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Statistics released on June 21, 2011, show that WordPress is used in 63% of all websites using content management systems, commonly called CMS. Content management system distribution is calculated from the top million websites on the Internet. The CMS with the second place position among content management based websites is Joomla, but at a mere 10% it pales in comparison to the popularity of WordPress. This is a testament to the superiority of WordPress as an overall website CMS. WordPress has a simplicity that makes it very popular with end users, yet it’s potential for functional complexity is unlimited. WordPress web designers appreciate the straight forward templating system and the power to create virtually any web design from a WordPress website. Companies appreciate that WordPress is the most stable and up to date website CMS in the industry. And software developers reap the benefits of the WordPress open plugin architecture, allow anyone to program a custom website application that simply ‘plugs in’ to the WordPress core. WordPress was voted best website CMS in 2009 and 2010, and there is no doubt it will claim a Hat Trick in 2011.

Below is a chart displaying the current website CMS distribution ratios, with WordPress claiming the vast majority share of 63%.

Website CMS Distribution in Top Million Sites

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WordPress was voted Best Website CMS (content management system) for 2010, under the Hall of Fame category, which is reserved for software that has won the Open Source CMS Award at least once in the past. WordPress was voted Best CMS of 2009 as well. Two years in a row establishes a trend that much of the world’s web design community already knows, WordPress is the best website publishing system in the World. But don’t take a Sarasota website designer ‘s word for it. And don’t let the votes of the Open Source Awards sway your opinion, nor the other hundreds of thousands of website designers across the world who swear by WordPress web design. Instead, ask Yahoo why they use WordPress. Ask Sony why they use WordPress. Ask the New York Times, CBS, Pepsi, GM, GE, MIT, Intel, Best Buy, The U.S Army, The U.S. Air Force, Harvard University, The Wall Street Journal, National Geographic, Samsung, Ebay, Duke University, Delta Air Lines, Lexus, San Diego Zoo, Xerox, Fox News, The NFL, Nokia, Cornell University, The American Red Cross, Library of Congress, Forbes, Boston University, The Official Star Wars Blog, National Republican Senatorial Committee, University of Southern California, Network Solutions, MTV, McAfee, Fischer Price, Nikon, Blackberry, Nivea, University of Maine, Mozilla, Republican Governors Association, University of Arkansas,  Congressional Budget Office, Oregon State University, AMD, DC Comics, Wired, University of Toronto, Rackspace, ZDNet, University of Florida, Carnival Cruise Lines, Reuters, Anderson Cooper 360, University of Missouri, Larry King Live, Danielle Steel, University of Melbourne, Benjamin Netanyahu, Nancy Pelosi, University of Berlin, Charles Barkley, Ryan Seacrest, Sylvester Stallone, University of Calgary…. And that is just a small sample of the companies and institutions that are using WordPress web design to manage corporate, government and organization websites. So you can feel confident that WordPress web design will serve your website needs. Razworks Web Design Sarasota specializes in WordPress web design. Call Razworks today for a free Sarasota Web design consultation – 941-685-8851. Or click here to send Razworks a quick email.

The featured image functionality in WordPress is quite useful.

Example:

Just displays the featured image thumbnail without sizing or attributes..

To modify the comment form in a WordPress website, it is best practice to pass arguments to the comment_form function in the web design theme. For example, the WordPress 3.x default theme, TwentyTen, you would edit the comment_form function in the comments.php theme template.

The default function is:

<?php comment_form(); ?>

For example, to remove the Website URL field, remove the allowed markup list, and change the labels for the name, email and message fields, you would replace the default function with:

<?php $comment_args = array( 'fields' => apply_filters( 'comment_form_default_fields', array(
 'author' => '<p>' .
 '<label for="author">' . __( 'Please enter your name' ) . '</label> ' .
 ( $req ? '<span>*</span>' : '' ) .
 '<input id="author" name="author" type="text" value="' .
 esc_attr( $commenter['comment_author'] ) . '" size="30"' . $aria_req . ' />' .
 '</p><!-- #form-section-author .form-section -->',
 'email'  => '<p>' .
 '<label for="email">' . __( 'Please enter your email' ) . '</label> ' .
 ( $req ? '<span>*</span>' : '' ) .
 '<input id="email" name="email" type="text" value="' . esc_attr(  $commenter['comment_author_email'] ) . '" size="30"' . $aria_req . ' />' .
 '</p><!-- #form-section-email .form-section -->',
 'url'    => '' ) ),
 'comment_field' => '<p>' .
 '<label for="comment">' . __( 'Please enter your comments, questions or requests:' ) . '</label>' .
 '<textarea id="comment" name="comment" cols="45" rows="8" aria-required="true"></textarea>' .
 '</p><!-- #form-section-comment .form-section -->',
 'comment_notes_after' => '',
);
comment_form($comment_args); ?>

Save and upload and your WordPress comment form will now be changed.

WordPress 3.x ushered in a new groundbreaking overhaul of the world’s most popular website content management system. Along with powerful new tools that make WordPress the modern web developer’s CMS package of choice, a new WordPress default theme was released, TwentyTen. The new TwentyTen theme ships as the default WordPress theme and replaces the old, dated Kubric default theme. TwentyTen has a more modern look and uses more modern functionality, while remaining simple enough to be used as a default theme.

