Have you added the rel=”nofollow” attribute to your WordPress tag cloud? Here’s a YouTube video from Matt Cutts talking about the need to add the attribute to tag clouds, where he explains that passing PageRank through the tag cloud links is probably not the most efficient way
Read more →Looking for a cheatsheet for the contents of WordPress’ $post object? I just updated a reference I posted a while back. Get it here: WordPress $post Object Cheatsheet
Read more →Whenever possible, I prefer to use pretty URLs in WordPress, and the ability to adjust permalink settings in the WordPress admin makes that simple to do. However, what if you want to pass a query string to a page without muddying up the URL with that query string? In this tutorial I’ll show you how to add custom rewrite rules to WordPress to do just that.
Read more →Using WordPress as a CMS often for client sites I use custom fields perhaps quite a bit more than the regular WordPress user. Still, I’ve received quite a few requests to write about the use of custom fields in WordPress, so in this post I’ll cover the ins and outs of WordPress custom fields.
Read more →If you use custom loops in WordPress you may run into pagination issues. Specifically, no matter what page you’re on, only the first page’s worth of posts are displayed. Here’s a really quick solution to that problem using the query_posts() function.
Read more →I recently worked on a project that required the ability to only allowed logged-in users access to a particular page. Here’s how I got it done.
Read more →In this tutorial I take you through the fairly simple process of setting a static homepage for your WordPress site and moving the blog page to another location, like /blog/.
Read more →If you’ve run into a message that says “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance” while upgrading your blog, it can be a bit worrisome until you realize how easy it is to fix. In this tutorial I show you the simple way to remove this message and restore access to your blog.
Read more →If you’ve been running a WordPress site for any time at all, and are as clumsy as I am sometimes, you’ve probably deleted a post or two by accident, or maybe WordPress deleted it for you unintentionally. While I love writing here, writing something twice because you deleted the first copy is a major chore – we’ve all had to redo work that was already done and, whatever the reason, it’s frustrating. Here’s how I recovered a post that got deleted almost immediately after I published it.
Read more →I know WordPress 2.7 has been out for a bit now and I’ve yet to release the newest versions of my Get Some! and This Just In! WordPress themes. The themes are finished and have been submitted for approval to the WordPress theme repository. Unfortunately, the approval
Read more →Roughly 200 WordPress themes were removed from the WordPress theme repository. Apparently, WordPress will no longer approve themes with links to sites that sell other themes…even if the submitted theme is completely free. More here.
Read more →WordPress 2.7 was released to self-hosted users today. The new version represents quite a change in the general layout of the admin screens, although, once you find your way around, other than a few added features, it really isn’t that different. One of the best additions, in
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