If you're using a static page as your homepage, or using a home.php file to direct users to specific information for your homepage, it can be quite tricky to figure out how to make a domain.com/blog/ page show your latest posts like your index.php would. This will teach you how to easily do that using page templates with a little...

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While Wordpress Theming is fun and exciting; there are some pretty redundant tasks you go through each time when making a theme. Things like setting up the theme files (index.php, sidebar.php, style.css and so on). If you don't want to get your hands dirty with the php and xhtml that is needed when making themes there is a solution. What...

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I figured I'd post of some of the plugins that every blog should install, no matter what the subject of your blog is. These will help with Wordpress SEO and just make running your blog and managing it much easier. If you feel like I have left one off please let me know in the...

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If you want to customize your site it’s best to have things separated. The default wordpress theme comes with an archive.php that handles category, all archive, tag and author pages. So if you want your category pages to look different than the other pages you will have to separate them by creating a category.php file. Doing so is really easy...

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This tip will allow you to show all posts in a category on the same category page. This is very good for SEO as it gets rid of pagination and allows all links to point to your one page with all your content on it which keeps search engines from having to guess how to rank your separate...

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One of the most useful parts of the Wordpress platform is the ability to make use of "widgets". Widgets are little accessories that will automatically display information in "widgetized" areas of your theme. Some themes come with many widgetized areas, while other themes leave them out all together. Themes that work with widgets...

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