Displaying A Blog Format Within A Page Template In WordPress
WordPress has always been popular as a blogging application, but recently with all the new features available it has become widely used as a CMS.
Read moreUsing The Attached Image With Custom Post Thumbnails In WordPress
With the introduction of post thumbnails in WordPress The Attached Image could have become redundant, but I think it has still held it’s own thanks to having some features WP’s own function doesn’t. Here is another new feature.
Read moreCreating Your First WordPress Plugin
Today I’m a going to go over how to create your very first WordPress plugin. It’s not going to do anything complicated, just introduce those who want to get into WordPress plugin development started.
Read moreUsing Custom Fields In Your WordPress Template
While you no longer need to use custom fields to help show post images they are still an extremely useful tool for theme developers. They can be used for all manner of different things, from displaying favorite films to showing what products a design is available on. In this tutorial we are going to look at how to use them.
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WordPress Conditional Template Tags
Despite being a very useful feature in WordPress I have noticed that, in my experience, some WordPress users don’t know they exist. Here we take a quick look at why conditionals are, what they are used for, and even show a small example.
Read moreCreating A Post Thumbnail Grid In WordPress
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 moreWordPress: PHP CGI Vs PHP FCGI
This 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 moreOptimizing WordPress For Shared Hosting
There 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 moreCategory Based Related Posts For WordPress
A 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 moreTwitter Stream How To Video
There 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.
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