WordPress How To

I`m sure that you already heard  about Microsoft`s Word 2010 amazing feature, which is, of course, the ability to take screenshots and paste them directly into you documents, but do you really know how to use it? If, you don`t, then you should fallow this short tutorial, which I can assure you that will definitely [...]

Some people might want to only register some specific sidebars on the Wordpress blog’s frontpage, category page, tag page, single post or single page. Fortunately, this is now possible thanks to Chris, who wrote a simple piece of code that does it’s job exactly as it should.
Check out the piece of code and let me [...]

It sometimes happens that the is_home() and is_archive() functions stop working in some Wordpress installs, so you can’t make use of them anymore. It has happened to me a few times and I’ve had a hard time replacing them with more complicated code. Fortunately, there’s one simple solution for this problem.
If calling is_home() or is_archive() [...]

If you’re like me and don’t like installing one more plugin for everything you need on your Wordpress installation, then here’s a solution for you if you want to integrate a Flickr gallery on your blog. Of course Wordpress plugins are great, but there are a lot of things that can be done without them. [...]

If you write a blog, it’s only natural that you both love and respect your RSS subscribers. But there are times when you publish a post just before you find out that you made an error that you don’t want your RSS subscribers to see. Unfortunately, under normal circumstances, once you hit that pesky little [...]

Wordpress is one of those small things that work behind the scene to provide the means for a proper development of the bigger picture. If you are using wordpress for your blog, you definitely know what I mean.
One feature that makes wordpress really great is that you can install and use almost every plug-in you [...]

If you are writing a blog hosted on Wordpress.com, you no longer need to turn to an URL shortening service to get a short URL for an article. WordPress has added their own shortening service directly on the page where you add your new posts. The service uses http://WP.me to shorten the URL address of [...]

Wordpress 2.8 has just been released and there aren’t too many plugins compatible with it yet, so we made a list to help you know if your plugins are already compatible, so you can upgrade to the new version.
Here they are:

Actionable 0.8.3 or newer
Add to Any Share/Bookmark/Email Button 0.9 +
Add to Any Subscribe Button 0.9 [...]

I told you how to get the post id in single post inside and outside the loop, but maybe you need to get it in footer, header, sidebar or other theme file and you will need to use the wp_query function.
The the_ID() and $post->ID functions only work in the single post template, so if you [...]

WordPress uses an identifier for each post that can be returned as the post ID. While inside the post’s loop, there is a specific template tag to get the post ID, but don’t work anymore when outside the loop.
If you don’t know where the loop starts and ends, look for the following codes:
Loop start:
if ( [...]