In this post, I will share the information to adorns your 404 pages to be visitor friendly by adding features. This feature will change the default look of 404 pages, actually you can put anything in your 404 pages even ads, but I’d rather to add something which have related to my blog like category, popular posts, most commented post and so on.

It seems the latest fad to hit the WordPress scene is adding thumbnails into a blog post. This is fairly easy to do with some knowledge of custom fields, but can be a little complicated if your client is new to WordPress, or blogging. Luckily, WordPress has a solution for us. We are going to use a little something called add_meta_box.

This tutorial will guide you through setting up WPMU on a shared host like godaddy.com. After you set this up properly, you will be able to run unlimited websites on your host, each with a different domain name and website theme. This will save you money because you can use the cheapest hosting, which usually does not allow for parking domains into separate folders.

The biggest culprit for duplicate internal content is your archives page, which is usually used for categories and monthly archives. Unless you only display partial posts in your archives, you’ll want to make sure Google doesn’t index it. If you aren’t handy with Robots.txt, you can instead use this code to easily tell Google not to index your archive.php page.

Recently, someone asked me how to set up a local Wamp server on their computer so they can test Wordpress sites locally before uploading and editing online. MakeUseOf nicely explained what a Wamp server is and how to set it up. I wanted to expand their explanation to include setting up Wordpress.

Making it easy to submit content to WPscoop is a process we feel should be a simple affair and be carried out with as few actions as possible. With this in mind we have recently updated our Browser Bookmark Submission Tool to insert the URL, Title and a Selected description of the content you are submitting automatically into the WPscoop Submit form. Continue reading for a short tutorial.

Thanks to Otto for this great post on the heads up on the new comment system for WordPress 2.7. After I read this I decided to get ahead of the curve and switch my Techozoic theme over to the new threaded commenting. I decided to take it a little further and separate pings and trackbacks from regular comments.

Following are excerpts, notes, and links for my presentation at WordCamp Portland 2008 titled ‘Design & Debug Themes Using Free Tools. I create a lot of sites using WordPress as a content management system, and there are several free tools that I use daily that make designing and troubleshooting WordPress themes much easier.

I’m going to show you how to create a wordpress theme from scratch in these 3 parts of tutorial series. I will cover from Structuring, designing in Photoshop, slicing, coding into fully css based html, and finally wordpress implementation.

Most WordPress themes already have archives.php template file in your theme’s folder. In this episode of WordPress series we are presenting some basic and advanced techniques to create a more user-friendly and more appealing archives page.