Published August 11, 2008 • 27 Comments • 0 Delicious Bookmarks

For web designers or other businesses alike, setting up a quality portfolio is essential. This tutorial will show you how you can use WordPress’s Link Manager to create and display your portfolio. This will allow you to use WordPress to it’s fullest extent, without the need of extra plugins or any hacked code. Step 1. [...]

Published July 30, 2008 • 2 Comments • 0 Delicious Bookmarks

Photo Credit: reportergimmi A few months ago I wrote an article on how to create a popular posts list, and in the example I used a category called ‘Popular’ to determine what was shown within the list. This approach is great for those that remember to periodically update their list by adding new posts to [...]

Published July 20, 2008 • 55 Comments • 0 Delicious Bookmarks

These are reviews based on my own evaluations of the plugins. I downloaded, installed and tested each one within a default Kubrick theme installation on WordPress 2.6. I tried to make this a complete list via the Extend Plugin Directory. I used a snippet of code from the recent post Creating a Simple Online Application [...]

Published July 18, 2008 • 1 Comment • 0 Delicious Bookmarks

Photo Credit: *dans The Flickr API is one of the most widely used APIs out there. In this article I will show you how to build your own simple online application using PHP and the Flickr API. The sample online application we build today will be one that takes a Flickr image URL (e.g. http://www.flickr.com/photos/dans180/854998249/), [...]

Published June 22, 2008 • 9 Comments • 0 Delicious Bookmarks

Photo Credit: Glockenblume Although I am certain that I am not the only one doing this, I have developed an extremely easy way to get CSS text shadows without the need to use the wildly unsupported CSS property of text-shadow. .post_title { position:relative; padding:10px 0 0 0; } .post_title h1 { position:absolute; top:2px; left:2px; font-size:30px; [...]

Published June 4, 2008 • 5 Comments • 0 Delicious Bookmarks

Photo Credit: tshein I have done many projects over the last year or so that use WordPress as the back end but not for the typical blog setup. Most websites setup like this (an example is my setup here) will feature the same design and layout thought the whole site, but the homepage will be [...]

Published May 26, 2008 • 6 Comments • 0 Delicious Bookmarks

A couple months ago I wrote up a tutorial on how to use WordPress as a Membership Directory. The problem was that the tutorial was using WordPress 2.3 and a week later version 2.5 came out. After letting WordPress, to advance to version 2.5.1, I decided to upgrade the PghDesigners.com website. To be honest, I [...]

Published May 18, 2008 • 5 Comments • 0 Delicious Bookmarks

Most of my WordPress design work has been for bloggers thus far. Designing a template for a blogger is usually straightforward and doesn’t require much WordPress hacking development work to get it what you want it to do. Most of that type of work is UI and design orientated. But what about if you are [...]