A very popular way of displaying posts on a media heavy site is with a post thumbnail grid. This shows a grid of posts with their relevant thumbnails, you can even show the title & show a snippet from the excerpt. Let’s take a look at how it’s done.
Read moreThis is a little bit of a niche post, but it’s all about a problem I had recently with my site. It was all to do with WordPress and how it responded when running under PHP as FastCGI instead of CGI.
Read moreThere are lots of websites hosted on shared hosting in this age, and the majority are probably running WordPress. While it’s a great application once set up with plugins it isn’t the lightest one on the block. Here we are going to look at making WordPress as shared server friendly as possible.
Read moreA great idea for some WordPress blogs is to have a related posts widget. However they generally require a plugin to work & too many plugins can slow down even the leanest (and most optimized) WordPress blog. Here is a great alternative to using a plugin.
Read moreThere has been a few people contact me recently on exactly how to setup and/or use my plugin Twitter Stream. To clear it up here is a video tutorial on how to go through setup, and set the options for the widget.
Read moreSometimes you want to add some code into the head of your WordPress blog. Normally you’d just hard code it, but what if it’s dynamic or you just want to keep your theme files uncluttered from PHP. Here’s how to do it.
Read moreTwitter is exceptionally popular for promoting your blog, or business. Having a Twitter social bookmark icon on your blog enables visitors, or even yourself to tweet the current blog article you are reading very quickly & easily. Here is how to create one.
Read moreAfter the release of WordPress 2.7 and the advent of threaded comments the classic comment loop vanished, and wp_list_comments appeared. This tutorial will show you how to use wp_list_comments and create customised comments.
Read moreSometimes you just don’t want certain pages, or posts to appear when a user searches your WordPress blog. Here is a quick & easy tip to rid your search results of those pesky posts/pages, plus an extra tip to remove pages completely.
Read moreWordPress is the staple blogging application across the internet, but sometimes on a shared, or low memory server it can use too much memory. Here are my tips for reducing the amount of memory WordPress uses.
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