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How to: Get a particular header, footer, or sidebar

SunSeth — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:56:54 +0000

Since WordPress 2.7, it is easier to choose which header, footer or sidebar file you want to include on your theme. In this recipe, I’ll show you how to do.

48 Unique Ways To Use WordPress

SunSeth — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:47:53 +0000

WordPress, one of the most popular blogging platforms (if not the most), is capable of being more than just a blog platform. It's capable of being a full-blown CMS (Content Management System). As someone who has both written small, custom CMSes from scratch as well as evaluated million-dollar professional CMSes for large corporations, WordPress' robustness never ceases to amaze me.

20 Resources to Get You Started with WordPress from Scratch

SunSeth — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:46:02 +0000

WordPress is a popular, well documented Content Management System. Today we’ll review 20 resources to get you started with WordPress. Though it was originally intended to be primarly for blogging, it can be used for other things too - like creating porfolios, galleries and etc.

oMagazine Free Wordpress Theme

DFalcon — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:54:05 +0000

This is a very beautiful,lovely and elegant WordPress theme,3 columns,support Gravatar(48px),ads ready(banner,sidebar,and single post),widgets,support thumbnails of posts.

ClearPress Free WordPress Theme

DFalcon — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:51:20 +0000

To mark the beginning of year 2009, I am releasing a bright & colorful free WordPress theme - ClearPress. This is a unique WordPress theme which you will not find anywhere on the Internet. The unique feature about this theme is that it divides the blog posts into three separate columns.

Prioritizing Features for WordPress 2.8

Stuart — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:10:57 +0000

Everyone knows by now that WordPress 2.7 is packed with new features. Now that it’s available (almost 600,000 downloads as I write this!), it’s time to start working on 2.8. There were dozens of things that got tabled during 2.7 due to time constraints, and there are a lot of high-rated features in the Ideas forum, so there are a lot of potential features under consideration.

Grey Tutu Free Wordpress Theme

Stuart — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:09:48 +0000

3 columns, black, gray, yellow and blue colors, widgets ready, Search box in header, places for ads in header and sidebar (!ads02.gif in footer.php and !ads01.gif in header.php), free Wordpress theme with right sidebars

Gamezine - Free Wordpress Themes for Gamers

Stuart — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:06:29 +0000

Gamezine is the latest free magazine wordpress theme for gamers, from jinsona designs. The theme has a dark grunge design with a fixed with 3 column layout. The theme is perfectly suitable for gamers and with some modification it will fit into any niche. The list of features include Magazine theme layout, with dark and grunge style. Multi-level drop-down javascript navigation menu.

Category Trick for WP 2.7 WordPress Tutorial

Stuart — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:00:23 +0000

Styling posts differently according to its category has been possible in the past with WordPress, in fact, I wrote an article several months ago called Enhanced Sidebars with Dynamic Content. That post showed one approach using conditional statements in PHP to enhance the sidebar. With WordPress 2.7 it’s now possible to achieve a similar end result just by using CSS.

Setup a development version of WordPress

Stuart — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:58:41 +0000

Being a WordPress user, there’re certainly times when you want to try something new with your blog - a new plugin, some hacks and tweaks, some theme fine-tunes etc. It may not be a big deal if your blog is new and has a limited userbase, but if you’re maintaining a big blog, then every little modification puts you in risk.

Make an Apple.com Style Breadcrumb for Your WordPress Blog

Stuart — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:56:50 +0000

Breadcrumbs, as has been said before on WPHacks, are very useful, both for your SEO and reader’s navigation. In other words, there is no reason why you shouldn’t have them on your site. There are a number of breadcrumb plugins you could use, but with a bit of Wordpress code, you can avoid this. If you use sub-categories, then this will only display the name of the sub category.

Open every external link in new window

fluxpattern — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:24:35 +0000

Wordpress coding is a fun sometimes. Yesterday I was trying to mess with Wordpress hooks and then I write a little code to open every external link to a new window so i can keep my visitors on my own site while they can still visit the external websites.

How To Create A Featured Post Section In WP And Get Pagination To Work

fluxpattern — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:14:58 +0000

One of the things I get asked a lot is how to get pagination working when you have a ‘featured post‘ section on the homepage. You know, many of the ‘premium‘ WordPress themes out there have this featured post box on the homepage, sorta like a sticky post that stays there till you replace it with another featured post.

How to Use Wordpress as a Membership Directory

fluxpattern — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:08:42 +0000

Do you want to create a moderated membership directory that showcases your member’s information? Do you want it to be flexible, be very little work after initial setup, and use a world-class open source platform that you are already familiar with?

Tweet Comments Twitter Wordpress Plugin

Stuart — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:17:48 +0000

Tweet Comments is a “Plug In” for Wordpress that gives the reader the ability to tweet the fact that they commented on your post.

Installing/Updating WordPress with Subversion

Stuart — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:16:30 +0000

If you have command-line access to your web server, and if your server has a Subversion (svn) client installed, you can use Subversion to install and update WordPress. Although SubVersion is mostly a software developers' tool, non-developers can also use it to install and upgrade WordPress.

Wordpress 2.7 Permalink Issue and Fix

Stuart — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:14:55 +0000

The new Wordpress has a big issue with permalinks after you upgrade if your server isn't setup the way the script files are needed.

Exporting and Importing WordPress Posts is Easy, with WordPress 2.7

Stuart — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:13:02 +0000

I’ve just tried a full cycle of WordPress 2.7 exporting and importing features, and I must say, it’s COOL! As easy as snapping your fingers (snapping fingers is not something everyone can do though :p).

Two new bbPress releases for January 2009

Stuart — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:10:32 +0000

Today we are releasing a new version of both bbPress 0.9 and bbPress 1.0-alpha. The 0.9.0.4 stable release includes a security fix to stop a potential XSS attack on login pages with Internet Explorer 6, so it is highly recommended for all users. Additionally, the 0.9.0.4 release includes a significant MySQL speed-up fix for front pages and forum pages that was discussed in the forums.

Place Dynamic Amazon widgets in Wordpress

Stuart — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:09:26 +0000

How to put Recommended Product Links widgets from Amazon in sidebar of Wordpress and products in widgets change automatic by current product reviewed