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Adding shortcodes to other locations

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By default, WordPress only parses shortcodes in the main content area. Suppose you want to use shortcodes (WP-Members or otherwise) in locations other than the body text?  Here are some snippets you can add to your theme’s functions.php file to allow the use of shortcodes in the sidebar, comments, and excerpts: 

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Remove the name# anchor from the ‘more’ link

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This particular code snippet isn’t necessarily part of the plugin itself.  But since the plugin relies on post excerpts, it can help fix a what can be a minor annoyance on some sites.  WordPress automatically puts in an anchor link to where the ‘more’ tag is.  So when you click “read more” the browser will not only load the full post, it will jump to the location where the ‘more’ tag is.Depending on the length of your excerpt and the header of your site, this can make browsing awkward; especially if your average reader is like me – wanting to read the entire post from the beginning.

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Disable RSS feeds

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The WP-Members recommended WP Setting is to set RSS to summary. But if your site doesn’t need to have an RSS feed (such as a static site using only pages, or if you simply do not promote via RSS), it might be advantageous to turn of RSS.  Then that is one less thing you have to worry about protecting.  Here is how you can turn off RSS feeds for your site altogether.  Continue Reading →

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