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WordPress Theme Hacks

WordPress was originally created as a weblog or blog platform. But now WordPress has grown so powerful that you can use it to create any type of website and use it as a Content Management System (CMS). In this article, I’m going to share some of my WordPress tricks with you on how to make a better WordPress theme. I’m not a programmer nor developer, so I will focus more on the frontend development. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that WordPress has made it so easy that even a non-programmer (designer like me) can build a wonderful website. My WordPress sites included: N.Design Studio, Best Web Gallery, Web Designer Wall, and some free WordPress Themes.

WordPress Conditional Tags

Conditional Tags are very useful when creating a dynamic WordPress theme. It allows you to control what content is displayed and how that content is displayed. Here are couple sample uses of Conditional Tags:

Dynamic Highlight Menu

Here is what I used to create a dynamic highlight menu on Best Web Gallery. In the first list item, if it is Home or Category or Archive or Search or Single, add class="current" to the <li> tag, which will highlight the "Gallery" button. Second item, if it is page with Page Slug "about", add class="current".

<ul id="nav">
  <li<?php if ( is_home() || is_category() || is_archive() || is_search() || is_single() || is_date() ) { echo ' class="current"'; } ?>><a href="#">Gallery</a></li>
  <li<?php if ( is_page('about') ) { echo ' class="current"'; } ?>><a href="#">About</a></li>
  <li<?php if ( is_page('submit') ) { echo ' class="current"'; } ?>><a href="#">Submit</a></li>
</ul>

Dynamic Title tag

Again, I use Conditational Tags to output dynamic <title> tag in the header.php.

<title>
<?php
if (is_home()) {
	echo bloginfo('name');
} elseif (is_404()) {
	echo '404 Not Found';
} elseif (is_category()) {
	echo 'Category:'; wp_title('');
} elseif (is_search()) {
	echo 'Search Results';
} elseif ( is_day() || is_month() || is_year() ) {
	echo 'Archives:'; wp_title('');
} else {
	echo wp_title('');
}
?>
</title>

Dynamic Content

If you want to include a file that will only appear on the frontpage, here is the code:

<?php if ( is_home() ) { include ('file.php'); } ?>

Feature post highlighting

Let’s say categoryID 2 is your Feature category and you want to add a CSS class to highlight all posts that are in Feature, you can use the following snippet in The Loop.

<?php if ( in_category('2') ) { echo ('class="feature"'); } ?>

Unique Single template

Suppose you want to use different Single template to display individual post in certain category. You can use the in_category to check what category is the post stored in and then use different Single template. In your default single.php, enter the code below. If the post is in category 1, use single1.php, elseif in category 2, use single2.php, otherwise use single_other.php.

<?php
  $post = $wp_query- >post;

  if ( in_category('1') ) {
  include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/single1.php');

  } elseif ( in_category('2') ) {
  include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/single2.php');

  } else {
  include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/single_other.php');

  }
? >

Unique Category template

Suppose you want to use different Category template to display specific category. Simply save your Category template as category-2.php (note: add “-” and the categoryID number to the file name). So, category-2.php will be used to display categoryID 2, category-3.php will be used for categoryID 3, and so on.

Display Google Ad after the first post

A lot of people have asked me for this. How to display a Google ad after the first post? It is very simple. You just need to add a variable ($loopcounter) in The Loop. If the $loopcounter is less than or equal to 1, then include google-ad.php code.

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); $loopcounter++; ?>

  // the loop stuffs

  <?php if ($loopcounter <= 1) { include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/ad.php'); } ?>

<?php endwhile; ?>

<?php else : ?>

<?php endif; ?>

Query Posts

You can use query_posts to control which posts to show up in The Loop. It allows you to control what content to display, where to display, and how to display it. You can query or exclude specific categories, so you get full control of it. Here I will show you how to use query_posts to display a list of Latest Posts, Feature Posts, and how to exclude specific category.

