How to Set Featured Image in WordPress 3.5 or Later

Setting the featured image changed just a bit with the upgrade to 3.5 and later. I’ve gotten several questions about how to set the featured image in WordPress 3.5 so I’m sharing for all in 3 Easy Steps. 1. Edit Your Post Edit your post and on the bottom right there should be a link…

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Tranformers of Themes

It just so happens that here at Think2Loud we love WordPress. We’re hoping that some of you do too and we want to share some of the exciting things we’ve learned or used that WordPress users (both novice and advanced) will find useful and informative. But we’re sure we don’t have all the answers, so…

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Enable Multi-Site in WordPress

WordPress merging with WordPress MU makes an awesome software package even better. The issue now is, how do you turn on the multi-site functionality? If you are like me and find yourself forgetting that one line of code needed to kick off the setup of multi-site within WordPress. Then you made it to the right…

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First Impressions: Genesis Theme Framework

Lately I’ve been doing a lot more work with WordPress, and it’s given me the opportunity to work on lots of different themes and theme frameworks. Given the choice I would much rather start a new theme from scratch. Of course “from scratch” means using one of the many starter themes people have put together,…

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Displaying custom post types on your WordPress blog homepage

So you have created a great new custom post type in WordPress 3.0 but it doesn’t show on your homepage. To add your new post type to the homepage you could use the following code in your functions.php. As you can see this code sets all the post types you would like to have displayed…

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WordPress Hosting

Think2Loud had been on shared hosting for just under two years, before I finally decided to take the leap and set up my own server. A few months ago I was reading a blog post by WooThemes about their new hosting setup. After reading about their insane hosting setup, I started doing a little research…

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How to see if a Post in WordPress has an Excerpt

On the single post page for our posts, we wanted to display the excerpt only if one had been entered. Since the built-in WordPress function to get the excerpt for a post will automatically generate one for you, we couldn’t just put the function in our post loop like what was done below.

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