP-Media Library was looking in the wrong directory for the image files, as WPMu has a different directory setup. The solution for the missing [...]

Font uploaders allow us to break out of the web dependence on the user's system fonts.  Generally these tools allow you to upload any OTF or TTF font.  Here are some I'm testing: AnyFont: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/anyfont/ – I'm testing this on the Ninja Notes wiki. Font Uploader:  http://codecanyon.net/item/font-uploader/110175 – This is a commercial plugin from Code Canyon ($10 for [...]

There are two major weaknesses in  text widgets: the ability to empower them with PHP code, or with shortcodes.  Normally, you get the functionality you want by either finding a specialized widget, or hard-coding PHP code into the template . . . something that's not possible if you want something in a sidebar, for example. [...]

With a load of plugins, we're often finding we get a memory limit error when we try to install a new plugin or site upgrade.  The memory failure generally applies to the installation or upgrade process itself, not to the actual normal process. The error looks something like this: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of [...]

WP Plugins, which is an offshoot of the massive WordPress MU developer/host Edublogs, offers an outlet store for premium WordPress plugin developers.  Their pricing model is a flat-rate price, good for a week to download the plugin, and then a monthly "subscription" fee (default is $3) for continuing updates and support.  That monthly fee is [...]

I've narrowed this down to three ecommerce frameworks, ranging in price from $99 to $32.  The advantage of WordPress themes is that we're already familiar with customizing and use of the platform, as opposed to the stand-alones. Shopper Press – The top one appears to be the Shopper Press theme, which has the most payment [...]