Exclude Categories from your RSS Feed in WordPress
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…
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Using :target to Create a Lightbox Effect with CSS3
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
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
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
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
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
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
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…
Adding an Inset Shadow to an Image Using CSS3
Yesterday PressWork launched a new theme in conjunction with Empire Avenue. The original design had a really nice shadow effect on the images and I wanted to make sure that…
Create a Black & White Thumbnail in WordPress
A while back I worked on a site that required a hover effect where a black and white image faded into a color image. I wrote a tutorial called Creating…