Epic Alex | WordPress Tutorials

I’ve been working on a project lately, and needed to add an RSS widget to the Dashboard via a theme or plugin, and was surprised to find that there were no tutorials offering all the code, just tutorials on how to add a widget, but with no content. So here goes, how to create and [...]

I’m pleased to say that my guest post on Pro Blog Design was published today. As per my usual style, it’s a fairly in depth tutorial on using post_class

In this article we’ll look at a few more ways to improve your sidebar lists using jQuery. The first tip looks at how to dynamically display a category’s in a tooltip. We’ll also look at some quicker and simpler tips to liven things up as well, including alternate highlighting, counting and inverse fading.

A lot of blogs display a list of their most recent or popular posts in their sidebar, more often than not just showing the title of each one. But how can you give your reader an idea of what that post is about by using the excerpt, without taking up too much room? JQuery is our friend!

So, you’ve read all the tutorials on how to get custom field values and how to get posts that have a certain key/value, but what about if the post your are viewing has a custom field, and you want all the other posts with that custom field value; a value that you won’t know in [...]

There is often a lot of talk about where WordPress plugin settings pages should be placed in the admin panels, and once the plugin author has decided where to put it, the user then has to work out where to find it. Well in WordPress 2.7, a new filters was added to solve the problem.

Quite a lot of blogs make use of the Meta Widget or a function to display login/out capability in their sidebar. Once logged in, all sorts of information can be retrieved about the user, which will allow us to display their Gravatar, giving the feeling that you are really part of that blog.

After writing a post and publishing it, it often becomes necessary to add to or alter something in the post. But how do you let your readers know what was added later, without those edits becoming lost in the rest of the post?

As one of my previous tutorials on creating a dynamic slideshow from your posts showed, there are a lot of useful and interesting uses for Custom Fields. One use that I make of custom fields is to pull an image from a post and display it on my homepage, however I don’t always need something [...]

Most blogs that use WordPress are set up so that their posts fall under different categories, and all these posts can be listed on one category page. But what if you wanted to add some kind of description about that category when viewing only those posts?