Code • Tuesday August 26, 2008 by Thord Daniel Hedengren with 2 comments
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.
Publishing • Wednesday July 30, 2008 by Thord Daniel Hedengren with 106 comments
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.
Code • Wednesday June 25, 2008 by Thord Daniel Hedengren with 18 comments
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.
Code • Thursday June 12, 2008 by Thord Daniel Hedengren with 3 comments
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.
Publishing • Friday May 30, 2008 by Thord Daniel Hedengren with 5 comments
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.
Code • Wednesday March 26, 2008 by Thord Daniel Hedengren with 12 comments
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.
Code • Tuesday February 5, 2008 by davidcubed with 4 comments
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.
Publishing • Thursday December 13, 2007 by Thord Daniel Hedengren with 30 comments
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.
Code • Monday December 10, 2007 by davidcubed with 12 comments
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.
Publishing • Thursday November 29, 2007 by Steven Snell with 6 comments
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.