Archive for the ‘WordPress’ Category

Why You Should Invest Your Time or Money For A Custom Wordpress Theme

Posted on 2008 08, 14 by Brad

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or via Email. Thanks for visiting! The author of this post is Brad. He runs a personal blog at http://bradblogging.com that focuses on personal blog tips and blog help and only original content is presented to the readers. You can subscribe [...]

Image Caption Not Working? The CSS Solution

Posted on 2008 08, 11 by Yan

You have probably known by now that one of the latest addition to WP 2.6 - among other great features - is the Image Caption - a little description of the image derived from the ALT text.
The theory is ALT text to your image is what you describe the image to the Search Engines. For [...]

5 Possible Ways to Speed Up Your Blog

Posted on 2008 07, 18 by Yan

Does your blog load as quickly as you — and your users — would like? or does it take ages to load? Have you ever got frustrated waiting for a slow and sluggish site to load a single page?
In this respect, “first impression really counts”. That’s why it’s important to make sure that your site [...]

WordPress Template Tag

Posted on 2008 07, 14 by Yan

What is a Template Tag? It is a php tag used within your blog’s Templates to display information dynamically.
Say you want to display the recent 10 posts on your sidebar, you probably need the following tag
<? php wp_get_archives(’10′); ?>
where 10 is the no. of posts to display.
Now have you ever got yourself lost while searching [...]

I Guess This Is When I Say “Thank You”

Posted on 2008 06, 27 by Yan

Today is exactly 2 months I have been blogging. A little more than 60 days from its conception to writing my very first post. It hasn’t been really an easy journey during this probational period. It is that much harder when writing has never been my forte.
As such I won’t admit that I have passed [...]

My Experimentation With MiniPost

Posted on 2008 06, 15 by Yan

Inspired by AdesBlog.com, I have decided to experiment with MiniPost on my blog, sort of like mini Blog or short posts that live outside of the usual hierarchy of normal postings. They are usually displayed differently from normal posts, and are occasionally placed on a different part of the blog and yet still fall into [...]

How To Keep Your Commentators Coming Back

Posted on 2008 06, 03 by Yan

As we all know it, one of the best source of traffic is by commenting on other blogs. Not only commenting keeps you engaged in the conversation, more importantly it helps you to get noticed which is important when your blog is fresh.
Now the thing is, how do you keep track of which blogs you [...]

Probably One Of The Nicest Firefox Plugin You’ll Find

Posted on 2008 05, 31 by Yan

Probably one of the nicest Firefox Plugin I have just discovered and got my attention is Hyperwords. It is a nifty Firefox plugin you’d not want to miss. It does much more than the conventional Firefox tool we’ve come to know. Hyperwords makes any website interactive and enhances users browsing experience to next level.
From Hyperlinks [...]

10 Minimalist WordPress Themes You’ll Love

Posted on 2008 05, 24 by Yan

Jonas Bonér wrote a very nice article on The Art of Minimalistic Design. Let me quote his thought of what minimalism is, “…where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features and core self expression”.
I love minimalist design for its sheer simplicity. Minimalism does away the unnecessary frills and presenting a user-interface that [...]

How To Enable Gravatar On Your Blog Without Plugin

Posted on 2008 05, 17 by Yan

Do you know WordPress 2.5 has a built-in Gravatar feature? Have you tried to enable it and still no picture of you appearing beside your name or your commentator’s name? Well, I ditched it altogether and instead I place a code into my comment section without even enabling it in the first place. And I [...]