A great little tutorial went up recently by Charity at Design Adaptations, all about how to feature a post without it repeating in your main entries list. Great stuff. I also believe Charity’s new design may be up for review soon…
A recent project brought me to search for a fresh, clean, exportable online calendar system. The project was for a church site, and the church site was (of course) built on WordPress. Here’s a look at the process I used (thought it’s probably not the only way) to bring live data into WordPress from a [...]
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 [...]
Nobody wants to seem like that guy. I mean, look at him. Sand is messy.
The buzz over the last few days has been somewhat predictable. The talk has been mostly about the new tagging features added to version 2.3 and the update notifications for WordPress and Plugins. Now these are all well and good additions [...]
Theme Playground is now fully upgraded to WordPress 2.3, and aside from an adjustment or two to this theme everything went smoothly. It feels like about time I looked into adding some tags to the site. So, using some examples here at Theme Playground I’d like to look at some possible uses for tagging as [...]
If WordPress sidebars weren’t tempting before widgets, it shouldn’t be surprising how nuts some users go when adding to their sidebar is as easy as dragging and dropping. But, to quote a classic line, with great power comes great responsibility. In other words, there are some things you should keep in mind when stocking your [...]
One of the best and most widely used WordPress Plugins on blogs is the Related Posts Plugin. I can think of plenty of big name sites that use some rendition of it, if not this very plugin (Daily Blog Tips and Problogger, for example). But even more than using this plugin is using it well. [...]
WordPress comes with an easy to use (and find) RSS feed location. It’s sort of a staple for a blog nowadays, so it isn’t all that commendable that a blogging platform uses it. The only disappointing thing about the default WordPress feed is you can’t really find out much about who is subscribing to your [...]
One of the latest additions to recent versions of WordPress is the ability to choose which page you want your posts to show up on, as well as which page you want to be your home page; and you can do it from the Options panel quickly and easily.
Navigate on your Dashboard to the Options [...]
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.
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My name is Ryan, and I am a freelance web developer. Turns out I also enjoy blogging. Read more.
