Category Archives: Tutorials

Day 23: 24 Hours of Free Lynda.com Access + The World’s Best Turkey

On this 23rd Day of WordPress I figure you are pretty well tied up in planning for the holidays and not really in the mood to get down and dirty with some hard core code examples. So I have something … Continue reading

Day 22: Custom Fonts with FontSquirrel.com

In Custom Fonts with Google Fonts I explained how to add custom fonts from the Google Font Directory to your WordPress site. The problem with the Google Font Directory is that it only has a limited (but growing) supply of … Continue reading

Day 21: Add Custom WordPress 3 Background Functionality to Your Theme

If you’ve been playing around with the twentyten theme at all you will have noticed that under Appearance you have a new function called Background. From here you can set a background colour or upload a photo to be used … Continue reading

Day 20: Using JavaScript Libraries in WordPress the Right Way

If you have worked with WordPress either as a stite owner or a developer you have likely run into situations where you add a plugin or a new theme only to find that some functions that previously work no longer … Continue reading

Day 19: Creating a Blog Within a WordPress Site

One of the great advantages of working with WordPress is that it has a blogging platform built right in. Some would argue that this is because WordPress is a blogging platform but I disagree. WordPress is a content management system … Continue reading

Day 18: Creating Custom Single Post Templates

So far in this series we’ve looked at how to creating and use Custom Page Templates and Custom Category Templates, but what about custom single post templates? As of right now, there is no built in function for creating custom … Continue reading

Day 17: Using custom category templates and query_posts

Right now I’m working on a site for a local video production company called Reeltime Videoworks. As part of the spec for the site was the ability for the owners Sue and Don to add testimonials to the site that … Continue reading

Day 16: Using custom headers, sidebars and footers

On this 16th Day of WordPress I bring you something more akin to a useage example than a tutorial. It concers the inbuilt ability in WordPress to handle multiple versions of the header.php, sidebar.php and footer.php files for customization purposes. … Continue reading

Day 15: Upgrading WordPress the manual way

This morning a friend was having serious dificulties upgrading his WordPress site from 2.something to 3.0.3. His cry for help reminded me I’ve never actually written a proper rundown on how to do WordPress upgrades the manual way, so on … Continue reading

Day 14: Posts Within Posts – Playing With The Loop

When I started 24 Days of WordPress I put out a call to my followers on Twitter and asked what they wanted me to write about. I got several responses asking for a tutorial on how to mess with the … Continue reading