WordPress is current seeking people to beta test WordPress version 2.9. As stated on the WordPress blog the new version should be ready for beta testing by the end of October. The first round of beta testing focuses on the stability of the new features in addition to removing bugs.
If you would like [...]

This article will deal with how to hide certain categories and subcategories from displaying in your navigation menus. We have covered a couple of different ways to display WordPress categories and subcategories, but sometimes excluding some links can help to present even cleaner navigational menus.

Why do we need this ?
There are many different reasons [...]

Can you tell that this blog has 41 categories and 84 tags in my tag cloud ?

I figured that it was about time to group some of my WordPress posts and show you why I am doing what I am doing. I have written a few “How To” articles but I haven’t brought them [...]

Would you like to write better posts ? I have something that may greatly help you in your quest. Actually, it is WordPress that has a plugin that may help.
Earlier today it was announced that Automattic acquired “After The Deadline” which is more then just an amazing spell checker. This program will [...]

In this article we are going to take a look at creating and displaying different side columns in different locations of your WordPress blog. This will be a lot like Creating Multiple Header Files, but we will be modifying the functions file so that we can use widgets in our side column.

Why do [...]

I had a little spare time over the weekend and I decided to use it to create some new Blog Engage banners for this blog … and share them with everyone else.
I have been a member of the Blog Engage social network since July and have been watching it slowly grow. I have been [...]

In this article we will be creating mini photo albums on our WordPress post pages in the photography category. These photo albums will replace our standard “Related Posts” link lists on these pages and create a very nice graphic display of related photographs. Hopefully this will make it easier for your blog visitors [...]

A few articles back I mentioned that I would do a post about the thumbnail program that this blog uses … TimThumb. Without further ado let’s take a peek at this small php program.

What This Program Does
Timthumb.php will crop, zoom, and resize any and all images and photos on your website. This program [...]

This article describes how to override the WordPress admin posts-per-page setting for selected pages or sections on your blog. For example, you could set one of your categories to display 20 posts per page while the rest of your blog displays 10 posts per page. We will also take a quick look at how to change the sort order of your categories and archives.

I consider the Executable PHP Widget plugin for WordPress a “must have” because, frankly, I cannot believe that WordPress doesn’t include this in the core installation.
This plugin is just like the standard text / HTML widget that comes with WordPress, but it will also allow you to run PHP script in the widget. For [...]