Display Latest Posts

The following code will output the 5 latest posts in a list:

<?php query_posts('showposts=5'); ?>

<ul>
  <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
  <li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
  <?php endwhile;?>
</ul>

Display Feature Posts

Let’s say categoryID 2 is your Feature category and you want to display 5 Feature posts in the sidebar, put this in your sidebar.php:

<?php query_posts('cat=2&showposts=5'); ?>

<ul>
  <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
  <li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
  <?php endwhile;?>
</ul>

Exclude specific category

You can also use query_posts to exclude specific category being displayed. The following code will exclude all posts in categoryID 2 (note: there is a minus sign before the ID number):

<?php query_posts('cat=-2'); ?>

<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
  //the loop here
<?php endwhile;?>

Tips: you can overwrite the posts per page setting by using posts_per_page parameter (ie. <?php query_posts('posts_per_page=6'); ?>)

Custom Fields

Custom field is one the most powerful WordPress features. It allows you to attach extra data or text to the post along with the content and excerpt. With Custom Fields, you can literally trun a WordPress into any web portal CMS. On Web Designer Wall, I use Custom Field to display the article image and link it to the post.

First add the Custom Field in the post.

custom fields

To display the article image and attach it with the post link, put the following code in The Loop:

<?php //get article_image (custom field) ?>
<?php $image = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'article_image', true); ?>

<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><img src="<?php echo $image; ?>" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" /></a>

Tips: don’t forget WordPress allows you to create/store multi keys and the keys can be used more than once per post.

I used the same methodology and created a very dynamic template at Best Web Gallery, where I used Custom Fields to display the site thumbnail, tooltip image, and URL.

WP List Pages

Template tag wp_list_pages is commonly used to display a list of WP Pages in the header and sidebar for navigation purpose. Here I will show you how to use wp_list_pages to display a sitemap and sub-menu.

Site map

To generate a sitemap (sample) of all your Pages, put this code in your sitemap Page Template (note: I exclude pageID 12 because page12 is my sitemap page and I don’t want to show it):

<ul>
  <?php wp_list_pages('exclude=12&title_li=' ); ?>
</ul>

Dynamic Subpage Menu

Put this in your sidebar.php and it will output a subpage menu if there are subpages of the current page:

<?php
$children = wp_list_pages('title_li=&child_of='.$post->ID.'&echo=0');
if ($children) { ?>

<ul>
  <?php echo $children; ?>
</ul>
<?php } ?>

Page Template

If you are using WordPress as a basic webpage management, you better don’t miss out the Page Template feature. It allows you to customize how the Pages should be displayed. To use Page Template, first you need to create a Page Template, then you can assign the Page to specific template.

Here is how the Page Template structured (ie. portfolio.php):

<?php
/*
Template Name: Portfolio
*/
?>

<?php get_header(); ?>
  //the loop here
<?php get_footer(); ?>

When you are writing or editing a page, look on the right tab “Page Template” and you should see the available templates.

page template

WordPress Options

There are many built-in options in the Admin panels that can make your site much nicer. Here are some of them:

Custom Frontpage

By default, WordPress displays your blog posts on the frontpage. But if you want to have a static page (ie. welcome or splash page) instead, you can set that in Admin > Options > Reading.

frontpage setting

Permalinks

Default WordPress uses www.yoursite.com/?p=123 for your post URLs, which is not URL nor search engine friendly. You can change the Permalinks setting through Admin > Options > Permalinks. Personally, I like to set the Permalinks to: /%category%/%postname%/

permalinks

Category prefix

Default WordPress category prefix is "category" (ie. yoursite.com/category/cat-name/). By entering "article" in the Category base (Options > Permalinks), your category URLs will become: yoursite.com/article/cat-name/

category prefix

Want more?

WordPress Codex is always the best place to learn about WordPress. Thank you WordPress and happy blogging!

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Comments

There are 433 comments (+Add)

1 Dan http://www.dotblue.ca
October 15th, 2007 at 12:38 am

Great article, just had a quick read! Would love to see even more tutorials like this, as there are so few out there!
2 Florian Weich http://www.centerxmovies.de
October 15th, 2007 at 1:48 am

That’s a cool tutorial! I started to setup a new homepage with Wordpress only a few hours ago and your tips are coming just at the right moment. Thanks!
3 Arctic http://hellobmw.com
October 15th, 2007 at 1:51 am

An excellent tutorial! Would you mind if I translated it into Chinese on my blog? Of course I will give the original URL. Thank you very much.
4 Squawk http://www.squawkdesign.com
October 15th, 2007 at 1:52 am

It’s a shame that I am not using Wordpress anymore. But thanks anyway, this was the kind of tutorial that I was missing when I started using Wordpress. May it be of help to many newbies like me.
5 Meaz
October 15th, 2007 at 2:21 am

i’m starting my wordpress website and this is very useful !

i have been watching you guys for few days now , u are the best really
6 Leo http://webcmsdesign.com
October 15th, 2007 at 3:07 am

Hi Nick!

