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wordpress tricks, hacks, and tips

A unique way to find WordPress themes at blog.biz

Miriam Schwab | December 4, 2007 | 1 Comment

We WordPressers are always on the search for that perfect WordPress theme. There are a lot of sites out there that display and feature WordPress themes, but I just came across blog.biz and I thought it was worth noting since it is different than others I've seen, not just because of the ... View Post

Plugin creates web form that allows users to post to WordPress without registering

| December 2, 2007 | 10 Comments

If you want to create a multi-user or multi-author WordPress blog, it generally means having others register on the site, and then log in and write new posts. This has a few disadvantages:

You may not want to allow unlimited and unrestricted registration on your site, where unknown people gain access to your back end.

The

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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

Giving each comment its own link in WordPress

| November 28, 2007 | 4 Comments

Being able to link to specific comments in your WordPress blog could be very handy. Good comments can really add a lot of value to a blog, and you or others may want to refer to specific comments in your posts by linking to them. In general, comments can be linked to, but to ... 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 | 195 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

User Interface Icons in three different sizes

| November 12, 2007 | 1 Comment

User Interface Icons.com has released 140 very pretty icons in .png format, and in 3 different sizes: 48x48 pixels, 32x32 pixels, and 24x24 pixels. Definitely worth adding to your icon arsenal.

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Hard-coding an SEO friendly title in the WordPress header file

| November 12, 2007 | 5 Comments

The title I am referring to here is the title that appears in the top bar of your browser, and is in betweeen <title></title> tags in your code. Apparently, to make it more SEO friendly, the title of the post or article should appear before the title of your blog, but generally themes have ... View Post

Display recent posts in WordPress sidebar

| November 11, 2007 | 67 Comments

Here's a bit of code to put in your sidebar to display the most recent posts on your blog: <?php $myposts = get_posts('numberposts=10&offset=1'); foreach($myposts as $post) :?> <li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title();?></a></li> <?php endforeach; ?> You can set the number of recent posts to appear on the first line of code where it says numberposts=10 - change the 10 ... View Post

Almost 1% of all web pages are powered by WordPress!

| November 9, 2007 | 6 Comments

Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress and Automattic, spoke at Blog World Expo on blogging, open source and WordPress. Here are some highlights from his speech, and interesting tidbits about WordPress (from News.com):