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
June 27, 2009
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 colours should help avoid mistakes, right? Except it turns out - frankly - to be a complete pain.... Read more
June 13, 2009
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. Firstly, find the file you want to edit. For most people, this will be the one that generates search... Read more