InfiniteWP – The Voodoo Review

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Rev. Voodoo

It’s been a fun week here at VoodooPress. I’m pretty new to the whole reviewing thing. But I really enjoy learning about anything to do with WordPress, and I love passing the info to all of you. This time I was approached by the Infinite WordPress (InfiniteWP) folks to review their product. This is a new product, and I can definitely see a future here. I can tell you now, I’m keeping it installed, and I’m excited to see where this goes! If you are interested at all in a central way to manage your installs, read on! (Just a note, this is NOT a paid review – these are my honest thoughts after trying InfiniteWP out)

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WP Theme Generator – The Voodoo Review

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Rev. Voodoo

Well, this is a first here on VoodooPress! Now we’ve given some pretty brief reviews of products before, but those were simply things I was using – and felt obliged to mention. I figure if I’m using something and it works, or doesn’t work, it’s my job to let all you WordPress peeps know about it! It’s best for the community when we all share what we learn! This time I was approached by WP Theme Generator and asked if I would check out their product. I thought, why not? It looked like a cool product, so I figured we should all check it out together! Just a note, this isn’t a paid review – I was given access to the product so I could thoroughly test, but was not paid. So these opinions are completely my own! Let’s dive in!

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Customize Your Excerpt Length Per Template

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Rev. Voodoo

I’ve seen a variety of posts from people devising different ways to customize the_excerpt length. In WordPress, most people are familiar with 2 ways to display their content: the_content, and the_excerpt. Both give fairly predictable results as to what you get. the_content gives you all of your content, with formatting intact. the_excerpt gives you your set excerpt, stripping away formatting, links, etc. But you had one excerpt length, and that was it! What if you want various excerpts? Well I’ve seen ways to craft various excerpts by creating different functions that had to be called per template, but as of WP 3.3 that is no more! Check it out!

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Thanks for Using Our Gravity Forms Affiliate Link!

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Rev. Voodoo

I don’t have many affiliate links on here. I put a couple up here and there when discussing certain products that I enjoy. One of them is our Gravity Forms link, which is used when discussing how to do certain things with Gravity Forms. Not gonna lie, I really dig that plugin – I get a lot done with it! I just wanted to take a second to thank the folks who have purchased the plugin through VoodooPress. This month is the first time I’ve made any money off of the links, and I definitely appreciate it!

Thanks for supporting VoodooPress!

WordPress 3.3.2 is Available, Security Update and Bugfixes

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Rev. Voodoo

WordPress 3.3.2 was just released. As this is a security release, and also contains bugfixes, it is very important to get your installs upgraded! Check out the WordPress blog post for full details. Also, Beta 3 of version 3.4 is out for those of you who are testing.

Running Queries From Functions.php – Update, Let’s Keep This Thing in Check!

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Rev. Voodoo

Back in August, I ran a little article about running queries from functions.php. We did a little pre_get_posts work, and a bit of a conditional stuff. Well, I learned a bit more since then, and you need one more essential piece of information! Let me key you in on that!

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WordPress 3.4 Beta 2 Now Available, Are you testing?

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Rev. Voodoo

We’re further into the test cycle now. Hopefully you’re testing to make sure things go smoothly!

Monitor Your Website(s) From Google Docs, and Find Out Some Very Interesting Things!

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Rev. Voodoo

I came across a couple of posts recently which showed me how to monitor my website uptime using Google Docs. They both work great, one is for a single site. That is suffucient for many users, and you can use multiple copies, 1 to monitor each site. The next one is inspired by the first, but allows for multiple sites in a single sheet. These are fantastic tools that set up easily. Check it out:

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I Want True Full Width! A Wide Responsive Theme!

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Rev. Voodoo

So here’s something that I think is totally lacking in WordPress theme that are available. Quality, WIDE themes! Apparently full-width template doesn’t mean to others what it does to me. I’ve been testing a variety of theme on my blog, and I have found a lot of quality stuff to be certain. I plan to keep switching things up now that I’ve made it so easy on myself with my plugin. I literally have every customization I want in there, I just have to install a new theme, figure out what templates do what, make a child theme, and drop in a few custom template tags and I’m good. Less than half an hour of work… BUT, here is what I want!!

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