How to: Create Custom Sidebars with Widget Logic
With the addition of custom menus in WordPress, it has become much easier to define your own menus. However, it still does not give the
July 19, 2011 5 Comments
How To: Extend the WordPress Visual Post Editor Buttons
When writing a new post in visual mode ( as apposed to the HTML view ) you have a number of buttons provided by the
July 18, 2011 4 Comments
How To: Setting Up WordPress Locally Using XAMPP
Developing locally on your own computer or on-site server can save time and provide an easier route for testing and development, and with XAMPP you
July 13, 2011 2 Comments
How To: Add Tooltips to WordPress
Nowadays, tooltips are often seen as a shortcode in several premium themes, however those of which who still carry on the simple blogging tradition that
July 6, 2011 4 Comments
How to Update to WordPress 3.2: Plugins & Advice
It’s that time again, WordPress 3.2 has just been released so it’s time to update your blog to the latest version. In this post I’m
July 5, 2011 4 Comments
How To: Change the Logo on your WordPress Login Page
Changing the logo on a WordPress login page is a great way to add some branding to a site, particularly when building sites for clients
July 4, 2011 2 Comments
Creating Additional Pages for Your WordPress Theme
You can make your own completely custom, uneditable content using this option and then create a page, naming it how you want it to appear in the site, and applying the page template in Page Attributes.
June 28, 2011 No Comments
Different Size Post Thumbnails in your WordPress Themes
The post thumbnail or featured image was a great addition to WordPress and may have helped spur the “Magazine Theme” boom we have seen over
April 5, 2011 12 Comments
20 WordPress Theme Hacks to replace the need for Plugins
Plugins are great, we use a number on WPLift, but are they always neccessary ? A lot of plugins just replicate functionality that you could
January 19, 2011 11 Comments
10 Handy WordPress RSS Feed Hacks
RSS is one of the primary delivery means for your blog’s content, your most loyal readers will likely access it via your RSS feed but
January 12, 2011 15 Comments
How to make your WordPress blog mobile ready
With the proliferation of internet browsing on mobile devices these days, it helps to prepare your WordPress blog for the best possible browsing experience for
December 9, 2010 7 Comments
22 Handy WordPress Code Snippets
It helps when coding your own themes to have an array of code snippets to hand that you can incorporate into your the theme, I
November 19, 2010 1 Comment
WordPress Cheat Sheets & PDFs (Download)
We all need a little reminder about various WordPress tags and functions when coding our templates, if you don’t want to keep refering to the
October 21, 2010 4 Comments
WordPress Theme Options Panels; Examples & Best Practices
An options panel is pretty much essential these days for any premium theme; they are a great step forward in theme design for the casual
September 23, 2010 18 Comments
