It’s inevitable when you install Jetpack that some things on your site will need to be re-updated.  I found this out when I installed Jetpack and couldn’t find the footer overrides so the site was showing the “Proudly powered by WordPress” message at the bottom.

Gotta love Jetpack by WordPress‘s “infinite scroll” feature though — and Jetpack in general is great!

After a little digging, I found the solution.  I only wasted another 10 minutes of my life updating something so small but so necessary.  Again.  Don’t you love how the web has turned us all into overly-anal critics paying attention to things that in normal life elsewhere just plain simply wouldn’t matter?  Yes, the line at the footer of the website that no one reads, when did we all turn into such hollow digital echoes of our real selves?…..  🙂

Here’s the code you need to put in your child theme’s function.php file:

add_filter( 'infinite_scroll_credit', 'my_footer_text' );

function my_footer_text() {
return '<a href="http://linkOrNot">Proudly created not by WordPress, or whatever you want to put in here, everyone knows its WordPress anyway....</a>';
}

 


Want to upload videos to WordPress but need to convert them and resize them down for the web?  Here’s a great article about free resources available like “WinFF“.  The Nose Creek blog goes into details about the proper settings and even provides links to not only download the free software but the best presets that will be available in the WinFF preset pulldowns.

Click here to read the entire informative article.

– Aaron Belchamber


I’ve seen some interesting solutions to making sure files that get uploaded outside of WordPress that are meant to be digested by WordPress get handled.  Scripts, plug-ins, etc.  The crux of the problem stems from the fact that if you FTP files into your WordPress site’s “uploads” directory, those files won’t show up.  That’s because a user didn’t use the media manager to alert WordPress to their existence and essentially register the files in WordPress, which is basically another record in its database.

There’s a simple plug-in that will allow you to find any file on your webserver and transfer those files and import them into the media library.  This blog article, though somewhat dated, is still relevant.  I’ve used this “Add From Server” plug-in before and works as advertised!

Here’s the link to the article about the challenge “Add From Server” solves:

“How to Bulk Upload Files to the WordPress Media Library”

I hope I saved someone a little time and trouble with their website!

 

– Aaron Belchamber


The newest version of WordPress is 4.1 and it keeps getting better and more convenient to upload and embed videos on your website.  Just a note of caution, however!

Be sure your .mpg/.mp4 video files have an audio track or it is likely your video will not be recognized or play in WordPress.

I’m not complaining, just hoping I will save others who may produce videos the trouble of having to rerender their video files with an audio track when they don’t have one.  This isn’t a deal breaker, but it’s also not efficient.  After all, if you have a video, say an animation that is without sound, you shouldn’t have to output an empty audio track, it’s just a little more work and makes the files just a little bigger.  Not a big deal in the whole scheme of things, but then again, in the aggregate, is still is wasteful and a bit annoying.

– Aaron Belchamber


I started moving some websites, including this one, to Disqus’s comment platform to help manage all the comments and questions. It’s a good platform to alleviate some of the inflow of issues while helping make new relevant connections and perhaps build high quality backlinks through discussions.

As of this point, I have added the latest Disqus WordPress plug-in to 3 sites, performed the database upgrade required, and can report I have not encountered any issues with WordPress 4.0 and Disqus. I’m sure you’ve seen the ominous note at the bottom of the plug-in where it says “Untested in your current version of WordPress”.

Yikes — scary. Worst case it’d take your site down for 5 minutes before you restored it. Still, it’s recommended you make a back up of your WordPress database before installing any new plug-ins, and this should be no exception. It was an easy, 1 minute install. It is worth considering for your site or blog! Visit Disqus’s website for more information.