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	<description>vanweerd.com is the site of digital innovation manager, web developer, technology enthusiast, Ronald van Weerd. The articles on this site focus on WordPress, web development, and Open Source software.</description>
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		<title>When NOT to use a caching plugin in WordPress</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ronald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From my experience as a Support Manager, I encounter a lot of &#8220;issues&#8221; with caching plugins in WordPress. It is good to understand what these plugins do (in general) and when to use them, and when not. How WordPress Generates Pages WordPress is a PHP/MySQL application. PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor. MySQL is a database [...]<h4>You might also like:</h4>
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		<title>How to arrange your WordPress posts in columns and rows</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ronald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every now and then, I get asked to do some customisations, and the one that regularly pops up is &#8220;I want to display posts in columns, {insert any number here} next to each other, just like in such-and-such (magazine) theme&#8221;. I created a piece of code that I am comfortable with, is easy to customise [...]<h4>You might also like:</h4>
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		<li><a href="http://vanweerd.com/how-to-register-and-list-users-based-on-user-roles-in-wordpress/" rel="bookmark">How to register and list users based on user roles in WordPress</a>(10.1)</li>
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		<title>A quick look at some new features in WordPress 3.1</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 13:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ronald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Nov. 25, 2010, WordPress 3.1 Beta 1 was released for testing purposes. There&#8217;s a feature stop, which means that the beta testing period will be used to collect and squash any bugs that are found.I had a quick look at what I thought were the most interesting &#8220;front-end&#8221; features, while the most promising backend [...]<h4>You might also like:</h4>
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		<title>Enhancing your WordPress 3 menus</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 13:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ronald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WordPress 3 comes with integrated menu management. Although still a bit quirky at times, it makes creating and managing (navigation) menus a breeze. However, now that creating and displaying a menu takes nothing more than one line of code (wp_nav_menu), we appear to have lost the ability to &#8220;manually&#8221; add our own stuff. For instance, [...]<h4>You might also like:</h4>
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		<title>How to add featured image thumbnails to WordPress posts and pages, the easy way</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ronald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since WordPress version 2.9, featured images (formerly known as &#8220;post thumbnails&#8221;) are integrated in the Write Post and Write Page panel. Not all WordPress themes make use of these fields, and a change to your template files is required. In this post I will explain how you can add Featured Images to your posts and [...]<h4>You might also like:</h4>
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		<title>How to replace text links with icon links in WP 3 navigation menus</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 13:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ronald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new WordPress 3 navigation menus are an excellent tool to design your own menus, mixing pages, categories and custom links. iThemes created video tutorials on how to use the new WordPress navigation in Builder and Flexx theme. The following tutorial will show how you can replace the text links in the navigation menu with [...]<h4>You might also like:</h4>
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		<title>How to retrieve a menu item ID from WP 3 navigation menus</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ronald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For an upcoming tutorial on the new menu system in WordPress 3, we need to identify each menu item, so that we can address that in our stylesheet. That way, we can add specific styling to a single menu item, which may be useful if you want to use images or icons in the menu [...]<h4>You might also like:</h4>
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		<title>How to register and list users based on user roles in WordPress</title>
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		<comments>http://vanweerd.com/how-to-register-and-list-users-based-on-user-roles-in-wordpress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ronald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The idea for this came from a request, where the customer wanted to allow users to register online, and then allow these users to be able to view a list of all other users that have registered. Regular site members, such as subscribers, editors, authors or contributors however should NOT be included, and neither should [...]<h4>You might also like:</h4>
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		<title>How to add full width header and footer to the Builder theme</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 22:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ronald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As seen on this site, designed and developed with the awesome Builder theme from iThemes, the header and footer stretch the entire width of the screen. Since Builder creates a fixed width container for your layout (based on the layout width you have selected), we need to do a little bit of extra work to [...]<h4>You might also like:</h4>
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		<title>How to add fixed icons to the side of your WordPress site</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 15:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ronald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By popular demand, here are instructions to add icons to your site that will stick to the sidebar, even when scrolling up or down the page. Inspired by various resources that I found on the web, I&#8217;ve tried to put together a set of instructions that will make this as easy as possible. The result [...]<h4>You might also like:</h4>
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