These days sidebars get so easily cluttered with recent posts, categories and tags, recent comments, top commentators etc. The list is endless. Throw in your blogroll and your sidebar can become longer than the page content!

Moving your blogroll into its own page can keep things neater and allow you to have a longer list that doesn’t clutter up your sidebar. The way to do this is with a page template.

Creating a Page Template

Your theme may or may not have a page.php file already in it. If it does then open…

In conjunction with our new blog design, I am pleased to announce the release of our 3rd wordpress theme (note : our first theme, blue with green, has been removed due to poor quality). The Evolution Wordpress Theme is a clean, dynamic theme which we have released under the Creative Commons License. It was designed by our friends at Design Saurus and is widget and gravatar ready.

The theme has been designed with a blue, red and green color scheme (all you need to do is choose which stylesheet you use…

Brian Gardner recently released a free version of his popular Revolution blog theme. This is a very professional clean looking theme so I’m pleased that Brian has decided to release it. The theme is well commentated so you shouldn’t have many problems modifying it to suit your needs.

He has released 3 versions of the theme :

• 2-Column Version (right sidebar)
• 3-Column Version (left/right sidebar)
• 3-Column Version (two right sidebars)

You can view a demo of each version and download it for free using the link below.

Link : Revolution Blog WordPress Theme

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When new visitors come to your site via an internal page they won’t see the most recent posts you’ve written without having to go to the front page. If there’s nothing to entice them further into the site then they’ll leave just as quick as they came. So you want to put your latest posts in their face pretty much!

In WordPress this is easily done using the get_posts() template tag. The basic usage of this tag is

< ?php
$myposts = get_posts();
foreach ($myposts as $post) : ?>
     <li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><…

New BloggingTips author Sarah recently noticed a major flaw in the popular Show Commentators Plugin for WordPress.

As Sarah explained last month :

To briefly explain, the plugin creates the top commentators list by counting the number of comments made per name which is easily forged, by accident or on purpose. It then links the name using the last URL given on that name’s comment. So all you need is someone to forge someone else’s name and use a different URL and they get a nice little, usually no followed, link from your site.

Thankfully,…

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22 Blogs Every Writer Should Read - BloggingTips isn’t on this list but we won’t hold that againt them A good list of blogs.

Engaging Readers - A great post from Chris Garrett.

and last but not least….

30+ Things That Should Be Changed for WordPress 2.6 - A fantastic list of how wordpress could be upgraded.