WordPress Picks for the Week [03/24]

WordPress Picks for the Week [03/24]

Shortlink trick Simple piece of code to utilise any shortlink plugin that implements the “get_shortlink” function properly. Minimum WordPress Theme Requirements This one is for all you theme authors who end up missing some rather important elements in your themes. Declare Multiple Widgetized Areas This one is a really good set of code when you have a theme that has multiple widgetized areas.

WordPress Picks for the Week [02/03]
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WordPress Picks for the Week [02/03]

Following this week, I will be publishing the WordPress Picks series every Wednesday, instead of Sunday. 55+ Most Wanted WordPress Tips, Tricks, and Hacks I’m not a big fan of super long posts, but this is a comprehensive list of articles and tutorials regarding WordPress Load A Stylesheet Only If Use Gallery If you are using the WordPress Gallery, you should load the the stylesheet only the pages on which the gallery is displayed How to Add Content and Completely Manipulate Your WordPress RSS Feeds Some tricks on adding to customizable text to your RSS feeds. You can also do some of this with my plugin Add to Feed.

WordPress Picks for this week [10/11]

Quick WP tip: pagination classes Yoast guides you through a quick way of styling WordPress’ internal functions next_posts_link and previous_posts_link. Five Ways to Change Your WordPress Password Maybe you’re regularly forgetting your WordPress Admin password, or maybe this is your first time and you’re totally clueless as to how to proceed? Then, this article is for you!

What’s new in WordPress 2.8
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What’s new in WordPress 2.8

A new iteration of the popular blogging platform WordPress has been recently released. Codenamed “Baker” after renowned trumpeter & vocalist Chet Baker, the new version has a slew of under-the-hood changes in addition to changes to the Administrative interface: New drag-and-drop widgets admin interface and new widgets API Syntax highlighting and function lookup built into plugin and theme editors Browse the theme directory and install themes from the admin interface Allow the dashboard widgets to be arranged in up to four columns Allow configuring the number of items to show on management pages with an option in Screen Options Support timezones and automatic daylight savings time adjustment  Support IIS 7.0 URL Rewrite Module Faster loading of admin pages via script compression and concatenation What’s noteworthy about this particular release is the sheer number of support tickets both opened and closed (over 790 in total), which means that the developers have made a conscious effort at listening to what the users’ feedback and issues are and trying to get them resolved.