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 [...]
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.
This update has been long overdue, and quite a lot has been added to the plugin behind the scenes, and [...]
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 [...]
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.
One of the [...]
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!
I decided to make a front end implementation of the themes.php page of the admin pages, and I [...]
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 [...]
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.
The plugin will only work on single post pages, so your archives and homepage etc will remain as they are now.
There are currently no configurable options, [...]
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 [...]


