June 17, 2009
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 number of posts on your archive pages to your home page? To deviate from the default, all you need... Read more
June 8, 2009
photo credit: gilleskleinWriting Taexalia's new theme this week, I needed a way to exclude posts from her home page based on tags. We didn't want Twitter archive posts to show up in the "featured" postition. Often in this kind of situation, the posts you want to exclude will be from a specific category, but this time, they weren't: they were in a category with other posts that she *would* want... Read more
April 28, 2009
Blogs traditionally have shown newest posts first: that ease of finding what's new is arguably what's made them so popular with both writers and readers. But there are times when you'll want to list posts in the other order: oldest first. If you're using WordPress as a content management system and building content in categories, your first post might be the most important, so you'll want it at... Read more