Mastering WordPress Shortcodes
Shortcodes are a nice way of doing complex things within a post, without having to push PHP code through ExecPHP or one of those other plugins. Many plugins already make use of short codes allowing you...
View ArticleTop 50 WordPress Tutorials
NetTuts has put up a list post of fifty of what they consider the top WordPress tutorials. It includes some very helpful posts, including a few from their own blog that are definitely worth reading. I...
View ArticleFreelancing with WordPress – WPCandy
The past few days, WPCandy.com has been running some great articles about using WordPress for freelancing. From dealing with project management, to managing contacts, to setting up a portfolio, and (as...
View ArticleDisplay Upcoming Entries In Your Post With A WordPress Shortcode
Since some days several contacts have been considering the option to display upcoming posts on their site. WordPress offers a really simple solution for this in the form of the attribute post_status....
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Publish Your Blog In Multiple Languages With WPML Plugin For WordPress
Many people want to publish their blog in different languages or offer translations to their readers. Often a translation plugin is used offering automated translation via Google Translate or...
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Tutorial: How To Merge 2 WordPress Blogs
For a project I am involved with we recently considered merging 2 rather large WordPress blogs. These were 2 blogs with several thousands entries and posts and at least 20 authors have written on those...
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How To: Display Your WordPress Category List in Multiple Columns
Do you sometimes get that feeling to go all overboard and do things differently with your design? OK, I might not be the most creative person with visual designs, actually I like simplicity, but the...
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Optimise Your WordPress Themes With Better Author Pages
Recently Ajay D’Souza asked how we made our author archive pages here on BloggingPro. I personally am a big fan of displaying content differently on different sections of blogs and also think that...
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Custom Post Types Sources You Should Know About
By now you should be aware that WordPress 3.0 comes shipped with Custom Post Types. It’s a feature that may not be easy to grasp at first, but it holds almost infinite power over what you can do with...
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How To Add Support For Menus In Your WordPress Theme
Are you running WordPress 3.0 yet? If so, you might have come across a nifty little addition called Menus. You’ll find it on your admin Dashboard in the Appearances section, and here’s a little...
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How To Create A Cool “Bubble Up” Effect For Your Blog’s Icons Using CSS
A few years ago, the bubble effect that I’m about to show you to create could only be executed using flash animation but thanks to some CSS innovation, the limitations and boundaries to simple yet...
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How To Easily Edit Your WordPress Theme Design With The Firebug Firefox Addon
As bloggers, we aim to provide unique user experiences for all our visitors online through the use of the best blog designs and templates we can find. Although there are thousands of free and premium...
View ArticleCorrect Coding for WP Sidebars
Great entry by Justin Tadlock, of Hybrid Theme fame, on the correct way to integrate sidebar into WordPress themes. Also contains a very detailed explanation of the term sidebar and its possible uses...
View ArticleRetrieve Your Twitter Followers Number Without API Issues
In this WPShout entry Angela Giese provides the code to use and retrieve the number of your Twitter followers without being hit by the Twitter API restrictions, which popular bloggers can suffer from....
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WordPress 3.1 Post Formats Guide
Lisa E. Sabin Wilson takes a look at the with WordPress 3.1 Beta introduced Post Formats in an extensive tutorial. In the post Lisa, from WordPress for Dummies fame, provides examples and the code to...
View ArticleHow to: WordPress to Jekyll
Paul Stamatiou has switched his site from WordPress to Jekyll. In this extensive review he features a step-by-step how to switch from WordPress to Jekyll, a new static generator. Paul mentions also...
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Tutorial: Show All WordPress Image Sizes
Justin Tadlock, of Theme Hybrid fame, has published a new entry describing how to display links to all images sizes within WordPress (or on your attachment pages). The attachment page often is a...
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How to Move From WordPress.com to WordPress.org
WordPress.com is a hosted service, which allows you to set up multiple blogs for free, however there are optional paid options which add functionality to your blog. WordPress.com is perfect for a...
View ArticleCreating a Shared Content Box Across All of Your WordPress Blogs
More than five years ago, I was bit by the Autoblog bug. I don’t build them anymore, but I still build WordPress blogs in large numbers. One of my pet peeves when I was working with 100+ different...
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How to Add a Floating Sticky Sidebar to WordPress & Boost Conversions...
With readers growing blind to banner ads and attention spans decreasing, we need new ways to increase readership and garner more clickthroughs. Sticky elements that hover, float, slide and pop out at...
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