Heh. I just got done posting a quick shout to Jean-Baptiste for his excellent Sliding Doors + WordPress technique when I realized it had happened again: The Visual and HTML tabs on the WordPress text editor were broken again. I don’t know of any permanent fixes, but if this happens to you here’s how you can fix the issue temporarily:
I just got done experimenting with some options for the main menu here at Elite Freelancing. Given I don’t code PHP — I’m more of a cut ‘n’ paste kinda guy when it comes to PHP – I had to do some digging around to find what I needed. Specifically, I needed a way to add tags into wp_list_categories so that WordPress.
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So today I’m chippin’ away at a redesign for my rusted art website. Like most sites I develop, I rolled it out on WordPress. I seemed to have run a into a bug though, and I’m not sure if this a localized me thing, or a legit gremlin.
Looming stock market crashes. Government bailouts. Rate cuts. Recessions. Depressions. These are all words gladly being thrown around by the mainstream media of late. And we all know the mainstream press loves nothing more than selling us doom by the truck load.
I’m no economist, but it seems only natural that markets should correct themselves (level off and perhaps retract) after consecutive years of positive domestic and global growth. In any case, the situation is what it is. So what’s a freelancer to do amidst leaner and tougher economic times? The answer is: Be even more valuable to your clients.
One of the best and arguably easiest ways to generate good faith with your clients is via the customer service you provide. I’m an advocate of providing killer customer service wherever possible for many reasons. A large part of that killer service is how fast you get back to your clients.
Yep, speed is important! The old cliche is that “time is money” and when your clients consistently get super fast responses to their queries, your stock with them invariably goes up. It’s also important to understand that as a freelancer one of your greatest strengths is your mobility. Studios and development teams aren’t generally able to respond as quickly as you are. So get guerrilla and leverage that competitive advantage to the max!
Users of WordPress 2.6 will know that you can insert captions underneath photos and images within your posts. If any of you have tried to add hyperlinks within a caption, you’ll also know that WordPress will strip that link faster than a suspected terrorist at LAX when you hit save.
Now, I’m not techy enough to know exactly why WordPress strips links from captions but it does. I do know that with some fiddling about, I finally found a fairly straight forward workaround that doesn’t involve custom fields or plugins.
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