My plugins featured in Web Designer Magazine

Web Designer issue 164

In issue 164 of Web Designer Magazine by Imagine publishing there is a feature article on WordPress plug-ins: Electrify Your Blog: The Top 20 WordPress Plug-ins for the Next-gen Blogger. I’m very happy to see that they listed two of my plugins in it. (more…)

Using git for WordPress development

git is a powerful revision control system. It is a distributed system. This means that you can commit, create branches or tags on your local hard drive without any network connection. Read more about git on the project’s website, there’s also great documentation there. (more…)

Shortcodes, include CSS and JS only on the correct blog pages

Not too long ago I wanted to add a new plugin to my blog. During various tests I noticed something quite shocking: at least one of the plugins insisted on loading it’s CSS and jquery on every page of my blog. A little more testing showed me that many plugins do the same. (more…)

Creating a valid WordPress theme

Diesen Artikel auf deutsch Recently, I’ve been checking out some of the blogs that link back to me because they use one of my plugins. And it seems like a lot of them are using buggy, incorrect templates. It looks like many WordPress theme developers don’t read the theme development checklist. (more…)

Moving WordPress comments

Edit: I wrote a plugin to make this easier, see the move WordPress comments plugin page.

Do you sometimes get comments that should be on a different post or page on your WordPress blog? I get such posts from time to time and always wondered how to move them to a different post. It turns out to be quite easy. (more…)

Different titles for WordPress blog page and static front page

I was a little surprised when I realized that wp_title() doesn’t return the page title for a static WordPress front page or the blog page. I don’t like that, because I want at least the blog page to have a label. Something like… blog :-D or maybe news. (more…)

WordPress 2.7 and the comment pager

Comment paging is a great new feature in WordPress 2.7. However, how do you not display the pager when there are no previous or next comments? After digging through the code for quite a while and chatting with some people here’s a solution: (more…)

Ozh admin menu and WordPress 2.7

I was anxious to finally try out the wordpress 2.7 beta. As a happy user of Ozh’s admin drop down menu I had to realize that the menus were completely gone in the backend. (more…)

Different CSS style for logged in WordPress users

Update: I wrote a theme switch plugin that changes the template for logged in users. It’s available here.

I like to tweak my wordpress theme. And I’m far too lazy to set up a second blog just for development. So I’m looking for a solution to work on my template without distracting visitors. I think one day I’ll write an extension that is a little more powerful than this trick, but it’s a start. (more…)