When you log in to your WordPress blog you are automatically redirected to the Dashboard area - an area displaying various widgets, each containing useful information such as Right Now, Recent Comments and Incoming Links to name a few. What if you wanted to disable some or all of them? One option is to click the Screen Options button at the top of the page which reveals all available dashboard widgets,... continue reading
As announced back on 04 Nov, we've been running a little contest/promo here at WordPress Canada with the big prize being a free copy of the Flexx Professional theme by iThemes. A big thanks to those you participated but unfortunately, as the saying goes, there can be only one. That being said only one contestant got it right. The rules were quite simple or at least I thought they were. Quoting from... continue reading
A problem I see come up in the WordPress forums quite often is a blogger who is locked out of his own blog. This is usually a result of playing with the values found at Settings > General. See screenshot below. (click to enlarge) Although there are legitimate cases of wanting to change the Blog address (URL), such as when you are planning to give WordPress its own directory, for the vast majority... continue reading
Changing the prefix of your WordPress tables will add an extra layer of security to your site and is not at all difficult to do. Whenever I install WordPress I do so manually via FTP but many users prefer to use an automated script like Fantastico. While convenient, the problem with Fantastico is that it uses the wp_ prefix as a default value - something all of the bad guys know and can attempt to... continue reading
Hardcoding a navigation menu to display a list of pages is not necessary thanks to the wp_list_pages() template tag which automatically generates the list for you. Perusing the Codex we see this template tag accepts numerous parameters to modify the output. A standard use of this tag in a horizontal navigation menu might look like this... <?php wp_list_pages('title_li='); ?> The parameter title_li... continue reading