Very good tipps, thanks for them! I’ve found an another genius simple tipp at http://themeplayground.com/order-your-pages.

A question:
Your HTML/PHP snippets look pretty good. How do you generate the code: do you type span tags and CSS classes into the code or do you use a wp-plugin or similar?

with best regards
Leo
7 RUDE http://rudeworks.com/
October 15th, 2007 at 3:47 am

Great post!

BTW, one thing I don’t like about custom fields is that is so dificult to include them into feeds (for me, a non-developer like you). If you find a solution… please let us know!
8 koan http://fabien.wordpress.com
October 15th, 2007 at 4:41 am

This is one of the most useful WP article I’ve ever seen. I’ll give it a try asap! Thanks a lot!!!
9 RaymaN http://blog.websenat.de/
October 15th, 2007 at 5:52 am

Thanks. Useful article!
10 Nikos Psy2k http://blog.typpz.com
October 15th, 2007 at 7:24 am

Very usefull article again! Keep on with providing great stuff! Worts a digg, so I dugg it
11 Giancarlo.D http://www.giancarlo-design.hlfusion.net/journal/
October 15th, 2007 at 8:05 am

Another very useful tutorial for Wordpress by Nick. Great job man. Thanks for sharing it.
12 Eric http://www.sans-concept.com
October 15th, 2007 at 9:20 am

Excellent article! Really useful of use wanna-be coder designers.
13 Mindy http://www.ourfixerupper.com
October 15th, 2007 at 10:31 am

I work for a University, and we use it as a “poor man’s CMS”. So far, we haven’t found any challenge we can’t find a solution for somewhere since there are so many plugins and extensions available. I didn’t know any PHP when I started using WordPress but have since been able to cut/paste/alter to do some very crazy things!

A few of our sites running on WP:
http://commencement.syr.edu
http://sia.syr.edu (in development)
14 Tim
October 15th, 2007 at 10:48 am

This is great. I have a couple sites that are going to really benefit from this.
15 Master Employment http://www.masteremployment.com
October 15th, 2007 at 11:08 am

Interesting article, and nice site. I like the design. I totally agree that WordPress can be used to produce Content Management System. But in order to build more complicated web site I would recommend Joomla as a CMS.
16 AirDig http://www.airdig.com/
October 15th, 2007 at 11:45 am

Great collection. Thanks for sharing all these snippets.
17 ocube http://www.ocube.co.uk
October 15th, 2007 at 12:07 pm

Ive been looking to get into wordpress but have been put off by the backend stuff. Hope this will be the start of great things to come. Will let you know how I get on, thanks
18 Nguyet http://www.newwaydesign.com
October 15th, 2007 at 12:22 pm

exactly what I’ve been dying to see! Thank you thank you!

Love your site, btw.
19 Gilbert Pellegrom http://www.gilbertpellegrom.co.uk
October 15th, 2007 at 12:30 pm

Wow thats good. When I started reading this post I thought “bet I already know this stuff” as I have been using Wordpress for years. But I must say there are a few things in there that are totally new to me. Thanks a lot.
20 Nick http://everlong.zxq.net
October 15th, 2007 at 2:13 pm

This is a very nice post. I’ve been working on WordPress themes and when I’m making mine I have to have multiple WordPress codex windows open so I can look up features. Now that it’s all listed on one page, it will be a lot easier and faster to make WordPress themes.
21 Deaf Musician http://deafmusician.com
October 15th, 2007 at 2:47 pm

That is the most useful article ever written about wordpress themes!!! Thanks, Nick!!!!
22 Elliott
October 15th, 2007 at 3:15 pm

Nice guide and update, Nick! Oh and btw, bestwebgallery.com has a problem :s Don’t know if you know about it or not.
23 Alex http://www.makesitgood.net
October 15th, 2007 at 4:59 pm

Really brilliant, thanks. Wish this had been posted about two weeks ago when I had to dig and find a lot of this out without any good resource for it!

