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WordPress Tip: Group Posts by Date in Listings

If you’re using WordPress, you can group your posts in listings using the_date tag. That’s a great way to put a little emphasis on how often you update, if you’re a frequent updater, and a way to avoid littering your posts listings with the same date over and over again.

Things To Consider When Using WordPress as a CMS

WordPress is a powerful blogging platform, but it can be used as a traditional content management system as well. This article gives tips to what you should consider when building a website powered by WordPress, as well as some hints as to how you can handle various types of content.

CSS: Fun With Floating in the Grid

Thord shares some of his tricks for employing the new Devlounge design, and making it flexible for future additions and changes. Let’s play with CSS floats and the grid.

Getting Gravatars on your Single Posts in WordPress

Do you want to display gravatars on your single posts, just like we do here on Devlounge? Then you need a WordPress blog, access to your single.php file, and this quick tutorial to get it up there.

Spam Protection Solutions for WordPress and Movable Type

Tired of all the spam hitting your blog? Haven’t figured out how to stop it yet? Then this round-up is for you. Implement these plugins, and ease up on your spam management time.

Mashing Up Feeds Using Yahoo Pipes

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.

Controlling Ads in WordPress: Older Posts Only

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.

Using WordPress MU to Power Multiple Blogs

Recently I got the opportunity to give WordPress MU a real spin, using it to power a national blog network. A few weeks in, these are my thoughts on if you really should hold WordPress MU as a serious contender to multiple WordPress installs.

Client Friendly WordPress Themes: Header.php

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.

WordPress Blogs: Changing Hosts the Easy Way

If you’re having doubts about moving to a new host, either for reliability reasons or just because you’ve outgrown your current one, this might help you out. The built in tools in WordPress makes that database hassle a breeze, and here’s how.