Archive for WordPress Tips
Creating a “Blog Page” — With Paging
Creating a CMS style theme for WordPress sometimes requires you to move the blog posts to a /blog section. Here are 3 ways to create a /blog page — with paging.
WordPress Single Post Templates
Ever wondered how to create a custom template for WordPress posts based on category? You can do it with pages, and now you can do it with posts too!
7 Must-Have Plugins
WordPress is great, but sometimes it doesn’t do exactly what you want it to do. And that’s why plugins are so awesome! Here is a list of 7 plugins I install on every WordPress blog I run.
Comment Link in single.php
Ever noticed that the comments_popup_link function doesn’t actually output anything when viewing a single post?
I have … and until recently, I ended up just not including a link to the “comments” of a post when viewing a single post, and just hoping that either 1) no one noticed, or 2) no one would care, assuming [...]
PageRank, Technorati, and Free WordPress Themes
OK, first of all I want to preface this by saying that I have never, and will never try to game any ranking system. OOO — take that back, I did include sponsored links in some of my first free WordPress themes, but other than that, I’ve never tried to game a ranking engine. [...]
WordPress 2.3 Theme Backward Compatibility
Over at BlogginPro, the question was posed:
My biggest question is “what will happen if we take the newly updated theme, and place it on a blog running a previous version of WordPress?”
Is there some way to check which version of WordPress is being run, or will we have to put out a WordPress 2.3 only [...]
The Overlooked “Tag” Tags
OK, I admit being a sucker for all the “tag hype” in the WordPress Community too. I’ve seen all the WordPress bloggers (that is, bloggers who specialize in WordPress tips) try to be the first to write a tutorial on how to implement tagging in your WordPress theme. I’ve even been tempted to do [...]
WordPress Quick Tip: Turn off Smileys
This is just a very quick tip for your WordPress blog. One of the most annoying things about WordPress’s default settings is the fact that smileys are turned on by default. What’s a smiley, you say? When you put characters together like a colon and an closing parenthesis, WordPress replaces the text [...]
3 Ways to Optimize Your Blog Homepage
Back when I wrote “Good Design Starts with the Homepage”, I didn’t include much in the way of tips for actually achieving that perfect homepage. The fact is, there is an endless list of possibilities to optimizing your blog’s homepage, but I believe that if you do these 3 simple things, you’ll be on [...]
