in the great white north
A number of posts have been popping up around the interwebs criticizing the support, or lack of, in the WordPress Support Forums. I won't link to these posts, not because I don't respect what the writers have to say but rather to avoid any potential flame wars. People who are as passionate about WordPress as I am tend to be quite vocal about it ... Read More »
Of the many cool features incorporated into WordPress one of the coolest has to be the ability to schedule posts for future publishing. This could come in handy if for example you are planning to be away for an extended period of time. You could write several entries beforehand then schedule them to be published at regular intervals in your ... Read More »
A tooltip is a block of information that appears when you hover over a link. It can be used to show extra information about the link a visitor is about to click. While the technique is normally achieved with javascript I'll show you how to do it with nothing but CSS and a little HTML. The first thing we need to do is assign a new class to the link ... Read More »
A question that pops up in the forums from time to time and appeared again just the other day is how do I redirect users to the front page after they log in? In other words the admin didn't want his users being sent to the backend which is the WordPress default behaviour. I'm sure there are several plugins in the official WordPress Plugin ... Read More »
I don't know about anyone else but I really like the redesigned backend of WordPress. I find the current iteration much more functional while the colour scheme is subtle and pleasing. A number of GUIs were looked at before deciding to go with the current one but what of the others that didn't make it? Here is a look at one such mockup created by ... Read More »
Here is a simple and effective way to create a list of your most popular (most commented) posts without using a plugin. First, add the following to your theme's functions.php file ... function most_popular_posts($no_posts = 10, $before = '<li>', $after = '</li>', $show_pass_post = false, $duration='') { global $wpdb; $request = "SELECT ... Read More »
I'm not a fan of widgets. Instead, I prefer hardcoding everything. However I realize many people love them as they make customization as easy as clicking a button. But as is with everything else things can and do go wrong. How many times have you loaded up with widgets then change themes only to find some of them stuck or even inaccessible? This ... Read More »
WordPress uses the template tag wp_list_categories() to output a list of categories on your blog. While it can be used anywhere it most commonly appears in the sidebar. By default, the list will be outputted as a single column. In this post I'll show you how to break the list into two columns. Why do this? For any number of reasons. Perhaps you ... Read More »
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