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Do you do WordPress themes? if so, this might be useful. The WordPress Helper Sheet is a text file with the most common template tags for WordPress themes, designed to make the job of porting designs to WordPress much easier. Great idea, though it’s missing allot of the more basic stuff for the header and [...]

Most of the basic shared hosting plans will only allow you to use 1 domain name and a limited number of databases. So what do you do if you want to set up more then one WordPress powered site on your hosting plan? Here’s a solution. Most hosts will allow you to ‘park’ or ‘forward’ [...]

I just finished updating all my public WordPress themes I Fixed all the errors, browser bugs and display issues, plus, I widgetized them all, so they now work with the widgets plugin. Sadly enough, I had to remove the amazing Nautica 2.2 theme, because of copyright issues with the original html theme, hopefully it wil [...]

This is weird, but here it goes: I’ve noticed that every time a blogger doesn’t have anything to post, or is too busy to post, they leave this everything-but-nothing/to-busy-to-post message. A wordpress plugin that would kick in and do the job if the blog was not updated in a a few days, with one of [...]

I’ve been asked about this a few times lately, I know there’s a plugin that does this, but this is the most simple way, by far. Duplicate the page.php file of your theme and name it home.php Right before the line that starts with “< ?php if (have_posts())...", add this line: "< ?php query_posts('pagename=home'); ?>“ [...]

Here is my To-Do list for WPPA. I don’t know whn I’ll get a chance to do it, but hopefully soon enough. Make it a full WP plugin. Add previus and next page links on the single pages Create default CSS styles Use ImageMagick fo on-the-fly photo resizing Add default settins, so you don’t need [...]

I’ve been getting some feedback lately on my WordPress Photo Album template. It seems that different WordPress themes use different code, and it’s not as simple as adding get_header(), get_footer() and an optional get_sidebar(). So although a template is a more simple solution, and if you’re familiar enough with HTML and a bit of PHP [...]

I’ve been working on this for quite a while, and now it’s done. a simple template for displaying photo albums within WordPress. the output code is clean XHTML with CSS classes for easy styling. just add the template file to your active WordPress theme folder, upload the folder with the images and thumbnails to somewhere [...]

I just added a page for WordPress themes I make, so far I’ve got No Probs and Greenery. I’m currently working on Leaves and my own X Blog (with some cool new additions and features). Visit my WP themes page here: /web/wpthemes/

After testing WordPress 2.0 on my test server, (my iBook ) I upgraded this site to WordPress 2. while playing around with it, I tweaked the theme’s code a bit, and now a few things, like the sidebar, forward/backward links and a few more have a smoother look. while I was at it, I also [...]

The online Upgrade instructions for WP 2.0 is a 13 step, huge document, that makes you think that you’re dealing with rocket science, or worse. Here are the to-the-point, simple instructions, the way WP is supposed to be. taken from the WP readme file (I wonder who wrote this, and who wrote the online “for-super-dummies” [...]

Well, I just visited WordPress.org, and noticed it had a new design, matching the new WordPress.com, the free WP based blog hosting service. the only problem is that the front page on WopdPress.org is set up like some “Blogging for dummies” site, well, I guess that’s what popularity does to you… I liked the Geekier [...]

I’ve been looking for a good CMS to manage the content of my site, and none that seemed good enough, were easy to skin, but then i got this idea that i could use WordPress, the popular blogging system, as a general CMS. WordPress can create standalone pages as well as blog posts, and with [...]