Archive for WordPress Tricks
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!
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
