June 28, 2009
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... Read more
June 28, 2009
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" is set to the user name: while you can't change a user name, you might very well want to change the... Read more
June 27, 2009
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 life-story to your AIM handle, most themes don't take advantage of this. So today, we're going to look... Read more
May 2, 2009
WordPress doesn't just publish the all-posts feed: in fact, it automatically publishes feeds to just about everything on your blog. Below are a few examples; I've included both the URL and the code to automatically generate the relevent link; after all, the feed's no use if your readers can't find it. URLs given assume you've set up pretty permalinks in Settings > Reading. Edit the bits in... Read more