Developing Themes for WordPress: Part 4
When you develop a theme for WordPress, you should consider giving your users a few customizable options so they can easily modify certain elements to their liking. Simple and easy-to-use…
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Developing Themes for WordPress: Part 3
If you’ve already gone through the first two parts of this series, you are well on your way to putting together a WordPress theme. It might seem a little daunting…
Developing Themes for WordPress: Part 2
In my last post, I tried to point you to the most important pages in the WordPress codex to get you moving in the right direction with developing your theme.…
Developing Themes for WordPress: Part 1
Over the weekend, I gave a presentation on developing WordPress themes for fun and profit. It went really well and I thought it would be a good idea to go…
Optimization Tips to Speed Up Your Site
Ever since Google announced that a site’s speed would be a major factor in its ranking, I have really been paying attention to how my site performs. I guess I…
Create bit.ly Short URLs for your Posts in WordPress
I have been working with the http://bit.ly API and decided to change the short URLs on my site to include the short URLs provided by http://bit.ly. The API is pretty…
Optimizing your MySQL Database
I run my Web sites on a dedicated virtual server and every once in a while, I need to go in and optimize things to make sure everything runs smoothly.…
How to Draw a Smiley Face with CSS3
I was messing around with CSS3 gradients, rounded corners and shadows, and I thought to myself, “I wonder if I can draw something that actually looks like something?” Lo and…
Use jQuery to Replace a Word with a Link
If you use a word multiple times on your site and you don’t feel like going through all your posts to replace every instance of it, you can use jQuery…
A Simple CSS Trick to Vertically Align Text
I was trying to vertically align text within a div container and it just wasn’t working for me. You would think that using vertical-align in your CSS would accomplish just…