Category Archives: Theme Tips

How To Add Gravatars For The Post Author in WordPress

Now that Gravatar support is part of the WordPress core adding them into your WordPress theme is easy. Adding them to your comments has been documented. How about adding them to your post titles to highlight the comment author? Within the loop? That’s fairly easy too. Here’s the code:
<?php echo get_avatar( get_the_author_email(), ‘80’ ); ?>
Pretty simple, huh? […]

How To Build WP-PageNavi Into Your WordPress Theme

WP-PageNavi, from Lester “GaMerZ” Chan, gives you an awesome upgrade to your WordPress post-page navigation. Instead of the typical “Older Post/Newer Post” links, you get “Digg-like” pagination. Like so:

Very cool. But what if you want to incorporate it into a WordPress theme for release? How do you style it when the instructions tell you to modify […]

A Proposal for Theme Management in WordPress

The handling of plugins in WordPress 2.5 is perfect. It’s superb. It’s easy. It’s cake. But now that I have cake, you know, I want to eat it too. I’ve got a proposal for how upgrading of themes should be handled in WordPress 2.6 (or whenever) using a .org theme repository. Maybe more like a […]

A Better Spot for The WordPress Meta

One of the first things many new blog owners do is remove the Meta section from their sidebars. Great idea. The Meta information is almost completely useless. And I’m not the only one that thinks so.
The Meta section includes some admin links like “Login” or “XHTML Valid.” While those links might be useful for the owner […]

How To Add Prologue-Theme Posting To Your WordPress Theme—in 2 minutes

Did you know you can add a quick post section for logged in users to your WordPress Theme? Just like the Prologue Theme? Yep, in about two minutes. Ready? Start the clock.
First, download the latest version of Prologue.
Secondly, copy over post-form.php into your current template directory. If you’re using the default theme (like I am for this […]

Developing Themes: Drupal Compared With WordPress, First Impressions

I love WordPress, let me get that out of the way at the beginning. But Drupal is really powerful. And terribly exciting—you can do so much with it! But I only like Drupal. Bit of a difference.
I’ll let that serve as introduction to letting you know that I have two projects that will require Drupal as […]

Use WordPress As a CMS: Plugins, The Bare Minimum

How to use WordPress as a CMS is a popular question. Especially when you want to quickly throw up what is sometimes called “The Brochure Site”. Yep, that hoary throwback to Web 1.0, the static site. You’re going to template the site in PHP anyway, right? Why not just use WordPress and give your client […]