Combining these buttons with the WordPress codex is pretty easy. Insert a couple snippets of code and you can easily add the URL and post/page title dynamically to the “Tweets” and “Likes”.

The codes from the WordPress codex that we’re going to use are:

<?php the_permalink() ?> and <?php the_title(); ?>

Two lines of code and you’re all set up. Copy and paste the code below, style as needed to position the buttons how you see fit. For the Twitter Tweet button, don’t forget to replace my username with yours.

Facebook Like Button

<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=<?php the_permalink() ?>&amp;layout=button_count&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=100&amp;action=like&amp;font=arial&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=21" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:100px; height:21px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe>

Twitter Tweet Button

<a href="http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-text="<?php the_title(); ?>" data-count="horizontal" data-via="robbclarke">Tweet</a><script type="text/javascript" src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>

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Today, while moving a WordPress built site from one domain to another I ran into a snag. Import/Export for blog posts and pages worked great for moving the content from one site to the other but what do I do with the 79 users on the website? WordPress, sadly, doesn’t have an Import/Export function for users. For a minute, I panicked and thought “Am I going to have to manually enter all of these users into the site for a second time?” The answer is no.

Here’s the math:

Step 1: Export Original

Users to CSV is a useful plugin by Joost that lets you export your user list as a CSV file. Install the plugin to your site and run the program via the Users tab in the navigation of your back end. From here you’ll get a nice, neat CSV file with a table of your users – complete with IDs, email addresses, URLs, display names, first names, last names, nicknames, and registration dates.

Step 2: Install Importer

Now that you’ve got your CSV file exported you’re obviously going to need to get it installed on the new site. A great tool for this is Rode Works’ tweek of Dagon Design’s Import User plugin. The original automatically sent out notification emails to the new users saying that their new account was set up. Since their accounts are already supposed to be set up, you don’t wan to be sending out new notifications, this is where Rode Works’ tweek of the original code comes into play.

Step 3: Adjust CSV and Import

You’ll need to adjust your CSV file using Excel (or similar software) and move some cells around to meet the requirements of the Import User plugin but for the most part it’s pretty straight forward. You can either import the CSV file via the plugin or copy and paste the content into the back end.

There’s a bit of playing around involved but it in the end it should only really take about 10 minutes to do all of this – which is far better than the hours it would take to do it by hand, or worse, force the users to do it themselves.

This week I’m proud to announce the launch of the new River Valley Arts Alliance website. The website is build on the WordPress content management system, letting the client update the website at their leisure.

The site features:

• an events calendar
• photo slideshow
• photo gallery
• member application forms
• donation forms
• an artist database
• a microsite for their annual Dooryard Arts Festival

The website is going to be a great resources for keeping up to date with RiVA and the arts community in and around the Saint John River Valley. Be sure to check back frequently as we near the festival dates for Dooryard as more events and festivities are announced.

If you want to dynamically generate the URL of the page/post that you are currently viewing then all you need to enter is:

This code generates and displays the current URL, which is great for submitting articles to Digg, Facebook, Twitter etc. etc.

What a big sigh of relief it was when I found that. The funny thing is that it’s been staring me in the face all along.

Various Codes to Generate Different URLs in WordPress

Below is a list of a number of variables used to generate various URLs using WordPress. The variable is on the left and the result is on the right.

admin_email = admin@example
atom_url = http://example/home/feed/atom
charset = UTF-8
comments_atom_url = http://example/home/comments/feed/atom
comments_rss2_url = http://example/home/comments/feed
description = Just another WordPress blog
home = http://example/home
html_type = text/html
language = en-US
name = Testpilot
pingback_url = http://example/home/wp/xmlrpc.php
rdf_url = http://example/home/feed/rdf
rss2_url = http://example/home/feed
rss_url = http://example/home/feed/rss
siteurl = http://example/home
stylesheet_directory = http://example/home/wp/wp-content/themes/largo
stylesheet_url = http://example/home/wp/wp-content/themes/largo/style.css
template_directory = http://example/home/wp/wp-content/themes/largo
template_url = http://example/home/wp/wp-content/themes/largo
text_direction = ltr
url = http://example/home
version = 2.7
wpurl = http://example/home/wp

You can easily display this information by substituting the variable in the following code for the desired URL:

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Good friend and photographer, Nick Forret, approached me in early July about relaunching his website and I was more than happy to help him out. Nick’s old website, while nice looking, wasn’t set up to be easily edited by Nick who has little coding background. Our solution was to set up his new site using WordPress which let him easily update his website and even keep a blog. The new site is set up to automatically add Lightbox to his uploaded images, thus creating a bit of a fancy gallery for his users to view his work.

We’ve also set up a blog with comments enabled to promote discussion about various topics.

Nick is still in the process of adding content to the site but you can view the active site here:
http://www.nickforret.com

Don’t forget, Nick is always available for work!