Tutorials

One of my favorite WordPress template features is the ability to customize category templates to cater specific categories of your choice. Here’s my default category template. It simply displays excerpts: Here’s my customize category template for category ID #2. This one is actually a theme gallery template: So, how do you manipulate category templates? Simple, duplicate […]

WP-Sticky is a plugin by Lester Chan, used to sticky blog posts that you want more attention for. If you sticky a post, it’ll stay at the top of your blog page, regardless of its published date. That is especially useful if you publish multiple times per day with the need to feature one important post. You could simply […]

Skip the login page. Want to log in through the front page? If yes then this tutorial is perfect for you. First, let’s see how it actually looks like. I tested it with my Lust WordPress theme on two local WordPress installs, version 2.1 and 2.2. Here’s the login form in the sidebar: Here’s the message after […]

Now we are going to get into the really exciting things that can be done with custom fields! If you haven’t already taken a look at Part One, give it a quick read to bring yourself up to date with the rest of us. In this post (and the posts to come!) we are going to […]

Custom fields offer a lot of flexibility for WordPress users. And the flexibility goes well beyond posting the status of your current mood or the latest book you are reading. Over a course of a number of posts, we are going to take a look at what can be done with custom fields. (which is […]

In my previous post, the question came about if posts can be styled for a specific category. Well, you’ll be happy to know that they can be by using the get_the_category tag. This handy tag can be used in a function, within The Loop, that allows you to do a few useful tricks. Before we get started […]