WordPress Wednesday: @UpdraftPlus March 8th, 2017 @ 7:17 am PST
The most important WordPress plugin
WordPress Wednesday: Thumbnail ALT Tags February 15th, 2017 @ 8:06 am PST
How to grab an image ALT tag from the WordPress Media system
WordPress Wednesday: Grab First Image from Post February 8th, 2017 @ 6:36 am PST
In which I explain how to parse the first image from a post
WordPress Wednesday: Huge Archives February 1st, 2017 @ 8:37 am PST
In which I explain how to beautifully display enormous WordPress archives in a compact format
WordPress Wednesday: Safe Function Calls July 8th, 2009 @ 5:45 am PDT
If you’re editing a WordPress theme template file by adding a call to a plugin’s function, you need to be careful. In six months or a year you’re going to deactivate or delete that plugin, and you’re going to get a big ugly fatal PHP error on your blog. You can avoid it, though, by […]
WordPress Wednesday: Admin Lists July 1st, 2009 @ 5:30 am PDT
Right now I’ve got just under 3,400 posts here on this site. That makes it sort of a pain when I’m browsing through them in the back-end because by default the WordPress engine is set to display lists of posts fifteen at a time. I frequently have twenty or more drafts and / or scheduled […]
WordPress Wednesday: Pithy Quotes Plugin June 24th, 2009 @ 6:15 am PDT
If you look at the top of this page you’ll see that there is a short quip displayed in my header. Every time you visit any page, it changes. I have about fifteen little quotes in my database and they’re set to display randomly with each refresh of the page. I wrote a plugin which […]
WordPress Wednesday: Thesis Theme Tag Text June 17th, 2009 @ 6:45 am PDT
Today I’m going to explain how to make your WordPress blog display a special note based on a tag associated with a post. This tip is uniquely written for users of Chris Pearson’s awesome Thesis Theme, but if you are crafty enough with WordPress, you’ll be able to use it regardless of the theme you’re […]
WordPress Wednesday: Delicious Links April 8th, 2009 @ 10:00 am PDT
Delicious is a social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save, manage and share web pages from a centralized source. With emphasis on the power of the community, Delicious greatly improves how people discover, remember and share on the Internet. Lots of people use Delicious to store bookmarks online, and as a blog publisher […]
WordPress Wednesday: Submit to Facebook April 1st, 2009 @ 9:15 am PDT
I am not a fan of Facebook. I hardly ever visit the place and am usually just annoyed by all the little “applications” that people send me constantly. But … it is a terrific way to get traffic to your site. People on Facebook tend to be the type that just click everything they see. […]
