By Ryan
Chris Pearson has put together a nice tutorial all about creating a user-functions.php file in your WordPress installation.
Do you enjoy your widget-ized sidebars? Then you have functions.php to thank. Theme developers can also use functions.php to add extra functionality to their themes. Just recently I customized a functions.php file in order to enable a theme [...]
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By Ryan
September 28, 2007 – 4:41 pm
It’s been almost a week since WordPress 2.3 was released. Technically a work week, but you get the idea. Here’s a recap of the coverage so far at Theme Playground, as well as some more links of interest I’ve stumbled over in the past couple of days.
If you have any WordPress 2.3 links I haven’t [...]
![Smashing Magazine on WordPress SEO]()
By Ryan
August 22, 2007 – 10:42 am
Yesterday Smashing Magazine posted a nice piece on optimizing your WordPress site for search engines. It has some helpful tips, although I don’t agree that WordPress is poorly set up for search engines in the first place. If you know what you need to do, it’s perfectly set up. Just because it doesn’t hand it [...]
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By Ryan
August 22, 2007 – 8:39 am
If you enjoy Theme Playground, you may well enjoy WPDesigner, a site I’ve just caught wind of that does a lot of what I do here.
![BlueJar on Buying a WordPress Theme]()
By Ryan
If you get a chance, head on over to BlueJar and read a new post entitled How to Buy a WordPress Theme. It has some interesting points that shouldn’t be forgotten when looking into spending some bucks on a theme, particularly how to make sure you only purchase a great theme.
Probably the most valuable part [...]
![Blog Project Three: My Picks]()
By Ryan
A week or so ago I participated in a blogging project through Daily Blog Tips called Blog Project Three. The results of the contest can be seen at the final list at DBT, where over one hundred entries were submitted. Not too shabby!
Part of the contest involved choosing your favorites from the final list. [...]
![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 [...]
