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More fun with author photos

Just because I've been playing with this, and someone else will surely find it useful... I like the Author Image plugin because it allows users to add their image directly to their profile in WP admin, rather than sending them off to Gravatar to sign up there. However, the plugin's a bit limited as to what you can output: it generates a whole img src with an attached CSS class, so if you want to use it in different sizes throughout your blog (e.g. a little clickable thumbnail linking the larger version of the photo), that's impossible to do. So I wrote a bit of PHP to go and get the ... read more

How to change the WordPress author slug

photo credit: steepwaysWhile we're on the topic of WP authors, while I was making my author profile yesterday, I wanted to change the "slug" - the bit in the URL that labels the particular author. By default, the URL of author pages ishttp://domain.com/author/slug For most users, this "slug" ... read more

How to make a WordPress profile page

If you're running a multi-author blog, you've probably thought about including biographical and contact details for each author either on the posts that they write, or on a separate profile page. Though WP admin's users section gives you plenty of options for inputting information, from a potted ... read more

Turning off WordPress syntax highlighting

When I first saw that syntax highlighting would be available with WordPress 2.8, I thought it was a great idea. If you're using the WordPress built-in editor to amend themes or plugins on your live installation, you need to get it right first time, so having the source code display in different ... read more

WordPress 2.8 bugs? Try this

photo credit: Hamed SaberIn the last few days, I've heard from a few people who've upgraded to WordPress 2.8 that they're missing some or all of the visual editor from the Add New Post page: even if the "Visual" tab is selected (not the "HTML" one), buttons are missing. People have also reported ... read more

How to change the number of posts on WordPress archive pages

We looked before at how to change the default number of posts displayed for your WordPress blog. The problem with the default is that - well - it's the default, and it applies to the home page, search results pages and archive pages equally (in most themes, anyway). What if you want a different ... read more

How to change ‘Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.’

What do you do with your readers when your blog doesn't supply what they're looking for? If you're most WordPress themes, you give them the rather ugly message, 'Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.' If you want to change this to something more friendly or useful, here's how to do it. ... read more

How to include the author’s photo in a WordPress post

If you have a multi-author blog, you may want to include a little author photograph with each post. The easiest way to do this is to use the Gravatar service: this is owned by Automattic, the people who brought us WordPress and Akismet. And you only need one line of code to add the ... read more

Twednesday : Free Twitter buttons and logos

The lovely Jane, aka eAuctionAnorak, aka my first blog sprog, aka Demon Bead Lady pointed out to me that TwitterButtons' images seem to have vanished. Shame, because they had some good ones, and auto-generating the "follow-me" code was useful. If you're now looking for a new way to link your ... read more

How to back-up your WordPress blog

photo credit: Quinn DombrowskiHaving written yesterday about backing up WordPress before an upgrade, I thought today we'd have a look at what backing up WordPress actually means. It's not necessary to back up every single file of your entire install: you need to preserve the files that are unique ... read more