Creating a Tumblog with WordPress

Creating a Tumblog with WordPress

8th

March 2010

For the recent (first) design of my personal site I added in some Tumblr style functionality. In this post we’ll look at how WordPress can be used to create a Tumblog.

Basics Of WordPress Theme Design

Basics Of WordPress Theme Design

22nd

February 2010

The basics of WordPress theme design looks at the fundamental knowledge you need to start creating your own WordPress themes from scratch.

Speeding Up WordPress With If Statements

Speeding Up WordPress With If Statements

15th

February 2010

Speeding up WordPress has just got easier; using PHP’s if statements you can only load the stuff you need.

Change CSS Styles with Different Categories in WordPress

Change CSS Styles with Different Categories in WordPress

10th

February 2010

A very neat trick that allows you to apply a different stylesheet to each category (and therefore change colors), all with the power of WordPress.

Effective Dropdown Menus With WordPress

Effective Dropdown Menus With WordPress

3rd

February 2010

This article is taken from Packt’s “WordPress 2.8 Theme Design” with permission. A review of the book is coming soon. I don’t agree with everything that’s said, but I’ve decided to publish it as the overall jist of the post will be beneficial to many.
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Best Practices for Creating Unique Blog Posts

Best Practices for Creating Unique Blog Posts

27th

January 2010

Recently here on WPShout I’ve been sharing little tips that will help create a unique look for individual blog posts. Today we’ll be rounding up the “best practices” for creating that unique look, the easy way.

Customising the “Subscribe to Comments” Plugin

Customising the “Subscribe to Comments” Plugin

20th

January 2010

Have you wondered how to change the layout of the WordPress plugin subscribe to comments subscription manager? There’s no easy solution provided by the author of the plugin. So after looking at its core file I found out it’s actually quite easy by using an extremely simple tweak. With this tutorial I’m going to show you how you can give it a nice custom design.

Most Commented Posts The Right Way

Most Commented Posts The Right Way in WordPress

6th

January 2010

Just a very quick tip but nonetheless an important one. Many of you will be using any number of plugins or the database query that’s been doing the rounds recently to display your most popular posts. That code/plugin is no longer needed as WordPress’ query_posts can now display your most commented posts.

10 More Tips To Improve Your Theme

10 More Tips To Improve Your WordPress Theme

30th

November 2009

10 More Ways to Improve Your WordPress Theme in this post – add a theme options page, multiple sidebars, custom write fields and awesome SEO!

Add Columns to Your Posts!

The Death of the Boring Blog Post – Easily Add Columns to Any WordPress Post

26th

November 2009

Easily put your post’s content into columns using just the WordPress text editor and a CSS grid.

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