WordPress Archives

Tips and Tricks on WordPress usage and development. I am very passionate about WordPress, but it doesn’t work just by itself – it needs a rich environment to live and breathe in.

If you’re after theme and plugin alterations, we have a category for that.

How to swap the post title and date in P2

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I’ve just posted this tweak in the WordPress P2 forum to help a user and thought I’d add it here too before I forget what I did. To swap the post title and date in P2 we’ll first grab a reference to each element, then we move one up and the other down. Like so: … Read more

How to embed YouTube and Vimeo videos in WordPress

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In this screencast I’ll show you how to embed YouTube and Vimeo videos into your WordPress posts. There’s no need to copy and paste code snippets and position them anymore, thanks to a technology called oEmbed (sometimes called auto embed). WordPress parses the URL to your videos and adds the code needed to display those … Read more

How to fix JetPack 3.0 Sharing Icons in P2

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JetPack 3.0 was released yesterday and it had quite a facelift: a new menu structure, dozens of graphical tweaks and a new set of Social Icons for sharing your posts. Those work well out of the box in TwentyThirteen and TwentyFourteen – but not in P2. Here’s how we can fix the problem. First let … Read more

How to change the width of an automatic oEmbed in WordPress

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wordpress-iconI was investigating an interring issue today: YouTube videos I was embedding on this very site did not fill the whole width of my theme. They were 500 pixels wide, and I know that P2 supports something a bit larger than that.

It didn’t really bother me, until I thought that embeds on my other site which is also using P2 look so much better. What was going on? What was the other site doing that this one wasn’t?

Turns out there are actually three different things to watch out for, and I’ll tell you about each one in a moment.

I remember vividly that there was an option under Settings – Media where you could set how wide and tall your auto embeds should be – but as of WordPress 3.5 this has been removed. If your website has been around for a while (like mine has) then these residual values may still be in the database and WordPress may still use them – as was the problem in my case.

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How to use P2 (screencast)

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In this video I will show you how to get the most out of the revolutionary P2 WordPress theme. It allows front-page posting and is an ideal solution for jotting down notes or communicating with others. I will explain how to create lists with simple shortcuts, add links, how to embed YouTube videos by simply … Read more