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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

We have already looked at how to display subcategory lists on the category pages, so in this article we are going to look at how to display subcategory lists in your sidebar, theme pages, and anywhere in WordPress. We will also be using the “descendant function” to help WordPress determine master parent categories for posts not directly assigned to a parent category.

I have an article sitting in the back of my head that deals with multiple WordPress Loops on a single page like I have used on the home page of this blog and one other blog. I decided, though, to first address a much simpler topic … the WordPress Loop inside of a Loop.
The [...]

This quick tutorial will help you add a favicon to your WordPress installation … or just about any web site. Adding a favicon is actually rather easy. The hard part is designing an image that looks good at a very small size.
What is a Favicon ?
A favicon is a small … 16px by [...]

This article will show you how to make simple programming charges to your WordPress theme that will allow you to:
1. Display different theme templates for different category pages
2. Display your sub-categories on your category page.
This is a rather simple procedure … but you know me, I am going to make it even easier for you [...]