Epic Alex | WordPress Tutorials

We interrupt your usual WordPress News to tell you of a competition to win a Google Wave invite!

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 [...]

Finally, after months of promising, I’ve updated my New User Email Setup Plugin. The latest update includes several bug fixes and feature additions. As the Plugin Compatibility Checker is now in place, this is also a call for those of you who use the plugin to give me some feedback.

So, you think you know your stuff, you code like a Ninja, you practically own the internet, but does someone pay you to do it?

I had a little spare time the other day, so I decided to do something I had been wanting to to for a while; make some WordPress Desktops!

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

I love using gravatars on my blogs, but there has been discussion lately that they aren’t used enough, and are still to find the mainstream. In this article, we will look at 3 different ways to get a Gravatar, both promoting their use, and making the user go WOW when using our comment form.

Well, I decided to take the plunge, and upload my new site design that I have been working on for some time now. I’d hinted at the redesign a while back, and discussed some of the cool things I’d implemented, like the YARPP template. So here it is!

I love the Yet Another Related Posts Plugin, it’s the most powerful related posts plugin I’ve ever used, and it has some cracking features, not least of which is being able to use custom templates to control exactly how your related posts are displayed.

I’d like to announce my new plugin ‘Gravajax Registration’. A simple plugin that adds a gravatar to your blog registration page, which automatically updates when an email is entered into the field. The idea is to make a new user feel like they are already a part of your blog’s community because their Gravatar [...]