WordPress

Resetting and Rebuilding WP Themes CSS and Defining Layouts

June 25, 2011

To undertake the task of building a WordPress theme with the help of CSS, we’re going to need the following things: 1. A style sheet that resets default CSS across all web browsers and makes a sane standard we can work from. 2. Another style sheet that rebuilds our typographical foundations in a smart way. [...]

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Customizing WordPress Theme Sidebar

June 23, 2011

With a WordPress Sidebar Template, we need to make sure it’s “widgetized”. In this tutorial, we would use 2 widget areas, since with it the code can be used with both 2 and 3 column themes. The widget areas would be registered in the functions.php code as follows: function theme_widgets_init() { register_sidebar( array { ‘name’ [...]

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WordPress Customized Theme: Template and Directory Structure

June 22, 2011

In the previous article, we discussed the HTML structure of a customized theme for WordPress. In this post, we would discuss the template and directory structure for the customized themes. Three main files that we would manipulate during this tutorial are index.php, header.php and footer.php. index.php and all it’s related files make the web pages [...]

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Customized WordPress Theme HTML Structure – I

June 18, 2011

WordPress provides quite a limited number of themes so it’s sometimes required to design a custom theme. We would specifically deal with the HTML structure of the custom WordPress theme. When coding a web site you should have 2 goals in mind: lean code and meaningful code. That is, using as little markup (HTML tags) [...]

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Custom Management of WordPress RSS Feed

May 27, 2011

WordPress custom fields can be used to modify the RSS content of the blog or website after which you can have an option to add a specific content just for your RSS readers in a specific post. Firstly, an example would demonstrate the usage of custom field to display specific text/object in your WordPress RSS [...]

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WordPress Custom Fields

May 26, 2011

Introducing custom fields in wordpress basically means to add other data in WordPress and display them at the desired location beside the text. In fact this custom field can be associated with a script and so allow to develop an automated display. The definition of the field is similar to that of a category, it [...]

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Integrating Flickr into WordPress.com free blogs

April 7, 2011

A common problem that a wordpress.com blogger encounters is of integrating Flickr photostream with the blog posts, since wordpress.com is quite strict in allowing external integrations on blogs. For the same reason, plugins for free blogs are not available for this purpose. Broadly speaking, there are two easiest methods to integrate your flickr photo-sets into [...]

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Setup your WordPress to allow guests to create a blog post on your blog

January 2, 2011

In this post, I will create a detailed tutorial on how to setup your WordPress to allow guests to create a blog post on your WordPress blog. You can off course choose to have the posts go in pending or published mode. Assuming you have a WordPress site live and you have the Exec-PHP Plugin [...]

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Update WP Post Date only using php

October 31, 2010

Normally you can update any post’s date using the Editor window. For example, if you choose a future date and then publish that post, WordPress will automatically set it to Scheduled status. Ever wondered how you can do it using a php code? Here is a short snippet.

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How to get the single latest post with comments on homepage in wordpress

August 9, 2010

It is very common and easy to setup your wordpress site’s homepage with the latest post including comments on home page of your website. Here is how you can do it. No matter which wordpress theme you are using. All themes usually have single.php file in there. Simply copy the file and rename it to [...]

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