Wordpress

I love when things go wrong!  It gives me an opportunity to, perhaps, enlighten people with solutions that may find themselves in a familiar situation.  Recently, I have been toying with some comments systems on the site, namely Intense Debate and DISQUS.  In the process of experimenting with both of these services I noticed that there had been no comments …

WordPress is a very flexible platform for site owners.  Unfortunately, by default, WordPress limits many of the things you can do right off the bat.  One thing I have encountered lately is the need to have contributors upload images to insert into posts as this is not allowed from the start with WordPress.  You may be asking, why is this …

There are many things about WordPress that have a catch 22 effect on you; something that you love but drives you crazy at the same time.  One of these features happens to be the post revisions introduced in current version of the CMS.  Post revisions are an excellent concept and I have used it on more than one occasion, however, …

There is a lot of functionality that a plugin can add to your WordPress configuration, but for some reason I can’t feel comfortable relying simply on plugins for everything.  When something simple comes along that can be done without a plugin, I would much rather go that route.  With that said, I had been looking for an easy way to …

For a lot of us, transitioning from one post to another can be difficult to do.  I try to do it with a Post Thumbnail, but it just seems like it is missing something.  There is an easy way you can separate posts with a separator image and all you have to do is modify your theme’s style.css file.

There are many things about WordPress that make life easy… and a few that are a real pain in the butt.  One of the pains is the login form’s logo and url.  If you are like me, you want to brand your sites and doing so gives the site that extra touch of personalization.  Not to mention, if you are …

I can’t tell you how many times I have written an article, hit publish, then realized that I made some mistakes.  It doesn’t matter how much I proofread a post, it happens all the time.  With that, our readers get these articles delivered to them through my feed.  Wouldn’t it be nice if I could delay the feed a bit, …

If you run your site on WordPress and using it as a content management system, you may have realized that there are categories of posts that you don’t want published on your feed.  There is no easy way to do this through WordPress by default, but that doesn’t mean that this isn’t possible to accomplish.  You can eliminate certain categories …

In WordPress, there are two ways to display a summary of a post that I have found so far.  Depending on your scenario you can use either php the_content(‘Read more…’); ?>  or . I usually end up using both depending on the page that is being displayed and simply choose which with a “if, else” statement.  In most scenarios it …

As WordPress becomes more popular in the Web Designer circles (is that possible?), many of the functions we are looking for are simply not integrated by default.  One of the functions I searched for for a long time was a way to filter comments so pingbacks and trackbacks wouldn’t be displayed on my posts or pages.  I personally don’t care …