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QuickTip: Show More Pages in your WordPress Dashboard

| May 12, 2011 | 3 Comments
I am totally in love with the Screen Options pull down tab in WordPress. I know it's been there for a few versions, but I never fully appreciated it until I started using the Show on Screen feature that lets you fill in how many pages you want to show in your list of ... View Post

Publishing WordPress posts in two columns

| March 20, 2008 | 31 Comments
We're currently building a site on Adii's Premium Gazette WordPress theme (this is an affiliate link). In my opinion, it's an awesome theme particularly because of the design. However, we installed it on the client's server of choice, and the posts on the homepage just wouldn't update. We tested it out on different ... View Post

My posts are getting swallowed up by WordPress

| December 28, 2007 | 9 Comments
Over the past few days, I have written two posts on two different WordPress self-hosted blogs that have disappeared when I pressed save. I couldn't retrieve them. I wrote one of the posts straight in WordPress' text editor, and the other one I wrote in Windows Live Writer. You would think I could go back ... View Post

Using PHP to alternate background colors for comments or posts in WordPress

| December 26, 2007 | 21 Comments
Some blogs have alternating background colors for their comments and posts, i.e. a green background for every even comment and post, and a grey background for every odd comment and post. How do they do that? Alternating Comments Styles To alternate comments, add the following code to your comments.php template file, under where it says <?php ... View Post

Importing RSS feeds as posts in WordPress, and managing your twitter, facebook, tumblr and WordPress lives in one fell swoop

| December 17, 2007 | 8 Comments
I am constantly finding links that I think are not worth a whole post, but I would like to mention here anyways. So I wanted to find a quick and easy way to display short links that would become part of the blog stream, without causing clutter. I also wanted to do this in a ... View Post

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

| 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

Display recent posts in WordPress sidebar

| November 11, 2007 | 64 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

My favorite WordPress tip

| September 8, 2007 | 1 Comment
Blogging Challenge - Lorelle on WordPressIn Lorelle's latest blog challenge, she asks us to describe our favorite WordPress tip. She says to think back to when we started experimenting with WordPress, and try to remember what tips we found valuable. I started ... View Post

Aizatto’s Related Posts Plugin

| April 22, 2007 | 3 Comments
Most WordPress users are familiar with the WASABI Related Entries plugin. I've never used it because it involves messing around with the database tables. Instead, I have been using the Simple Tagging feature of displaying related posts based on tags used in ... View Post

Make sure images aren’t too wide for your blog

| April 12, 2007 | 0 Comments
If you insert an image in your post that is too wide for your blog layout, it will break the design. The iMax width plugin sets a maximum width for photos. This is useful for the following reasons:
  • It won't allow you or other users to inadvertently break your
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