How to Limit Content in WordPress
Have you seen those cool magazine style WordPress themes around this days? They are just cool. You might have noticed that they sometimes show a few words of the post, this is for sure not the default WordPress excerpt showing that because the default excerpt length is set to 55 words and manually excerpting every post would be a great time consumer. So, what are this guys putting together to get that cool effect on their sites by controlling the length of the content?
Pack your WordPress theme with the necessary CSS
WordPress themes are being a great online resource for everybody to use, modify and share. This applies to GPL themes only though. However, in order to offer our online neighbors good themes that they will be happy using, theme developers, including me, should take care of some peculiar aspects in themes such as the use [...]
How to Display Recent Comments Without Using a Plugin or Widget
Yes, that’s right, you can have comments displayed in your blog or site running on WordPress without using neither the classic pre-built Recent Comments Widget nor any of the Recent Comments Plugins that are available out there for everybody to use. To do so you need to have two pieces of PHP code with little [...]
UKlocum, my Latest WordPress Freelance Project
One of my many WordPress freelance projects I am working on is UKlocum. This is one of the many projects I have received from my dear client from Poland, Greg. When Greg contacted me for this project explaining what he wanted to do, he asked me if this could be done with WordPress. He had [...]
How to find a WordPress category ID
Many WordPress themes, especially those in magazine style, need to have some configurations in terms of category IDs. So, you need to set an ID in the proper part of code (WordPress loop) so that you have the posts of a certain category shown on a certain section of the page.
Master: Premium GPL WordPress Theme
As announced in the introductory post of Master WordPress theme, I am releasing my first ever free WordPress theme. I am very happy to have achieved this and I am very hopeful that 2009 will be a great year of success for my WordPress freelance experience. Below I have taken an two paragraphs from my [...]
Blog Design: WebVideoMax.com
Andrew Kelly contacted me for a kind of business blog project that he was working on. After I showed his some of my previews works and we agreed on the price, I begin designing a WordPress theme for him. He had previously chosen to use as a theme the semilogic theme framework. Well, his decision made me suffer until I suggested him that developed a theme just for him from scratch. He agreed …
How to remove nofollow attribute from your WordPress blog
As you may already know, Wordpress the rel=”nofollow” attribute in comments. That makes any comment with a link on it have no significance for Google when they ranks websites. Getting rid of the rel=”nofollow” attribute is one of the tactics that many WordPress bloggers follow to get more people comment on their blogs. And in [...]