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How to Create a Welcome Page (Splash Page) for WordPress

We are not talking about a pop-up or setting a page as the homepage of your WordPress site here. A real solid page that is shown to visitors when they enter your site from another site, or search engine (which

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Display Posts from a Custom Taxonomy (Tag / Category) of a Custom Post Type

Since ver. 2.3 you could create custom Taxonomies and custom Post Types came in since ver. 3.0. In simple terms, Taxonomies are classifications and Post Types are well, they are Post Types. For e.g. Pages and Posts are two default

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Fixing Missing Excerpts Box, Post Tags Box and Custom Field Box in WordPress

I checked my WordPress installation and found everything in place and that bothered me at first. Then I looked into one of their installations and found the solution really simple.

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How To Create Short URL’s on your WordPress Domain without a Plugin or Script

If you are on WordPress you wont need any of those. Inherently, every post can be queried from the database using its post ID. For instance, this link and this link point to the same post.

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Fix For BuddyPress Activity Stream Not Showing Up on HomePage

First idea on my mind was to roll back to WordPress 3.0. So I googled for some WordPress downgrading plugins. Fortunately or Unfortunately there are none. Any plugin developers reading this? You might want to make the First WordPress Downgrade Plugin. Heck, I can code, I understand WordPress, why not fix the issue? And here it is, the work around.

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