How To Create A Dynamic Portfolio in WordPress Using Categories
There are plenty of portfolio themes for sale out there, but many just don’t have “it” as far as the certain design element you’re looking for in your portfolio. Sometimes it’s just better to design one yourself. But what if you want to put it in WordPress and make your portfolio a little easier to...
Read more…10 Essential Plugins Every WordPress Blog Should Have
WordPress is known for being one of the most powerful open-source blogging platforms today. Not only does it work great for blogs–it also functions as a regular content management system, which also makes WordPress one of the most popular platforms. One of the reasons that makes WordPress so popular is the free plugin community. Plugins...
Read more…Using WordPress As a CMS for Non-Blog Sites
When WordPress first premiered several years ago, it was mainly for blog based sites with simple template changes. Now the WordPress platform is used from everything be it a blog, a normal site or even a eCommerce site. Many clients are still in the mindset that WordPress has to be used for blog sites, and...
Read more…5 Ways To Use RSS Feeds That Aren't For Subscribing
With Feedburner’s BuzzBoost feature, you can turn any RSS feed into a neat auto-updating feature on your site. I use it for both my latest blog articles on my non-Wordpress based homepage and for all three of my Goodreads‘ book shelves you see to the right. Anything that has a feed to it can be...
Read more…WordPress Gravatars: Changing Sizes & Adding Author Photos
Lately, I’ve come across multiple instances of needing to do something different with the default Gravatars on WordPress. There isn’t a lot of documentation out there and it took me a while to figure out how to do some of these, so I thought I’d make it easy for you by showing you how to...
Read more…A Step-by-Step Guide For Moving WordPress From One Site To Another
For some reason, moving WordPress can actually be harder than developing for WordPress. I never noticed this before, because I had either developed directly on the client’s server, or had only worked with the basic skinning and CSS of WordPress itself. However, when you start majorly developing for WordPress; i.e. custom functions, changing the structures...
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