May 5, 2009
Another Google-inspired quickie. 
If you have a theme that normally shows full posts on the front page and archive pages, sometimes you'll want to change that behaviour just for a single post: perhaps it's just too long for the front page, perhaps it's got material in it that you want to warn people about before it's suddenly in their face, perhaps a cliffhanger-style cut suits the style of... Read more
May 4, 2009
Here's an easy one (though judging by the number of Google searches that end up here, it's something lots of people are having problems with) - sign into your WordPress admin panel go to Settings > Reading look for the box that says "Blog pages show at most" change the number to the number you want This setting normally (depending on how your theme's set up) affects your home page,... Read more
May 3, 2009
I had a little argument with someone last week. WordPress is, they said, a pile of rubbish. They'd spent an hour typing up a post and WP refused to publish it! Or rather, it said it had published it, but it refused to show up on the front page except as a link in the sidebar. That sidebar link was the easy clue: what they'd written was a page, not a post. And their response, quite rightly, was... Read more