Still, plenty of stuff I haven’t used yet here!
24 AskApache http://www.askapache.com/wordpress/what-is-this-plugin.html
October 15th, 2007 at 6:01 pm

Wow there is some great tips here! I’m definately going to use this to test the new conditional testing plugin: WhatIsThis

Thanks for all the hacks!
25 Komsan Kramer http://pursefighter.com
October 15th, 2007 at 6:55 pm

Hey, I just created a wordpress website myself! This is such a great resource! My only question, I would really love to know how you created the buttons on your right hand toolbar that navigates you to a different page with all the posts on a certain category… if you could explain that I would be eternally in your debt!
26 Pablo http://www.pablosavard.com
October 15th, 2007 at 6:59 pm

Great site, some nice eye candy and yet very simple. I will spend some time on this page to learn from these nice tutorials.

Thanks for everything, keep on the good job.
27 webtuga http://www.webtuga.com
October 15th, 2007 at 7:15 pm

Great Post!
I will need that to create my personal theme.
28 Thássius http://www.memoriasfracas.com
October 15th, 2007 at 8:01 pm

These tips are simply fantastic.
Thanks a lot!
29 Keith http://www.neohide.com
October 15th, 2007 at 8:30 pm

Looks excellent. I have a blog set up aside for an official NeoHide Site, which I won’t reveal at the moment, but I am intending to bang on using WordPress as a CMS. Hopefully what you tips have mentioned here is going to help a great deal. Cheers!
30 Folletto Malefico http://digitalhymn.com/argilla
October 15th, 2007 at 10:04 pm

Might I suggest this library I use quite every time I need some more juice for my wordpress templates?

WordPress Portal library/plugin:
http://digitalhymn.com/argilla/wpp/

I’ve developed it with a few friends when we were working on a corporate website based upon WP. After that, we polished the code and upgraded it.
31 Jermayn Parker http://germworks.net/blog
October 15th, 2007 at 11:29 pm

Thanks for those tips, I use WordPress quite a bit but some of these are new to me which is good as you may have answered a problem I have and been wanting to solve for one of my websites, so thanks a lot for that
32 Matthew James Taylor http://matthewjamestaylor.com
October 16th, 2007 at 1:55 am

There is a better way to highlight an active tab. Instead of putting the ‘current’ class on the tab itself put an id in the body tag to represent the page you are on eg: body id=”contact” then put an id on each tab eg:=”tabhome”, ” id=”tabcontact”. Now the tabs can be highlighted purely by CSS eg: #contact #tabcontact {font-weight:blod}. This requires much less code because there is only one dynamic part in php (the body tag id). See an example in action on my art gallery website.
33 Razeen
October 16th, 2007 at 3:35 am

Wordpress is a great CMS with full of customization, i like your clean and simple tutorial.
34 Jarand http://blog.kihlmedia.no
October 16th, 2007 at 4:01 am

Great, great article! In fact, i’m designing my own theme for the first time as we speak. This information will become very useful! =) For example, i have never thought about custom fields and never cared about it, but now i can see how i can use it to make some things easier to do. Thank you!
35 Matt http://soonwithWP:-
October 16th, 2007 at 9:02 am

Hi, I’m your reader since april of this year and I like your design and articles. I’m a young italian student’s of InformationTechnology and I want to go to the University (in the specify at “Belle Arti” (Beautiful Arts :-P) in Venice or Milan). I simply love this tutz because I’ll create a site (not weblog) with WP.
You’re a monster Thank you!!

