Add Class to All Excerpts in WordPress
March 26, 2012
Mar 26 2012
In WordPress, the post excerpt can be displayed using a function called the_excerpt(). This function has no parameters but it does have some filters which you can hook into. I…
Redirect After Adding a New User in WordPress
March 7, 2012
Mar 07 2012
Since the release of WordPress 3.3, I noticed something that was overlooked when adding a new user in the wp-admin. Before, adding a new user would redirect to a list…
Exclude Categories from your RSS Feed in WordPress
February 24, 2012
Feb 24 2012
I had someone ask me how to do this the other day and I didn’t know how. But after reading through some of the WordPress Codex I was able to…
Using :target to Create a Lightbox Effect with CSS3
February 7, 2012
Feb 07 2012
If you’ve messed around with CSS3 you have probably seen some of the new pseudo classes pop up here and there. An interesting one that I just started to use…
Increase Max Upload File Size in WordPress
January 17, 2012
Jan 17 2012
Sometimes, you need to upload a large file to your site, and the default 8mb limit in WordPress isn’t enough. I attempted to change my limit directly on my server,…
Shortcode to Encode Email in WordPress Posts
January 11, 2012
Jan 11 2012
A while back I wrote a short tutorial entitled “A Clever and Safe Way to Display your Email Address” which explained how you could use CSS to safely display your…
Log in to WordPress using an Email Address
December 28, 2011
Dec 28 2011
I needed to figure out how to allow a user to use either their username or email address to log into WordPress. It took a bit of rooting around but…
HTML5 Placeholder jQuery Fix
November 20, 2011
Nov 20 2011
I was working with placeholder text for the input fields on a recent project and I needed to make sure that the text would appear in all browsers. I had…
A Better Voting System for WordPress
October 24, 2011
Oct 24 2011
I published a tutorial quite a while back called Simple Voting for WordPress with PHP and jQuery. It was not without its problems, and recently I needed to improve on…
An Even Better Author List in WordPress
September 30, 2011
Sep 30 2011
I already wrote about this a while back in “How to Display an Author List with Avatars in WordPress” but I recently realized that it needed updating. There’s a better…