WordPress SEO – the Post Title
First up, the one thing to say as far as SEO is concerned, WordPress runs fine out of the box – provided the theme you’re using isn’t doing anything too weird, if you don’t want to get involved in the...
View ArticleWordPress 2.9 – Using Post Thumbnails
With WordPress 2.9 comes a revised image thumbnail system – previously, support for posts with attached thumbnails was a little haphazard (it is a fiddly business in terms of the programming), but this...
View ArticleHow’s Twitter doing these days?
Some thoughts on Twitter and how it affects the average WordPress blogger presently :- how to get value out of it, what to avoid and how to maintain a decent etiquette – it does seem to have grown...
View ArticleWordPress Action Hooks – the simplified version
There’s no point in hacking around with the WordPress core code. You still see people doing it sometimes and happily showing off their results, but it just isn’t a good idea. Nobody else can use it...
View ArticleA jQuery Slideshow for WordPress 2.9
You want a jQuery slideshow for your WordPress blog? - on the front page, or maybe in the sidebar? No real problem, all the javascript is taken of with the help of a jQuery plugin, all we have to do is...
View ArticleSeparate Pingbacks from User Comments
People have predicted their death for a long time, but pingbacks/trackbacks (and displaying them) are still firmly with us – there is a certain vanity involved… They do give an indication of related...
View ArticleUsing JSON with WordPress
With the popularity of jQuery, AJAX, and client-side programming operations in general, there’s more use made of JSON as a format for getting data backwards and forwards. For example, the Twitter API...
View ArticleWP-Cron – automating and scheduling
You need a cron job in your WordPress blog – something run to a schedule, hourly, daily… Instead of fixing up a crontab and using wget or lynx, you can use WordPress’s internal version of the cron job....
View ArticlePHP Calendar Functions
It’s really easy to get really mixed up when trying to program with date functions – lots to keep track of, calendars, timezones, daylight saving, weird months that have different numbers of days in...
View ArticleA Flickr Badge using WordPress Shortcodes
Flickr provides a neat little snippet of javaScript to supply various image galleries direct to your site – a so-named Flickr badge. So if your gallery is on Flickr – rather in your WordPress, which...
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