Tips & Tricks

How to: Open external links in a new window

Over the weekend, I attended WordCamp Denver, and I was asked by John Hawkins how to force links to open…

3 days ago

Fixing plugins not compatible with hybrid 0.4.2

Hey everyone, as you may have noticed I have a running on the site. While everything almost everything moved over…

4 days ago

Add the twittar plugin for WordPress w/ comment threading

I talked about the Twittar plugin in a previous post. But learned that the read me text file was only…

1 week ago

Styling your ordered & unordered list items into 2 columns

In a previous post I showed you how to create a custom widget, then I showed you how to create…

2 weeks ago

Jon Asked: How to add thumbnails above post on the THiCK theme

I was asked by a reader: I'm using the THiCK theme for my new design blog. I noticed you were…

2 weeks ago

How to: Add any authors gravatar to their post

This is an easy one, just add one line to your single.php file where you would like the Gravatar to…

3 weeks ago

How to: Show what a user is searching for in the title

Want to show what any user was searching for? It is simple, just add this line where your title would…

3 weeks ago

Build a classic MyBlogLog widget

In this post I will show you how I created my custom widget showcasing mybloglog readers. In your function.php file…

4 weeks ago

Limit the characters that display on the_title

Ever wanted to display the title of a post somewhere but limit the amount of characters that are shown? For…

1 month ago

Display custom url if comment authors url is blank

Here is a nifty trick for your comments.php template. If someone comes to your site and leaves a comment but…

1 month ago

Disable caching of your site or post

I talked about Disabling search engine on search pages in a previous post using the meta tag. Today lets go…

2 months ago

Show the password on post excerpts

Justin Tadlock has written a nice tutorial on how to show a password form field instead of the default text…

4 months ago

Remove spaces when echoing the_title

Ever wanted to print or echo the WordPress title attribute without spaces?

5 months ago

Add a shortcode

This is a simple one. /** * Your Blog title * */ function my_blog_title() { $blogname = get_bloginfo('name'); return '<span…

5 months ago