More Than Scratch The Surface

Actionable Analytics (WordCamp Melbourne)

Stephen Cronin — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:13:43 +0000

This page contains resources relating to my “Actionable Analytics” talk at WordCamp Melbourne on 27 April 2013.

Slides

I’ll embed the SlideShare slides once they are created, but for now, you can download the slides in either of the following formats:

jQuery To Select Duplicate Posts In WordPress Admin

Stephen Cronin — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:51:28 +0000

I have to wade through masses of user submitted posts and it’s always a pain to try to spot duplicate submissions. I therefore came up with the following jQuery code that identifies duplicates (based on title) and selects all but the first, so I can then delete them. … [visit site to read more]

Stop Category Pages From Showing No Results Message

Stephen Cronin — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 13:41:54 +0000

If you have a category page which has no posts, it will normally trigger your theme’s no posts found message. Seems sensible! However, I have an edge case where I don’t want that message displayed.
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How To Prevent Category Widget From Using Category Description As Title Attribute

Stephen Cronin — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 14:10:13 +0000

The Categories widget in WordPress uses the category description as the title attribute for the list items displayed by the widget. While this may be great for very short descriptions, it doesn’t make sense when longer descriptions are in use.
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How To Create A Silo Structure In WordPress

Stephen Cronin — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 13:33:07 +0000

Siloing is an SEO technique that creates strong keyword related themes on your site, improving the relevancy of your site in the eyes of the search engines. In this article, I cover the basics of the silo model and then show you how to implement siloing in WordPress.
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Siloing Your Site For SEO Success – Links

Stephen Cronin — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 05:53:17 +0000

Links relating to my “Siloing Your Site For SEO Success” talk at WordCamp Sydney on 22 July 2012.

Video

Slides

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JavaScript To Convert Bytes To MB, KB, Etc

Stephen Cronin — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:43:18 +0000

I’m currently writing a converter for the HAR file format, which is used by Firebug, Chrome Developer Tools, JMeter, etc to record information about a page loading. The HAR format stores the size of downloaded components in bytes. I wanted to convert this into KB, MB, etc, for display.
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WordPress And Government

Stephen Cronin — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:26:34 +0000

In this article, I’m going to discuss the reasons why WordPress hasn’t been used more in government and how we may be able to change this, as well as looking at the trend toward adopting WordPress that’s happening in government around the world. … [visit site to read more]

WordCamp Gold Coast 2011 – WordPress in Government

Stephen Cronin — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:45:43 +0000

I gave a talk titled “WordPress and Government – the Australian Perspective” at WordCamp GoldCoast on Sunday 6 November, 2011.

Here is the video of my talk, via WordCamp TV.

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Blogger ccTLD Redirects Break Adsense URL Channels

Stephen Cronin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:47:25 +0000

Google Blogger recently started redirecting visitors to the ccTLD version of Blogger appropriate for the reader’s location. Unfortunately, this has broken URL Channels in Google Adsense.
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