Category Archives: WordPress

WordPress Theme of the Month: Simple

It’s May 2008, and this month’s featured WordPress theme is Simple. A live demo is available.

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Login-Box Plugin for WordPress

Login-Box, by danillonunes, puts a hidden WordPress login in your template, which can be made visible by pressing Ctrl-E (or in some cases Alt-E). Not a bad idea. I’ve found it much easier to do administrative tasks by putting a login link on Webmaster-Source’s…

Smarter Archives: Clean and Compact Date-Based Archives

I can’t stand seeing blogs that have a long list of monthly archives in their sidebars (I’m looking at you, prefab Blogger templates!). It clutters the design, and promotes long sidebars. Blogger users, unfortunately, don’t have the nifty Pages feature WordPress bloggers get (or…

WordPress Theme of the Month: Lemon Twist

This month’s WordPress Theme of the Month is Lemon Twist by FarFromFearless.

WordPress 2.5 Automated Plugin Updater

WordPress users have long complained about the time and effort required to update all of their plugins. WordPress 2.5 RC1 introduces a new feature that allows you to update plugins to their latest version simply by clicking a link and entering your FTP password.…

Evaluating the WordPress 2.5 Interface

WordPress 2.5’s new interface is quite a bit different from the current one. Currently, many WordPress users aren’t entirely sure what they think about it yet (myself included). I will have to use it for a few weeks until I’ve decided what I think.…

Using WordPress Custom Fields to Control AdSense Sizes

Two of the most common AdSense placements on blogs are A rectangular ad (such as the 250×250 unit) in the post, floated to the left, with the text wrapping around it. A 468×60 “banner” unit between the post title and the content. In some…

Homepage Excerpts Plugin

Homepage Excerpts is a WordPress plugin that allows you to add some extra flexibility to the display of posts on your main page. Usually you would have to have all posts displayed in their entirety, have all posts truncated, or Use the Optional Excerpt…

Preview Theme Plugin

Working on a new theme for your blog? Wouldn’t it be nice if you could edit a theme, and preview the results, without activating it for all to see? Yes, you can do that. You could do it the hard way, and install another…

GoCodes Redirection Plugin 1.0

Introducing my latest WordPress plugin: GoCodes, the redirection plugin for WordPress. Have you ever had to give someone a shortened version of a URL? Maybe you’re a podcaster, and you need to say “visit mydomain.com/2008/01/03/my-post-with-a-long-url/ for more info.” Wouldn’t it be useful if you…