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How To Create WordPress Excerpts And Include Links In Them

Posted: May 28, 2017 Updated: July 19, 2024 by Claire Brotherton
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What are WordPress excerpts? WordPress excerpts are a short summary of a post or page. Excerpts are commonly shown on Blog pages. You might also see them on search results pages or archive pages. There may be a link following the excerpt to read the full post. Here’s an example from the previous theme of my […]

Category: WordPress Tags: excerpt

GAAD 2017: Translating good design into great accessibility

Posted: May 19, 2017 by Claire Brotherton
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GAAD 2017 – what is it? Yesterday was Global Accessibility Awareness Day or GAAD for short. This was the 6th GAAD. Its mission is to raise the awareness of usability and accessibility for everyone in the tech industry and beyond. Here is Joe Devon’s accessibility post which inspired the first GAAD. To mark GAAD 2017 I […]

Category: Accessibility Tags: accordion, GAAD, modal window, tab panel

Essential WordPress Plugins And How To Find Them

Posted: May 14, 2017 by Claire Brotherton
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When setting up a WordPress site, there are certain essential WordPress plugins that you’ll want to use. What are plugins? If you’re not familiar with plugins, they are software add-ons for WordPress which add extra functionality to your WordPress site. If WordPress themes are the decor in your house, plugins are the appliances – the items that […]

Category: WordPress Tags: ManageWP, plugins

Bootstrap for WordPress – What Is It And Do I Need It?

Posted: May 5, 2017 Updated: September 10, 2020 by Claire Brotherton
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So you are looking to create or redesign your WordPress site and someone has mentioned the word “Bootstrap” to you as a buzzword in relation to websites. Use Bootstrap. Bootstrap’s really cool. But what is it? And do you need Bootstrap for WordPress? What is Bootstrap? Bootstrap is a framework – a skeleton, if you […]

Category: WordPress Tags: Bootstrap, shortcode

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