Last year Leland of ThemeLab posted a tutorial on building a personal tweet archive powered by WordPress. He even went so far as to create a theme for use with this archive which was released free of charge. The idea intrigued me and so off I went to build my own archive. Following Leland's instructions I had the site up and running in less than ... Read More »

One of the new security features introduced in WordPress 3.0 is the ability to select a unique name for the admin during the install process. In previous versions you only had the ability to choose a password but were stuck with the default login name of admin. While this is a welcome change it does have a problem. Take a look at the screenshot ... Read More »

In a post from 3 years ago I explained how to achieve "clean" permalinks for search results. (see Clean Permalinks for Search Results) While the method I detailed works quite well I stumbled upon what I think is an even better way to go about it. All that is required is a few lines of code in your theme's functions.php file. Thanks to Bavota ... Read More »

We all know that WordPress has a capability called pagination which can be applied to various pages such as your blog page, category pages, archive pages etc. Did you know that you can add pagination to a single post? This comes in handy if you have a large article, such as a tutorial, that you want to break up into smaller segments. Simply add ... Read More »

Have you ever wondered how to import or export your blogroll links? Actually WordPress has this functionality built in but the feature is not perfect and is somewhat obscure. Using WordPress Native Functionality If you navigate to Tools > Import you will see the following screen ... (click to enlarge) Referencing the image above ... Read More »

Back in January I wrote about a couple of plugins that really simplified the task of writing code in blog posts. (See Writing Code in Posts Made Easy) To quickly recap, if you tend to post a lot of code in your posts you already know the problem of having your code snippets look like code snippets rather than behave like code snippets. For ... Read More »

This is Part 2 of a 2 part tutorial. In Part 1 of this tutorial we showed you how to install XAMPP on your PC. In this tutorial we'll show you how to get WordPress up and running. First off, head over to WordPress.org and download the latest ZIP which is 3.0.4 at the time of this writing. After you have saved it somewhere on your hard drive ... Read More »