Matt
ps: i’m sorry for the bad english but….i’m a little school’s speaker (lol)
36 William http://willbrown.org
October 16th, 2007 at 11:04 am

This is a great article. Thank you! Well worth the digg. Keep up the awesome work.
37 nazeem http://www.nazeemonline.co.nr/
October 16th, 2007 at 11:54 am

great post.. and nice timing too..I’m redesigning my site…and i could use these..
thanks:D
38 Ian http://www.digimander.com
October 16th, 2007 at 4:41 pm

Fantastic article. Avoids finding plugins to do everything for you.
39 Jenny http://thesocalledme.net
October 16th, 2007 at 5:27 pm

Nice! I can really use this for the theme I’m designing. Thanks for the writeup.
40 Rachel http://rachel.radfordnz.net
October 16th, 2007 at 6:31 pm

Thank you so much - this is a great article. I’ve used WP for ages, but never to this level. Now I am redesigning my site and this is going to be so helpful for implementation!
41 Spencer http://www.psdlayouts.com
October 16th, 2007 at 7:40 pm

So thats how tut sites do it!
42 Cadu de Castro Alves http://www.cadudecastroalves.com
October 16th, 2007 at 8:31 pm

Nice tips! Congratulations!
A little people know that is possible to use .htm, .html or other extensions in permalinks structure.

Just add the extension to the end of the permalink structure field: /%category%/%postname%.htm or /%category%/%postname%.htm
43 Andrei Gonzales http://www.studio-gecko.com
October 17th, 2007 at 12:15 am

Excellent tips! We’re redesigning our site around Wordpress as well, and these help loads.
44 Leandro Cianconi
October 17th, 2007 at 5:35 am

Great post! This website design it’s a good example how to use wordpress with very pretty and functional template. Thank you!
45 Nathan http://artisticimpulses.com
October 17th, 2007 at 6:22 am

Oh god. Looking at your site makes me so upset with my own. I really do like the design here. Its wonderfully made and so influential. I would love to catch some more of these hints and tips. They are very useful.

Continuing to be jealous of yours skills,
Nathan
46 Johan http://www.mooseman.se
October 17th, 2007 at 1:18 pm

Thanks alot for this. Much of this I had no idea about
47 Jon http://www.dyers.org/blog/archives/2007/10/17/wordpress-tip-how-to-change-the-number-of-drafts-shown-in-your-admin-panel/
October 17th, 2007 at 1:34 pm

I consider myself pretty well versed with Wordpress hacking, so you can imagine how dumb you made me feel by suggesting that I use a category for featured posts. I felt like a complete moron. So simple, so good.
48 Accomplice http://www.accomplice.uk.com
October 17th, 2007 at 3:28 pm

Great tips!!
49 Komsan Kramer http://pursefighter.com
October 17th, 2007 at 7:17 pm

This is a fantastic article, and I’ve started using a lot of the stuff on here! Very informative, my only question I have, and maybe some of the other readers here might be able to help, is that on this website the categories are displayed as buttons with javascript hover over enabled… how do you do that! I’d really love to know.
50 Smart websites make money http://www.layoutgarden.com
October 18th, 2007 at 5:45 am

Some of them I have already known but some are just great. Only if I would have the patience to implement them…
51 Thiago
October 18th, 2007 at 7:56 am

Thanks!
FAV and share for my friends!
52 Thiago Souza http://www.thiagosouza.com.br
October 18th, 2007 at 9:42 am

All my hack are summarized in just one:
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53 Malin http://www.infektia.net
October 18th, 2007 at 3:11 pm

Awesome post! Some I already knew of, and some I never thought of! ^^
I just wish I could figure out how to get the “Page Template” tab back in the admin. It’s no longer there
54 Corinne http://c0rinne.net
October 19th, 2007 at 2:57 am

Definitely some great stuff there. I’ve had to go to great lengths to find alternatives, when the answers were right in your head!

What took you so long?

Thanks!!
55 Carly http://twisted-barfly.co.uk
October 19th, 2007 at 10:15 am

This is great, thank you!
56 Lea de Groot http://elysiansystems.com/
October 19th, 2007 at 7:06 pm

Oh, well done - a very nice list of code stubs all put together.
Bookmarked, because I hate trawling the codex
57 scart http://scarty.com
October 19th, 2007 at 9:18 pm

great list of hack i know some of it but most i never think of that i can do that

thanks for sharing!
58 scart http://scarty.com
October 19th, 2007 at 9:46 pm

is the google ad can be post after 2nd post?
59 willmen46 http://willmen46.wordpress.com
October 20th, 2007 at 7:14 am

mm nice artilce
i must try it.thanx
60 matt http://joncalex.com
October 20th, 2007 at 3:40 pm

