Google say it is really easy to add the AdSense responsive code to WordPress. But if, like me, you manually control the placement of ads then the cut and paste code that Google provides doesn’t work. I use the WordPress Genesis theme – so these instructions have been based around that. However these instructions should […]
Fix WordPress deprecated simplepie errors – assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in class-simplepie.php
When you login to your WordPress blog and look at the dashboard you see a bunch of errors under “Incoming links”, “WordPress Blog” and the “Plugins” areas as shown below. The errors, and there will be over 100 of them, will say something like: Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated […]
Joomla shows £ instead of £
A strange problem occurred on a client’s Joomla 1.5 website. When they edited the site from the frontend and typed in a £ sign it appeared as £ when it was saved. However, if the same change was made from the Joomla 1.5 administrators area it saved the character as a £. Even stranger, originally […]
Change length of WordPress blog summary
My particular WordPress theme looked great but I found it a bit frustrating when I could only see a dozen or so words before “Read More”. It was not enough to generate interest in the article so I had to find out how to increase it. It’s actually fairly simple when you know how! To […]
Remove ‘Archive for’ in WordPress Blog Categories
I have just spent half an hour trying to figure out how to remove the very annoying “Archive for” text that appears when I set up menu items that point to my Blog Categories in WordPress 3.1. After a bit of messing round I found the answer! I Googled it in the hope to find […]