Ed: This article is part of the 21 Days of WordPress Tips Most bloggers have their favorite articles they’ve written. And while these may not be the most commented or most linked to, they are the best in displaying what the blogger writes about and his expertise. So what’s the best way to highlight these [...]

Ed: This article is part of the 21 Days of WordPress Tips There have been a lot of security issues with WordPress in the past and, if you don’t setup your installation correctly, it can be wide open to hacker attacks. Here’s a few things I’ve seen: Embedded spam links – A hacker will add [...]

Ed: This article is part of the 21 Days of WordPress Tips While it’s nice to build a new site behind a coming soon page, in most cases when you are designing a new site you’re doing it while a current site already exists. There are several different ways to do this, but in most [...]

Ed: This article is part of the 21 Days of WordPress Tips If you’re maintaining a WordPress blog that has multiple authors you may want to let them attach a little biography information to everything they write. Here’s the steps to do this simply. 1. Have your authors login to the WordPress dashboard and click [...]

Ed: This article is part of the 21 Days of WordPress Tips Last week I showed you how to make custom fields easy to use for the back end of WordPress. But once you get the content in there, how do you successfully extract it and use it in your theme? There are a few [...]

Ed: Today’s article is part of the 21 Days of WordPress Tips and was written by Adii, the WordPress Rockstar. Adii runs a boutique design firm at {radiiate} and a premium theme shop at WooThemes. One of the main reasons why designers & developers love WordPress, is because it is simply so easy to use [...]

Ed: This article is part of the 21 Days of WordPress Tips While I love WordPress and every one of my clients know their site is running on an open source platform, it’s still nice to add your own branding to the back end so the client never forgets who did such a fabulous job [...]

Ed: This article is part of the 21 Days of WordPress Tips The most frustrating feature of WordPress is custom fields. They provide huge potential for usability but remain largely under developed. The term “custom fields” means nothing to anyone but a WordPress power user and their explanation (“Custom fields can be used to add [...]

Ed: This article is part of the 21 Days of WordPress Tips The WordPress template files can often be confusing. Figuring out which files get used and when, which ones you don’t need, etc is very daunting. Not to mention, this information is pretty hard to sift through in the WordPress codex. In this post [...]

Ed: This article is part of the 21 Days of WordPress Tips The WordPress core provides several “conditional tags” that are helpful in showing different content or code depending on where you are on the site. You can read about all of them at the WordPress codex, however I’m going to share with you a [...]