Epic Alex | WordPress Tutorials

This is a very simple plugin that splits your post into two columns, as you find in newspaper articles, which when used with a ‘News Theme’, adds that finishing touch.

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?

Over the past few months, the WordPress theme community has been given a new lease of life with the advent of ‘News Themes’. These themes often have a very unconventional layout on their homepage that recreates the layout of a newspaper front page for example. One of the key features of these themes in my [...]

As this blog is new on the scene, I’m doing a lot to try and promote my posts. It therefore seemed like a great time to write a post about what I’ve done, and what I’m planning on doing, so that others can use it to help them on their way too.

As I’ve been running the 2.5 release candidates on this blog, I thought it was the perfect opportunity to upgrade my plugin New User Email Setup to make it display in line with the new admin interface being implemented.

On Wednesday, Derek at 5ThirtyOne made a modified version of his current theme available for download with the intention of “breaking the typical blog mold”. For me this was an exciting opportunity to see how he deals with his homepage. Instead of using the typical excerpt to display what the post is going to be [...]

Following several server errors and downtime, I have decided to move hosts, and at the same time I purchased a new domain name; epicalex.com. I was slightly worried about losing my Google Page Rank, but I felt that the rebranding and move away from a subdomain was worth the extra effort.

I have just completed and finished testing my first WordPress Plugin, ‘New User Email Set Up’. The function of the plugin is to provide a basic interface so that admins can define a custom email that is sent to users when they first register.

I use the Author Highlight Plugin to highlight which comments I have written on a post. However, when I created this, I wanted to maintain the alternate comment highlighting that I had in place before.