It seems like just last year fullscreen WordPress themes just started to capture some momentum within the theme development community and now…well you can see that there was clearly a demand for them. Fullscreen or full bleed WordPress themes empower photographers and creatives to display their photos in a bold manner. It’s no wonder they have become so wildly popular over the last 18 months it seems.
If you’d like to change which of the authors on your blog is given attribution for a specific post, this video will show you how.
This handy dashboard widget allows you to monitor your server directly on the WordPress dashboard.
Simply copy the code below and paste in your functions.php file. For this to work you also must set the value of the $logfile variable at the start to the absolute server path of your log file.
If you are a WordPress user who is bored with the same old fonts you should check out these WordPress Plugins for font replacement.
Typography on the web is very limiting. Luckily you have options when it comes to improving the fonts on your site. The Font Burner Control Panel plugin allows you to easily add any of the 1000+ free fonts available on the Font Burner website to your WordPress theme. Simply find a font you like and type it’s name into this plugin and your headlines will instantly be transformed! You don’t need to know how to use sifr, you don’t have to customize your theme. You don’t need Flash. Font Burner is the easiest way to bring rich typography into your WordPress theme.
A neat way to spice up your WordPress search page is to highlight search terms within your search results. The solution described in this tutorial will highlight both the title and post content and is a drop-in modification for WordPress.
Imagine it’s 2am and you just hit “activate” on your most anticipated WordPress theme to date. Finally, after weeks of hard work you now get to showoff that friggin’ sweet WordPress theme you designed and coded from scratch.
In this kickass WordPress article there are 24 total resources that will show you how to design and code WordPress themes from scratch. This includes 9 design and coding tutorials, 12 Photoshop mockups, 2 WordPress e-books, and even a developers “Cheat Sheet”.
Breadcrumbs are a great way to give people a perspective of where they are on your site. In this post I will explain how to add breadcrumbs to WordPress without using a plugin. Adding this feature will also help the search engine spiders to find the structure of your site and decrease the time it takes to index a single page. A lot of wordpress theme developers like to use as few plugins as possible and this code will help you accomplish that.
Getting the awesomess of JQuery integrated into WordPress is much more simple than you think. Here are 10 Tutorials using WordPress and JQuery.
Let’s start this off by properly including JQuery in WordPress.
So you finally got that long awaited popular post with a billion Digg’s and hundreds of comments. After spending quality time responding to some of your favorites you realized that your replies just got lost in the mix.
As the author you really want the readers to have an easy way to know exactly when and where your responses are so you decide to find a quick and easy solution. Why not just give your comments a different background color? I will show you how to highlight author comments in your WordPress blog. This is a lot easier than you think because at WPSwitch we are never gonna let you down. Here is a quick and super simple solution to make your replies stand out from the rest.
So you want to sell stuff online but you have no idea where to start? You may know WordPress as one of the absolute best blogging platforms on the planet but its ease of use and flexibility also makes it a great tool to start your ecommerce business.
Here we present 11 shopping cart and ecommerce plugins to power up your WordPress site with a truly great shopping experience.
There are many guides for WordPress SEO spread throughout hundreds of blogs across the internets. Some of them have fairly useful strategies and others are simply a waste of your time. The default WordPress theme is pretty descent but when it comes to using other themes you never know how good, or bad, the theme was built for optimal SEO friendliness.
I have compiled what I believe the be the definitive sources for WordPress SEO. Below you will find a list of top search engine optimization tutorials, the best plugins to use, and some awesome wordpress themes that take care of almost 100% of your SEO needs with little tweaking.
Let’s face it, the average blog designs these days are somewhat cookie cutter and a bit boring. You see a lot of rehashed free themes and you as well decided to use the same design that everyone else does. Time to change that by giving your blog some unique but very simple styles. How about using different styles for your wordpress categories?
