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How to Use WordPress Conditional Statements

October 22, 2009

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When I’m creating a Wordpress website, often times I’ll want a certain image, or a certain snippet of text, to appear on a particular page, but not on any others. How do you do that without creating multiple page or post templates? It’s quite simple actually: use conditional statements. Continue reading

Create Single Post Pages for Different Categories

July 14, 2009

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Say you have a lot of categories and posts on your Wordpress website, and want to have different single post pages for each category. How would you make this happen? It’s pretty simple actually – here’s how. Continue reading

Ways to Create Breadcrumbs in WordPress

April 29, 2009

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WordPress doesn’t have a default way of creating breadcrumbs, so when you’re designing a website in it, you have to include them on your own, either by adding some code to your theme’s files or by using a plugin. Here … Continue reading

Customizing the WordPress Login Screen

March 24, 2009

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When you’re building a website in WordPress, you can customize just about anything – and the login screen is no exception to that. It doesn’t take much time to do, and it’s one of those little touches that are a … Continue reading

Style Your Form Fields with Icons to Improve Usability

March 16, 2009

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From a usability standpoint, long forms with plain-text labels can be quite boring visually. One way to avoid this problem is to use icons within your input fields to visually indicate what the field is asking for. It’s a nice … Continue reading

Upgrading Your Comments Area in WordPress 2.7

March 5, 2009

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Bloggers know that commenting is vital for the long-term success of their blog, and I’m no exception to that. I’ve known that the comments area of my blog wasn’t as supportive of good commenting as it should have been, but … Continue reading