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Creating the post thumbnails on this blog

WordPress Tips & Tricks

The thumbnails on this blog don’t look much different from most other thumbnails out on the web. They’re all set to a standard 650px wide by 120px tall, automatically cropped thanks to WordPress. But there are a few nice things happening behind the scenes, so I thought I’d share how I did it.

First, I added a few lines into… Read the rest

How to add custom RSS feeds or custom content to current feeds

WordPress Tips & Tricks

A client wanted their blog feeds, which were being syndicated via email by Feedburner, to include post author information and a ‘tweet this’ link at the top of each email between the title and post content.

By default Feedburner strips out the native RSS2 author info (no idea why, nor at the time of this writing does anyone on the… Read the rest

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