Below you will find a list of entries that have been filed under the category ‘ WordPress ’ . You can also visit the complete archives page for a listing of every entry that has been written for the Big Square Blog.
Make Your WordPress Post Dates Look Awesome With Images And PHP
It’s no secret that web typography sucks, which is why some of the most aesthetically appealing websites rely on images to replace blocks of text inside of their layouts. Various techniques can be used to replace text with images, from simply including an IMG tag inside of a web page’s HTML to employing more advanced methods like CSS DIV tags and PHP.
How To Go Down In Style While Getting Your WordPress Blog Dugg, Reddited, Slashdotted, or Farked.
For the sake of your visitors and the seamless appearance of your website, make these very small alterations to your ‘wp-db.php’ file and create a snazzy error page that contains more valuable information to your visitors than “error establishing a database connection�, care of WordPress.
A (Smarter) Solution for Displaying WordPress Entries on ANY Part of Your Website
I knew there had to be a better way of including part of my WordPress blog on my static front page, and today it struck me. “Instead of calling on WordPress template tags to execute very simple PHP/MySQL functions on my front page,� I told myself, “I should treat my WordPress database like what it is: a database!�
Skin Your WordPress Login Page in Order to Achieve a More Consistent and Professional Looking Blog
You’ve spent weeks or days designing and coding a new WordPress powered website for a client and all seems swell. Your newly designed blog is looking snazzy, your client loves the look and feel of her new website, and you’re just about ready to move on to your next project. Then it happens.
How to Get Rid of WordPress’ Pesky get_the_url Problem
A few days ago I introduced a method by which multiple authors in a WordPress blog can have their photos automatically generated next to each of their published blog entries. Today I want to go a step further and delve into an issue that I ran into while designing another blog that is primarily written by one person and contributed to by various guest authors from time to time.
How to Automatically Generate Author Photos for WordPress Blog Entries
Until the developers at WordPress come up with another way to manage multiple author photos, the above solution should work just fine. Because there are already predefined WordPress template tags for the first and last names of each user, the nickname field can become somewhat of a free for all to fit whatever additional needs that you may have when it comes to online publishing.
Random Header Images For Your Blog Using DIVs and PHP
What this tiny bit of powerful CSS and PHP do is make a random header image possible without having to worry about random header images being displayed in CSS-incompatible browsers or printers. It is similar to Chris Pearsons’ method but this time around it uses the DIV tag and not an image tag, which I only want to use inside of blog entries.
How to add a WordPress Mini-Loop to your static front page.
When I decided to make Big Square Dot a part static, part dynamic website, I was at a loss as to how I would go about incorporating my latest blog entry into the home page of Big Square Dot. I did not want to install WordPress into the root directory of www.bigsquaredot.com because I am all about organization and don’t much enjoy the sight of ‘wp-’ files littering my domain’s root folder.