Open comment author link in new window
October 12, 2009 16 Comments
How to modify the Wordpress comment author link to open the link in a new window. A short tutorial.
Customising wp_list_comments()
September 8, 2009 51 Comments
How to use custom callback functions to customise the output of wp_list_comments() Wordpress template tag in order to display Trackbacks and Pings differently to normal comments.
How to use phpinfo() with a phpinfo.php file
August 5, 2009 Leave a Comment
How to make a phpinfo.php file to check your server configuration settings.
Category description with multiple categories and get_the_category()
July 15, 2009 1 Comment
A tutorial on how to use the Wordpress get_the_category() function to display the category name and description even if the post is assigned to more than one category.
Limit Title plugin
July 12, 2009 7 Comments
A perfectly useable Wordpress plugin to limit the display length of Post and Page Titles. Activate it, replace the_title() with the_title_limit(args) in your theme template files, wherever needed, and no more anguish when your long Post Titles break your theme layout.
How to add a Widgetised area in a WordPress theme
July 11, 2009 28 Comments
Adding a new widget area to an existing theme is an easy and effective thing to do. Follow this tutorial to find out how!
Exclude subcategories from archive pages
January 9, 2009 14 Comments
If you use subcategories to organise your content in Wordpress, you will find that category archive pages show all posts belonging to the parent category and its subcategories. This tutorial shows you how to exclude subcategory posts from your parent category’s archive page.
Category description using get_the category()
December 21, 2008 7 Comments
The Wordpress get_the_category() function is another useful, but perhaps less well known, tool for displaying site content. Here’s an example of how to use it.
Revolution Theme full width Page Template
October 18, 2008 20 Comments
Tutorial showing you how to create a full width Page without a sidebar, using the popular Revolution Theme from Brian Gardner.
Create a different sidebar for a blog page
September 22, 2008 6 Comments
Using the popular Revolution Music theme, here is a tutorial showing how to create a different sidebar which is only displayed when viewing the single blog post page.
Complex loop with in_category(): Part 1
September 18, 2008 2 Comments
This article shows you how to build a complex loop using the in_category() function, which is especially useful for magazine-style themes. If posts have been assigned to more than one category, how can we create a query to search for a chosen number of posts which belong to two or more specified categories? This article shows you how using the Wordpress in_category() function.
Using Gravatars in WordPress themes
September 12, 2008 11 Comments
Adding Gravatar support to your theme, even without a plugin, is easy to do. This article shows you how to add Gravatars to your Comments.