Archive for the ‘Hints and Tips’ Category
How to add polls anywhere to your blog or website
www.flamescorpion.com - Tutorial on how to add polls anywhere on your website with wp polls plugin. The article explains how to create the polls and add them into different locations of the blog. read more &rsaquo
WordPress Theme Development Checklist
www.chitich.com - Printable version of the WordPress Theme Development Checklist from WordPress Codex. Although, the list is available at the WP Codex, it isn’t enough readable and it’s easier to have the cheat-sheet printed on paper. read more &rsaquo
Getting URL of Post Thumbnails in WordPress 2.9
www.leewillis.co.uk - One of the improvements in WordPress 2.9 is native support for thumbnail images on posts. The API is pretty good – although it assumes that you want to return the whole IMG tag. If you just want the URL to ... read more &rsaquo
Customise Your BuddyPress URL
www.pimpmywordpress.com - By customising your URL there are benefits for the users. It allows for SEO oppurtunities as the URL keywords are more relevant to a search. For example, if you are creating a community website around an University, it would make ... read more &rsaquo
7 Basic Tips For Designing Your Blog
www.famousbloggers.net - You will have to become quite familiar with the coding while designing your blog, so here is some basic tips you should pay attention to while designing your blog read more &rsaquo
Sign in with Twitter to a Buddypress site
www.wpin.me - Firstly how do you attract people to register on your proud new buddypress powered website? Make it as simple as possible and what better signin/registration method than Twitter! With that logic in mind it’s time to go to town. read more &rsaquo
10+ life saving SQL queries
www.catswhocode.com - Working directly on the database can be a real life-saver. In this article, I’m going to show you 10+ extremely useful SQL queries for WordPress. read more &rsaquo
15 Do’s and Don’ts of Effective WordPress Theming
www.themelab.com - In this article we’ll go over 15 Do’s and Don’ts of WordPress theming like hardcoding images into your themes and utilizing template tags. Includes practical tips with code examples if applicable. read more &rsaquo