One of my favorite free contact form plugins for WordPress is Contact Form 7. It’s easy to use but also has a lot of features, it can handle file uploads, and you can create multiple forms, if you need more than one on your website.
On many themes, however, the checkboxes and radio buttons don’t line up properly when there are a lot of choices and are displayed horizontally rather than vertically.
Previously I wrote about how you can increase the writing space in WordPress, which makes it easier to write your blog posts.
One of the cool new features in WordPress 3.2+ is a fullscreen writing area.
This gives more space for writing and is also considered a distraction free writing area as all you have on the screen is the section where you write the post and a minimal toolbar.
WordPress 3.2 was released on July 4th and the .1 update was released about a week later.
WordPress 3.2 has some great new features, which you have you can read about here and here.
One thing I did want to highlight were the new system requirements. I’ve run into this issue a couple of times now in updating sites so I thought it was worth mentioning again.
The WordPress Admin bar was introduced in version 3.1. If you are anything like me, you don’t care for it. I’ve become used to seeing it but I never use it. Although, admittedly I do get stuck in my computer ways – for example, I only just stopped using Windows XP a month ago ;-)
There have been a variety of code and plugin solutions for removing it. This week, however, I accidentally discovered a very simple way to remove it.
Since version 2.9 WordPress has supported Post Thumbnails, which are used to assign an image to a post so they can be used in different parts of the theme and are frequently used in magazine style layouts. Prior to post thumbnails, custom fields were frequently used to do this.
I used to use the Thumbnails for Excerpts plugin to improve the layout of my search results page and my archives. For some time I’ve wanted to use Post Thumnails instead but the thought of adding them to all of my older posts seemed like a daunting task.
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