Blogging Tips

How to stop the blank page after leaving a comment in WordPress?

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 …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on January 5th, 2010 and filed under WordPress Coding & Design
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WordPress 2.8 Features

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 …

Written by Sarah from Stuff By Sarah
Posted on June 18th, 2009 and filed under WordPress Coding & Design
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Create Your Own WordPress Widget

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 …

Written by Sarah from Stuff By Sarah
Posted on June 4th, 2009 and filed under WordPress Coding & Design
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Revisiting WordPress Custom Fields

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 …

Written by Sarah from Stuff By Sarah
Posted on May 28th, 2009 and filed under WordPress Coding & Design
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Get your latest tweets on your blog – Plugin free

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 …

Written by Ryan Edmunds from CrunchPlay.com
Posted on May 22nd, 2009 and filed under WordPress Coding & Design
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Wordpress Theme Inheritance

The WordPress template system has a relatively unused gem in the template system, Theme Inheritance. Theme Inheritance allows you to set your theme to inherit files from a parent theme, meaning you could create your theme in the colours you choose, but then you can create a number of new themes with just a stylesheet in them, and set each stylesheet to inherit from the main theme, and then just override the …

Written by Sarah from Stuff By Sarah
Posted on May 21st, 2009 and filed under WordPress Coding & Design
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Adding custom icons to your WordPress theme

If you are using a WP framework it is quite simple to modify the background images and icons set up with the theme. Some of the more powerful themes even allow you to upload new images from right inside the admin area.  However, if you’re using something a little simpler, most of the time you have to go in and manually add images to your theme the old fashioned way. If …

Written by Ryan Edmunds from CrunchPlay.com
Posted on May 20th, 2009 and filed under WordPress Coding & Design
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