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WordPress Coding & Design With no doubt WordPress is the biggest, best and most popular blogging platform around. Top blogs (BloggingTips too!) use WordPress as the core of their publishing platform, because WordPress offers what other blogging platforms don’t: flexibility. WordPress’s powerful engine allows you to run a simple personal weblog, or even build a fully custom framework to run your website on. Lets not forget about the hundreds of thousands ...
Continue readingWordPress 3.1 “Reinhardt” Released, New Feautres Added
WordPress, WordPress Coding & Design For WordPress users all over the world, today has been a pretty busy day as yesterday saw the release of the much-anticipated WordPress 3.1 of the popular blogging platform. Codenamed “Reinhardt” after the famous jazz musician Django Reinhardt, the new version not only adds a slew of new features to WordPress but also improves security and usability. But unlike security updates, which should always be applied as soon as practical, ...
Continue readingCapsis Media Designs Custom Websites
Design & Coding, Reviews, WordPress, WordPress Coding & Design, WordPress Themes It doesn’t really matter how good your website content is if no one wants to look at your website in the first place. Part of this has to do with efforts like search engine optimization, but the aesthetic appeal of your website is also very important, not only for user experience but also for branding. Rather than use any number of freely available templates that will make your site look like everyone else’s, it may be worth ...
Continue readingHostGator and Fantastico Make WordPress Easy
Domain Names & Hosting, WordPress, WordPress Coding & Design You hear all kinds of excuses to why someone wont’ get into blogging. Some people say that they have nothing interesting to say. Others say that they don’t have the time. Others still say that they are intimidated by the terminology and technology. Let’s face it. Most of us aren’t coding experts and, for some, even the “simple” installation of WordPress can be quite daunting. Thankfully, there are services out ...
Continue readingAutomated WordPress Sites with Page.ly
Domain Names & Hosting, WordPress Coding & Design, WordPress Themes Setting up your own website doesn’t have to be an overly complicated and frustrating experience. Even if you don’t know PHP from CSS, even if you don’t have the faintest idea of why your blog needs a database, let alone knowing how you’d make one, that should not stop you from having a proper presence on the web. For some people, the standard WordPress installation is a relatively straightforward process, but that’s ...
Continue readingHow to stop the blank page after leaving a comment in WordPress?
WordPress Coding & Design After resolving the scheduling bug in WordPress 2.9, I noticed that I was getting sent to a blank page after leaving a comment here. The comment would post but you had to hit the back button and then reload to find this out. I tried a few things the other day but put it to the back of my head until Rob Starr reminded me about the problem tonight. Here’s the problem. After leaving a comment you are sent to ...
Continue readingWordPress 2.8 Features
WordPress Coding & Design WordPress 2.8 has now been released and as always, it’s a great improvement on the previous version. I’ve been using it on a couple of sites and so far the biggest improvement has been the theme editor with its colour coding and line numbering. There are a few other good looking features, the widget interface has improved greatly and you can now arrange your dashboard into four columns. Under your General settings you can change your ...
Continue readingCreate Your Own WordPress Widget
WordPress Coding & Design Widgets make your life easier with sorting out your sidebar in WordPress, however sometimes there’s information or perhaps an external source/item that you want to turn into a widget but just don’t know how. To create a very basic widget it’s quite simple. We just need to add a function into our functions.php theme file which outputs the content, and then register it as a sidebar widget. Sounds easy? It is So, let’s use ...
Continue readingRevisiting WordPress Custom Fields
WordPress Coding & Design A few months ago I wrote about Custom Fields in WordPress. At the time I just gave a small example of how these could be used, and a couple of people still didn’t grasp the point of them so I’m going to give a few more examples of using them which will hopefully shed some light on how useful they actually are! For the basics of using the custom fields in the admin then please read the custom fields post first. Below are just working ...
Continue readingGet your latest tweets on your blog – Plugin free
WordPress Coding & Design There are a lot of plugins for WordPress that deal with Twitter. It can be hard to find the right one when you have a specific feature in mind. Although there are some really useful ones, sometimes a plugin is not always the answer. If you want to add your latest tweets to your blog but you don’t have the resources for another plugin, or you just like doing things by hand, here is some code you can use to add your latest tweets from ...
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