Wordpress
WordPress: Advanced Comment Customization
Thursday, August 27th, 2009
Comments are an important part of a WordPress run site. It not only allows your visitors to chime in on your rantings, but it elevates the interactivity of your website, and helps keep visitors coming back. It’s unfortunate that there really isn’t much built in customization when it comes to comments. WordPress by default allows [...]
Advanced Post2Post Links
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Linking from one blog post to the next can be frustrating, especially if you decided later down the road to change your permalinks. Instead of having to deal with that, you can use a plugin to do so. There are a few plugins out there, but they require you to know the post id and [...]
WordPress Plugin: Post/Page Headers
Monday, August 3rd, 2009
Post/Page Headers is a simple WordPress plugin that lets you add Stylesheet and JavaScript files (CSS & JS) to your posts and pages. After being frustrated about having to add styles to my theme’s CSS file everytime I wanted to add a new div or span style to a post, I decided to write this [...]
Use WordPress for your Portfolio
Friday, July 31st, 2009
WordPress is a powerful blogging platform, that gives anyone the ability to run and manage a website. But WordPress is not just limited to blogging. At it’s core, WordPress is a Content Management System (CMS), and as such, can be used for any type of website. Many people are using WordPress as a base for [...]
WordPress Plugin: Category Templates
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
NOTICE: Support for this plugin has been stopped indefinitely. I simply don’t have the time to devote to working on updates and bug fixes. If you’re interested in adopting this plugin to continue development/support, contact me. Category Templates is a WordPress plugin that lets you define different templates for both categories and individual posts through [...]
WordPress Descendant of Category
Friday, July 17th, 2009
WordPress’s default category structure is nice, but it lacks one major function: descendant category detection. The normal WordPress function in_category() only returns true if the current post is in the specified category, not if it’s a descendant. This can be especially frustrating when creating different templates for different categories. You don’t want to have to [...]