Impressed with FriendFeed, and want to do it on your own? You can, with Movable Type and a plugin, and this tutorial will tell you how. Feed your friends, your style.

Have you ever thought of adding multiple languages to your website or have done so using methods such as creating separate directories for a completely new website with only that one language? It is easily possible through PHP.

Want to give Movable Type a shot, now that there’s an open source version and everything? Then this introduction to Movable Type templates is essential, and also a great start for more MT coverage here at Devlounge.

Yahoo Pipes lets you mashup your RSS feeds into one. That can come in handy if you want to display the latest from a bunch of blogs on your own site. This is how you do it, Pipe style.

So, you have finally decided to take the plunge and move from Typepad, a hosted service, to WordPress’ self-hosted solution, but you don’t want to lose your permalinks that everyone has linked to?

See, when you export from Typepad it doesn’t keep your post slugs intact, so WordPress generates some of its own, based on the title of the post. This means the URL you had before is no longer correct. Firstly, Typepad added a .html on all of your post related links. WordPress doesn’t do this by default.

A friend of mine on a forum was curious on how to make the in-text popup advertisements only show up on older posts. Kontera, among others, supply those advertisements that are special links that show a content box when you hover over them. He found it too intrusive for his everyday readers, and so only wanted to show it on posts older than a week.

Want to setup a photo gallery as fast as possible? Then Singapore is the solution for you, a simple PHP script that doesn’t force you to run databases and whatnot. Enter Brian Self, a new Devlounge contributor, and his howto guide to get you started right away.

So today I wanted to take some time to talk about how you can make a WordPress theme more friendly for your clients, friends and general distribution by taking advantage of the template system built in to WordPress.

We are going to start with the header, an often misunderstood part of the WordPress theme.

Want to show a random photo, or maybe randomize several headers to create more action on your blog? It’s easy, with just nine lines of PHP code.

Ever want the ability to log in to your WordPress blog via the blog itself? A simple tip shows you how to move the login form from the login page, right onto your blog.