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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.

I’ll shortly be updating my site with a completely new design, so before I do, here are some sneaky preview images.

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.

I have just released an update to my ‘New User Email Setup’ plugin, and have made a jump to version 0.5 since the code has had a complete rewrite, and added functionality for WordPress 2.7 upwards.

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.

I would like to announce the WordPress Greasemonkey Competition. If you’ve never come across Greasemonkey scripts before, they allow the user to edit the appearance and function of a web page. There are currently only a few scripts available for WordPress, so this competition is designed to create more, often time saving tools.

The beta versions and release candidates of WordPress 2.6 have a really cool new feature when choosing a theme to activate. A working version of the new theme is available in a thickbox, and I love this feature!

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?