Headway Video Site by John Haydon

Lately I have been sending people to get hooked up with the Headway theme. It’s latest version has an incredible visual editor. No more knowing CSS or code!

John Hayden has just come out with Headway Video site. A perfect resource for tutorial videos on Headway. Check it out here.

And if you decide you would like to purchase Headway, please consider our affiliate link on the right side of this page.

8 Recent Thoughts on WordPress

Hey, you may already know this, but WordPress is my life. Yes, I work with it on a daily basis. And no, I don’t know everything. But I enjoy finding those solutions to problems I have yet to conquer. So, just for the heck of it, here are eight thoughts I am having right now on WordPress as I sit here.

1. Themes are a constant challenge. Their coding and CSS isn’t always obvious. Still convinced it’s worth paying for one.
2. Permalinks are great. But if you move a site, and you suddenly start getting 404 errors on all of your pages, except your homepage, it can be a permalink problem. Simply go in and reset to default, save, then reset your custom permalink. That may just solve the problem.
3. Bluehost is still my favorite hosting site. Three issues this week, all resolved within 15 minutes via the 24/7 chat.
4. Nothing more gratifying then helping someone on Twitter solve a WordPress issue by sending them to a blog post I did.
5. Looking forward to the WordPress workshop I’ll be presenting tomorrow, WordPress and the 3 Bears – Themes, Plugins and Widgets.
6. Blogging is not dead.
7. Cringe when other so-called WordPress developers and “experts” say you can create yourself an awesome online presence in just a few hours.
8. Still don’t like the over-used cliches rockstar or sucks in any kind of reference to WordPress, or as a matter of fact, anything in life.

So, a bit of meandering, but just imagine what all my thoughts are in a day’s time!

Excluding categories in the sub-navigation bar

Just a quick tip this AM.

If you have a theme that has a sub-navigation bar for categories, often they have a theme setting on which categories you can include or not in the bar. But if they don’t, here is a few steps to ensure certain one’s won’t appear…

First, you need to find out the number ID for each category you want to exclude. An easy way of doing this it to go to your category list page under “posts”, then run your cursor over the page to identify the number. Look at the bottom of your browser page and you will see a url with the number at the end.

Now go into your appearance menu, and choose the editor. On the left hand find your file “header (header.php) and open it.

Look for this code:

<?php wp_list_categories(‘orderby=name&title_li=&depth=2′); ?>

Replace it with this

<?php wp_list_categories(‘orderby=name&title_li=&depth=2&exclude=1,2,3‘); ?>

or you can use this to select only the categories you want to appear

<?php wp_list_categories(‘orderby=name&title_li=&depth=2&include=1,2,3‘); ?>

Just remember, if you aren’t comfortable with coding, make sure you have everything exact, no extra spaces and no “,” after the last category number. To be safe, copy the whole files text into a text window as a backup. Good luck!