My redesign: the homepage
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 [...]
Replacing plugins with template code: Gravatars
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 [...]
Looking for SEO aware WordPress developers
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 [...]
Speed up WordPress, and clean it up too!
Every once in a while people will ask me to fix their blog, because it’s either slow, or broken. When it’s not something to do with their WordPress hosting, (some hosts are just plain bad and slow), most of the time this is caused by either broken plugins, or broken themes. There are a few [...]
Adding a description to your categories
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 description is what we’ll [...]
WordPress theming: pushing trackbacks down
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 discussion as lively as possible, [...]
Fixed category subpage titles and a fix in permalink redirect plugin
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:
Showing subcategories on WordPress category pages
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. The following code [...]
WordPress subpages going supplemental: the fix
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 that [...]
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