Update: Version 0.3 is now available. It has been 10 months to the day since I released Sanitary 0.1, a clean starting point for developing WordPress themes. An update is obviously overdue, so even though it will need to be updated again as soon as WordPress 3.0 comes out, I’m releasing Sanitary 0.2. It is …
Sometimes it comes in handy to make the search form on a blog only return results from a single category. It’s actually quite simple. 1. Find the category ID First we need to find the ID of the category that we want to search. We can find that by going to Posts>Categories and hovering over …
Update: The plugin has gone through a number of revisions since I first published this post. See: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/latest-posts-by-author/ for the latest versions. The code posted below is from version 0.6. I just posted my first plugin to wordpress.org. It creates an unordered list of the most recent posts by a given author. It can be …
Introduced in WordPress 2.5, shortcodes make it easy to include pieces of code or content in multiple places across your site without having to repeatedly copy and paste. Also, if you need to go back and make adjustments, with shortcodes you don’t need to make the adjustment on every page, you just edit the shortcode …
This post is about adding the custom header functionality to a WordPress theme. If you were looking for existing themes that support custom headers, I suggest you try the WordPress free themes directory. Since version 2.1, WordPress has allowed custom headers to be added to themes. I don’t really have a use for it on …
Default Sizes By default, WordPress has four sizes that you can choose from when displaying your images. They are: Thumbnail (150×150) Medium (300×300) Large (1024×1024) Full Size (Whatever the image dimensions are) That’s great that they give us choices, but what if we want a different size? I really wanted my images to be the …
It’s been about a week and a half since I started this blog and I’m beginning to get spam comments as well as pingbacks from blogs that are just posting the first paragraph of my posts. Since I don’t want to have to moderate each individual comment, especially as the site grows, today I’m going …
At the time of this writing, I’m using the Thematic Theme Framwork. I’m sure I’ll build my own theme for this blog in time, but for the moment I’m concentrating on other things. The Thematic Theme Framwork has 13 widget ready areas, which is more than plenty. I’m just going to rearrainge my sidebar today, …