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.
What [...]

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.
This is some [...]

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? The majority of times when this happens, is when someone writes something [...]

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?
A category page is set up so that whatever category [...]

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 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.
Now that the full 2.5 has been released, it is even more important that other plugin authors [...]

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.

This is often a topic which comes up in the WordPress support forum, so how did I achieve the effect?

Install the [...]