One of the reasons I like to help out in the WordPress Support Forum is it gives me yet something else to blog about. A recent poster asked if it was possible to apply a different style to categories. The answer is yes. Back on 09 April 2008 I showed you how to create a page with a unique style. (see Create Pages With ... Read More »

A visitor to the forums today asked how to add a pullquote to his blog. If you recall, I explained how to do this back in April in a post titled Using Pullquotes Part Two. In that post I showed you not only how to do it but how to do it easily by adding a new quicktag to your post toolbar. This is a mod I use in my own ... Read More »

So you'd like to try the full version of WordPress but don't want to commit to paying hosting fees until you've actually gotten your hands dirty. Why not install WordPress on your computer? There are several reasons you might want to do this aside from the aforementioned such as maintaining a fully functional backup of ... Read More »

A recent visitor to the WordPress Support Forum asked if is possible to increase the length of excerpts when using the the_excerpt tag. Yes it is. The default value is set to 55. The file that controls this is located at wp-includes/formatting.php. Look for excerpt_length and adjust accordingly. Having said that ... Read More »

Back in April I showed you how to add a custom loop to your sidebar for displaying the latest posts from a given category using the query_posts function. (see Custom Loop in Sidebar) Here's a little variation that will display a random post on a page using that very same query_posts function. Why do this? It's a great ... Read More »