WordPress recommends that theme author’s make a copy of the default theme that ships with WordPress, and use this copy as a template when creating a new custom theme. This makes perfect sense. By keeping an active version of the default WordPress theme installed, a theme author can always revert to the default theme, should a problem arise. An active default theme also serves as a great troubleshooting tool for theme authoring and plugin installation.

A common edit to the TwentyTen theme is removing the authored by listing from the post meta title, generated by a function called ‘twentyten_posted_on’. This is rather simple to resolve.

The twentyten_posted_on function is in the functions.php file, on line 273.

Remove the values for the author by changing the following code:

function twentyten_posted_on() {
 printf( __( '<span>Posted on</span> %2$s <span>by</span> %3$s', 'twentyten' ),
 'meta-prep meta-prep-author',
 sprintf( '<a href="%1$s" title="%2$s" rel="bookmark"><span>%3$s</span></a>',
 get_permalink(),
 esc_attr( get_the_time() ),
 get_the_date()
 ),
 sprintf( '<span><a href="%1$s" title="%2$s">%3$s</a></span>',
 get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ),
 sprintf( esc_attr__( 'View all posts by %s', 'twentyten' ), get_the_author() ),
 get_the_author()
 )

Your modified code should look like this:

function twentyten_posted_on() {
 printf( __( '<span>Posted on</span> %2$s', 'twentyten' ),
 'meta-prep',
 sprintf( '<a href="%1$s" title="%2$s" rel="bookmark"><span>%3$s</span></a>',
 get_permalink(),
 esc_attr( get_the_time() ),
 get_the_date()
 )

Now only the “Posted on Month, Day, Year” will display on post meta-titles. The author will no longer display.

With WordPress 3.0.1, you can add images to identify each post individually.

Make sure the function:  ‘add_theme_support( ‘post-thumbnails’ ); ‘ is clarified in your functions.php file.

Then add the following to your loop.php file where you want the post thumbnail to appear:

<?php // The Post Thumbnail function is active by default, but this line of php will make it display.
if ( function_exists(“has_post_thumbnail”) && has_post_thumbnail() ) { the_post_thumbnail(array(100,60), array(“class” => “alignright post_thumbnail”));
} //Post Thumbnail Ends ?>

So if you want your web design to show thumbnails on the post title, insert the code with the title attribute:

<h2><a href=”<?php the_permalink(); ?>” title=”<?php printf( esc_attr__( ‘Permalink to %s’, ‘twentyten’ ), the_title_attribute( ‘echo=0′ ) ); ?>” rel=”bookmark”><?php the_title(); ?>

<?php // The Post Thumbnail function is active by default, but this line of php will make it display.
if ( function_exists(“has_post_thumbnail”) && has_post_thumbnail() ) { the_post_thumbnail(array(100,60), array(“class” => “alignleft post_thumbnail”));
} //Post Thumbnail Ends ?>

</a></h2>

If you want your web design to show thumbnails before the content, insert the code before the content attribute:

<div>
<?php // The Post Thumbnail function is active by default, but this line of php will make it display.
if ( function_exists(“has_post_thumbnail”) && has_post_thumbnail() ) { the_post_thumbnail(array(100,60), array());
} //Post Thumbnail Ends ?>
<?php the_content( __( ‘Continue reading <span>&rarr;</span>’, ‘twentyten’ ) ); ?>
<?php wp_link_pages( array( ‘before’ => ‘<div>’ . __( ‘Pages:’, ‘twentyten’ ), ‘after’ => ‘</div>’ ) ); ?>
</div><!– .entry-content –>

CSS code hints for customizing the WordPress default theme ‘TwentyTen’.

Many of  these css snippets will work as-is. Others may require a specific url path or image name. read more…

Sometimes clients request the contextual help be removed

Near line 3643 you will see this code:

<div id="contextual-help-link-wrap"><a id="contextual-help-link" href="#contextual-help"></a></div

Removing the PHP code and anchor will disable the contextual help.

WordPress is the most popular website CMS, offering unlimited scalability with unrivaled ease of use. The WordPress team is constantly working to improve the software, and WordPress version updates are issued more with more frequency than probably any other Website content management system. This ensures that WordPress consistantly leads the way in respect to Internet software modernization and innovation.

Anytime a newer version of WordPress is available, following notice is displayed at the top center of the WordPress administration interface:

"WordPress *.*.* is available! Please update now."

Many website owners will rarely, if ever, need to upgrade their WordPress version. In such cases the update message that can be a bit annoying. In some cases, older versions of WordPress are not compatible with the newer major revision upgrades, and performing an automatic upgrade could break the website. These are both good reasons to hide the upgrade message. Thankfully this is easily accomplished via the WordPress functions.php file.
Add this code to the functions.php file:

<?php
remove_action('wp_version_check', 'wp_version_check');
remove_action('admin_init', '_maybe_update_core');
add_filter('pre_transient_update_core', create_function( '$a', "return null;"));
?>

The message will no longer be displayed.

WordPress 3.0 is a revolutionary release to the world’s #1 website content management system.  There are several new functionality additions to the WordPress 3.0 release, but custom post types is arguably one of the most important.

Custom post types empowers WordPress designers with a fantastic new toolset for creating custom WordPress websites.  In the following example, I’m going to make a very simple custom comment form to allow visitors to submit comments to a predefined post, creating a web page that can be used for submitting testimonials, etc.

This example assumes that you are familiar with editing WordPress template files, such as functions.php, single.php, ect. read more…