November 25, 2009
You’ll often want to write styles specifically for the home page, category pages, or some other type of page not covered by the default thesis classes. This quick tip will help you add classes to the body tag.
November 16, 2009
For Christmas, I’ll be redesigning a website for free! I’m calling it “WordPress for Clunkers”
October 14, 2009
There are many plugins that let you pull in posts from an RSS feed. But if you want to show them WITHOUT filling up your database, this is your solution.
August 26, 2009
This is a very elegant solution to the problem of having multiple content areas on a single page. It uses headlines to identify the different blocks of content.
August 2, 2009
Additional sidebars allow you to easily manage content that doesn’t fit in a post or page. I’ll outline how to implement them using Thesis, but you could also do this with any Wordpress theme.
July 26, 2009
As I’ve been working with Thesis a lot lately, I thought it would be a good idea to start posting some tips for customizing it. This post covers customizing post image/thumbnails and displaying category posts on pages.
July 6, 2009
These are notes from a presentation by Matt Cutts (from Google) on optimizing your Wordpress site. While Wordpress already takes care of most SEO issues, there are a few things you can do to improve it. But remember the 80/20 rule: 80% of SEO is writing compelling content for your readers. The other 20% is simple optimizations of that content.
June 15, 2009
This is a more technical post than usual. I outline how to quickly build a Contact Form for Wordpress (or any other site).
