Wordpress Tips

If you write a lot of posts then your visitors need an easy way to find them. Although we all sort our posts into Categories and add appropriate Tags when we have them it can still be difficult paging through your home or archived pages. On some sites it is reasonable to alter your loop […]

Although at first look your update or new install of WordPress will feel pretty much the same as it has for the past year or so there are a number of updates that will make your life easier and allow WordPress to function better. The first thing that you are likely to notice when you […]

As you will find there are many ways to control which content is displayed on your pages depending on a variety of conditions. By writing php in your theme files you can make use of a number of WordPress’s Conditional Statements to restrict display of menus to your front page by using a call like  […]

When your posts are listed on a index or category page the default setting is to use an excerpt however you can also use the full text of the post which is called the_content.  In either instance more then likely you won’t want to display your entire post if it is over a couple hundred […]

How many times have you been on a website and you wanted to comment on something they are talking about in a WordPress Post? Well if you are like me it is probably a lot and often you want to use an excerpt from the original content on your page to provide context. Well shipped […]

Everyone who uses a sidebar widget or plugin will find the need to style the elements within the item block to match their theme layout and style but many people have problems debuging their elements and applying CSS. This HowTo will hopefully show you methods you can use to make these changes quickly. To get […]

If you are a theme developer it is useful to release some of your work to the public domain to attract users to your advanced themes. Some theme development sites will release a full but encrypted theme where some of the php code has been base64 encoded I strongly suggest that you do not do […]

Believe it or not there are installs of WordPress that are not viewable on the interwebs… and when you run your install behind a corporate or local firewall you may find that WordPress can not access all of its features. The problem is most visible when visiting your dashboard and none of the feeds are […]

The security fixes just keep on coming from the WordPress Team … I guess we should be happy that they actually publish them rather quick but two fixes in as many weeks is going to have a lot of people retrieving patches. The update repairs a problem with the XML-RCP remote publishing features and also […]

WordPress.org has just released a security update available for install through your WordPress dashboard or by downloading and installing the zip file manually. The update is primarily targeted for WordPress sites that allow user signups and the new network features and addresses a problem where specific code can be run to inflate the user rights […]