WordPress
These articles show you how to install, configure, optimize, and extend the popular WordPress blogging platform. They also feature collections of useful plugins, great looking themes and guides to making your own.
The WordPress template tag the_excerpt and get_the_excerpt are great for showing a short summary of a post, in fact, this paragraph is the excerpt for this post.
Wordpress 2.7 introduced paged comments out the box, however, you will probably be wanting to prevent search engines from indexing these pages to prevent duplicate content. You may also just wish to determine if a user is viewing a paged comments.
We all know that it is good to have links posts and categories throughout your site, but maintaining hard coded links can be a pain, especially when things like permalink structure or domain name change. These two functions will allow you to create flexible dynamic links in your posts or pages.
This is a collection of extremely useful functions for working with Wordpress categories. Get parent category, and detect if current category is a subcategory or child category of the specified.
A quick tip for customising the default Gravatars in Wordpress 2.7 now they took away the get_avatar function. Use this filter instead; it's a much better way!
Web hosting (sometimes referred to as 'web space') is a service which allows you to upload your own files and site to a shared server in a data centre. Once uploaded, your website can be seen by anyone who is connected to the Internet.
Wordpress is famous for its 5-minute install, but for those who have never installed web software before, I will show you how to download, install, configure and write your first Wordpress blog on your web server. You do not need any knowledge of PHP or any other programming language.
Once you have a web server or hosting package, you will need to register a domain name. In this tutorial I will give you some great tips on choosing a domain name, guide you through the registration process and how to link your domain to your website.
A list of my top 10 essential WordPress plugins, covering SEO, statistics, design, widgets and usability. These plugins are used on all my blogs and websites and are highly recommended.
I have recently discovered a method by which I can reduce my overall monthly bandwidth for this website by 500MB. Using the same technique I have reduced the bandwidth on another of my sites by 3500GB.
