May is flying by – it really is true that the older you get the faster time goes by. This week I have some information about WordPress, photos, plastic, a lake monster, cleaning and more. Enjoy!
Bookmarks Magazine: An Example of Awesome Customer Service
I love to read and will read anything, if a book that I want to read is available. I would even read a Chilton car manual, which are kind of interesting.
I also have a terrible addiction to magazines but have mostly broken that habit. As the subscriptions expire I will probably only continue to receive The New Yorker (maybe), Bookmarks and maybe Edge. I don’t have time to read them, they aren’t environmentally sound (although I do pass my issues along) and I can get a lot of the same information online.
But, I will not give up my subscription to Bookmarks and I highly recommend it to anyone who loves to read.
This is because it provides outstanding review information and they have awesome customer service.
Random WordPress Quotes Without A Plugin
Last month as part of my (Anti) Social spring cleaning, I added new testimonials and added a big block of them to the sidebar on certain parts of my site.
Ajith noted that they were a duplication of the testimonials on the portfolio page, so I used is_page conditonally so they didn’t show up on the portfolio page.
I was never really happy with the way that they looked, even though I kept playing with the style. I decided what I wanted to do was have random testimonial quotes display in the header the way that my last tweet on twitter shows up in the header on the blog part of my site.
Using Thumbnails for Excerpts Plugin with Query Posts to Make a Custom Sidebar Block in WordPress
Last fall I wrote an article about improving your archives with the Thumbnails for Excerpts plugin. This plugin takes the first screenshot in your article and displays it as thumbnail next to your archives listing. The archives must use the excerpt tag, the_excerpt, in order to display the thumbnail. The plugin also has a number of settings that can be adjusted and a class that can be used in the CSS.
Anyway … now that I’ve added that background information I can move on.
How to Conditionally Display WordPress Sidebar Content with is_page
In a non-widgetized sidebar you may have content that you only want to show on certain pages but not on others. I started thinking about this after my (Anti) Social WordPress Spring Cleaning article where Ajith mentioned that on my portfolio page I was duplicating the testimonials. I had the testimonials listed with each project and in the sidebar.
So, I decided to use conditional code to only display the sidebar testimonials on particular pages. This part of my site uses a different sidebar than the blog. You can see the testimonials on the About, Services or Contact pages but not on the Portfolio page.
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