wordpress tricks, hacks, and tips

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Using WordPress comments as a contact form

| February 4, 2008 | 3 Comments

Justin Tadlock has posted a way to use built-in WordPress comments in lieu of a contact form. Basically, you replace your theme's current comments.php file with the one that Justin offers for downloading that checks if a page is called "Contact." If it is, the ... View Post

10 steps to a more splog-free WordPress blog

| January 16, 2008 | 12 Comments

Last Thursday, I realized that this blog was being scraped. I'm sure it was being scraped before, but I never really wanted to spend time looking into it. A blog takes so much time to write and manage, that I didn't want to add ... View Post

Advanced Dork Firefox add-on gives you right-click access to Google search options

| January 8, 2008 | 0 Comments

When developing blogs or sites on WordPress, we often have to search for information or need help solving a problem, and in those times many of us turn to Google. Did you know that Google has zillions of ways that you can focus your ... View Post

Problem with class.php when upgrading to WordPress 2.3.1

| December 19, 2007 | 2 Comments

We just upgraded a client's site from WordPress 2.2. to WordPress 2.3.1. After upgrading, the theme still worked, but the links to Pages in the upper navigation bar stopped working and they all linked to the home page instead of to their pages, and an annoying error appeared at the top of ... View Post

Changing where WordPress saves your uploaded images and files

Miriam Schwab | November 29, 2007 | 1 Comment

In my previous post on using thumbnails with WordPress' custom fields feature, I explained a way to change where WordPress saves images and files you upload from the Write Post/Page page. Generally, any images or files you upload while ... View Post

Images, thumbnails and custom fields in WordPress

Miriam Schwab | November 26, 2007 | 21 Comments

I've learned a lot about custom fields since I posted about programming thumbnails into your WordPress theme with custom fields, thanks to everyone's comments here and on weblog tools collection, who referred to my post. I decided to collect all the links posted in the comments here so that we all have ... View Post

Giving each WordPress post a thumbnail, and display the thumbnail on the home page

Miriam Schwab | November 21, 2007 | 193 Comments

// You may encounter situations where you need to automatically display a thumbnail or image of some kind that will link to posts. Here's an example of this kind of situation: ... View Post

The best Firefox shortcut ever – scroll through tabs with ease!

| November 5, 2007 | 21 Comments

I love Firefox, and it is my browser of choice without a doubt. But there is one thing that annoys me whenever I'm using it - the fact that I can't use a shortcut to easily move between tabs, i.e. there's no alt-tab type of shortcut like there is for moving between ... View Post