![Creating a Print Stylesheet for Your WordPress Website]()
By Ryan
One detail often overlooked by WordPress theme creators and the bloggers who use them is the value of the print stylesheet. The importance of the screen stylesheet (the CSS included with every WordPress theme) is not even up for discussion: it’s necessary. I would like to see the print stylesheet go that direction as well.
What [...]
![iWPhone - WordPress for the iPhone]()
By Ryan
Just caught wind of this—a WordPress Plugin and theme to optimize the content of your blog for the iPhone. Do Apple lovers work quickly or what? If you have any interest in your blog being very accessible on the iPhone, give this one a shot.
Link via TechDeep
![Transition from Blogger to Wordpress: From Static to Dynamic Pages]()
By Ryan
Caught a great tip from a new blog on my list the other day: Zo’C. The post I’m referring to is called Managing Obsolete Pages With One Line of Code. It’s all about how to fix your blog if you switch from Blogger to Wordpress and need to move from the static Blogger .html pages [...]
![3 Ways to Improve the Comment Styles on Your Blog (With Examples)]()
By Ryan
The comments section is always one of the last elements of a website that I design, and I always regret waiting to design it. The comments are extremely important on your website: the comments are where you are inviting your visitors to join in on the discussion. The last thing you want them to think [...]
![Why Wordpress Theme Viewer Stinks, and What Should be Done About It]()
By Ryan
Anyone who has uploaded a theme themselves or browsed through the theme viewer to any great degree is sure to have had a number of complaints with the service. Granted it is a service, and a great one at that. But there is still a lot that could be improved upon.
My Complaints
No tagging leaves for [...]
![The First Changes To Make To Your Wordpress Install]()
By Ryan
Wordpress is amazing. (Of course I would say that.) But there are a few modifications worth making to your Wordpress install, right out of the box.
Adjust the archive.php and searchresults.php
More for those wanting to make their own theme. Remember that the default setting of Wordpress sets up certain pages with completely different (neutered, in my [...]
![Google Adsense Preview, Tool for Webmasters]()
By Ryan
Google Adsense Sandbox, an Adsense preview tool by labnol.org, is a way to see what Google ads and affiliate ads will pop up depending on the keywords/url submitted.
I can see this being used to test out different possible ad setups before locking yourself into an ad setup. Seems as though Google should offer something of [...]
![How to Take Full Advantage of Your Post Timestamp in Wordpress]()
By Ryan
In Wordpress you can set the date for something into the future—think of it as a dorky sort of time travel—so that you can write (if you wanted to) weeks worth of posts in an afternoon. Wordpress will “update” your blog by posting your content at the time you specify each day.
Here’s how to do [...]
![How to Find Your Wordpress.com API Code]()
By Ryan
The famed Wordpress API code is their way of validating your copy of Wordpress so that you can use additions and features for the Wordpress platform. Think of it as your password. Don’t give it to anyone.
But more importantly: how do you find it? Follow these steps.
Note: For an official description, see the Wordpress API [...]
![Bathrooms and Using Wordpress Consistently]()
By Ryan
I was in a bathroom just today and experienced an amusing situation. The soap dispenser was automatic. So instead of pressing the front tab (as we’ve been trained to do for years) I wave my hand around in the air and it shoots soap at me. So be it. What’s interesting is that nothing else [...]
