Posts tagged ‘WordPress Themes’
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September 30th
6410 Checks to the Perfect WordPress theme
Excerpt: I've seen it happen so often. People have a great blog, and at some point, they decide they need a new look and feel. They then decide to either buy one or use one of the free themes available at wordpress.org. There's a couple of things they'll look at, usually in the order: layout / look and f…
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June 17th
12My redesign: the homepage
Excerpt: Quite a few people have been e-mailing me how I managed to get my homepage design done in WordPress, especially with the different featured blocks. So, since this site is all about sharing, let me show you! This is all done in the index.php file of my theme. The first block, the intro, is just ha…
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March 13th
13Replacing plugins with template code: Gravatars
Excerpt: Lately I've been trying to reduce the number of plugins I've got loading to speed up my WordPress a bit, especially those plugins that do "stuff" in my theme. I've been replacing these plugins with template code, and this is the easiest fix I had so far: I replaced a 40k gravatar plugin with one (!!…
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February 19th
14Looking for SEO aware WordPress developers
Excerpt: I'll make it quick and easy: I'm getting too much requests for WordPress related work (plugins, themes, etc.). I don't mind because I love to cherry pick, but I'd like to have a few people whom I could refer too. So please, if you're a WordPress developer and you're aware of SEO (hey, if you read th…
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January 21st
72Speed up and clean up your WordPress!
Excerpt: Every once in a while people will ask me to fix their blog, because it's either slow, or broken. Most of the time this is caused by either broken plugins, or broken themes. There are a few things I tend to do when I get to clean up stuff, and I though I'd list them for you. Clean up your theme …
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August 21st
4Adding a description to your categories
Excerpt: Robbert mailed me today asking with which template tags I used to make the description show up on my category pages. Well, first of all, you can add a description to your categories under Manage -> Categories: If you press the edit button there you can edit them like this: The descr…
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July 4th
5WordPress theming: pushing trackbacks down
Excerpt: I was playing around with my comments section as I wanted to style trackbacks differently from "normal" comments, and while playing around, I decided to just bump them down. The problem with the trackbacks was that they were interfering with the comment discussion. And as I want to keep that discuss…
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April 30th
5Fixed category subpage titles and a fix in permalink redirect plugin
Excerpt: Subpages of category archives were improperly 301'd back to the main category page... Fixed that now, so update NOW: the permalink redirect plugin. I fixed the title for category subpages too btw, check how this works: [sourcecode language="php"] } else if ( is_category() ) { echo single_cat_t…
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April 23rd
57Showing subcategories on WordPress category pages
Excerpt: I wanted to show the subcategories for a given category on it's category page in the sidebar, but somehow the code for this wasn't readily available. Basically you need to check whether there are any children, and if there are, list the categories with the current category as a parent or grandparent…
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April 18th
31WordPress subpages going supplemental: the fix
Excerpt: I noticed that the subpages for my blog (you can find links to them in the footer of this page), were all going supplemental. This wasn't really surprising as those subpages were displaying exactly the same as the frontpage: 5 full posts and a "next" and "previous" link to the next pages. This meant…
