Wordpress Tips

There are times when you want to add new features to your website and WordPress provides a number of ways to do this without editing the core code. It is important that you limit editing of core code files to a last resort. The reason being that any future update of WordPress will wipe out […]

If you are writing a WordPress plugin that needs to have an option box added to the New Post Page then you need to use the add_action to add your checkbox or radio selector item. How to do this: Write Your Function First write your function that may go to the DB and grab a […]

Making use of your downtime there are a number of good books that to checkout if you are someone that likes to have a book in front of you. Although we can not review every book out there here are a few that you can take with you on the Plane or on vacation this […]

If you don’t use twitter your life is probably a little happier HA! but if you do and you want to automate the process of listing your new WordPress Posts on your Twitter account you can try one of the many plugins available. The choices are many but you should understand what you need to […]

There are a few plugins in WordPress that require a WordPress API key for activation. One of the Primary Plugins that you are sure to run into as soon as you begin setting up your Blog is the Akismet Spam Filter plugin But what is an API Key and where do you get one. Well […]

Many sites have different levels of users to allow contributions by visitors. If you like having your visitors signup for your blog or site but don’t like forcing them to the standard Login Page there is a plugin you can use. The Sidebar Login Plugin by Mike Jolley provides both a sidebar widget and a […]

When designing your website with WordPress there will be times when you need to alter the standard layout to display custom information or provide a specialized look and feel for your site. In Static Website design every page has its own file. You design a single template based on the look that you want to […]

Depending on the type of blog or website that you run with wordpress you may want to include a small picture of the writer within their posts or maybe on an about page. In wordpress to do this the developers at Automatic.com have setup a Avatar Hosting site to allow Authors that post to many […]

Recently we were putting together a demo News site theme so we wanted to populate the site with sample live data from a few news sources. Instead of going through all the hassles we just hit Google News and setup Categories for each of the main News Indexes they sort their news into. We then […]

There are as many reasons as you can think of to add a custom field to your posts. You may want to Display an image for the post on your home or category pages. Add a link on a product page to buy the item with paypal. Add a special coupon ID number for a […]