Hi Nick,

I have a question, I’m working on a blog right now, I noticed yours does the same thing, Try submitting a comment without entering any values. It takes you to wp-comments-post.php its in the includes folder. I guess we should not worry too much about anyone not submitting a comment, but the page it takes you to is a wordpress default page. No longer do we feel like we are in the site. I might try to mess around with it and customize it, like you would a 404 page. but I’m not sure how wordpress will take it. Anyone have thoughts on this?
61 Ben
October 21st, 2007 at 6:23 am

Thank you so much for this article! I’m setting up my own WordPress blog and this will help me a lot. Like we sa in french “ça tombe à pic”! By the way, I’d like to tell you that this blog is the best ever in terms of design and css. This is a brilliant work you did, so many people can confirm. Have a nice sunday!
62 omcdesign http://omcomc.com
October 21st, 2007 at 12:50 pm

I think you need to understand a bit of PHP to do these hacks.. still they are easy and great, thanks for sharing..
63 Tom http://www.twademedia.com
October 21st, 2007 at 2:55 pm

@ Matt [60]
Surely you could just use javascript OnSubmit to check if fields are empty and then only submit the form if the fields have been filled out.
64 Dapo Olaopa
October 22nd, 2007 at 9:16 am

I have designed my template in html on my PC and I’m offline (I need to go to a cybercafe to use the internet). I also downloaded the WordPress installation. What do I do next?

Thanx
65 Jermayn Parker http://germworks.net/blog
October 22nd, 2007 at 11:27 pm

Found this article very helpful with a problem I had last week
http://germworks.net/blog/2007/10/19/need-help-with-wordpress-loops/
66 Alex http://www.typepress.net
October 23rd, 2007 at 1:19 pm

You wouldn’t even imagine how long i’ve been looking for a place to reference with all of these.

THANK YOU.
67 Joycee http://www.joystudio.ca
October 24th, 2007 at 4:25 am

awesome, just awesome. thanks so much for this post!
68 Drew http://slightlyunhinged.com
October 24th, 2007 at 12:01 pm

What a valuable resource. Thanks so much for posting all this!
69 Sharell http://foxerella.com
October 24th, 2007 at 12:04 pm

Wow! Thanks!
70 Casey M.
October 24th, 2007 at 5:55 pm

I don’t believe you mentioned how to do this, but if you did then I’m so clueless that I completely overlooked it and didn’t realize that that’s what you were doing.

Basically, I want to know if anyone can send me on my way to figuring out how exactly to style different categories separately on the WordPress home page (index). For example, I want a “Links” category, and when I post in that category it isn’t styled like a real post (large heading, etc.).

If you’re unsure as to what exactly it is that I’m talking about, then here’s a few sites that utilize this technique:

http://www.joshuablankenship.com/blog/
http://www.kottke.org/
http://www.thebignoob.com

These are just a few that I thought of off the top of my head and I’m aware that they don’t all use WordPress. But you get the idea of what I’m wanting.

Thanks in advance!
71 ascetic http://www.itechstyle.com
October 25th, 2007 at 1:00 pm

nice read indeed thanks
72 Matt P.
October 26th, 2007 at 1:57 pm

Hey Casey M.,

Look at the section “Feature post highlighting” above in the article. That is what you would want to do. Inside of your Loop you would want to put that php code in the class position of your div that surrounds each post.
You could even do:

Then you could have seperate styles for .link and .normal
73 Free Fall Creative http://www.freefallcreative.com
October 27th, 2007 at 11:36 pm

Awesome article. Learned a few things with wordpress I’ve been wanting to, so this helps a lot.

Thanks!!!!
74 matt http://joncalex.com
October 28th, 2007 at 2:35 am

@ Tom [63]

Thanks, Tom your right about that. I didn’t think about that at the time.
75 Aion http://www.aionglobal.com
October 28th, 2007 at 4:26 am

Wordpress became really good
76 Rose DesRochers http://rosedesrochers.todays-woman.net
October 28th, 2007 at 1:49 pm

Thank you for the helpful article. Stumbled and will link to it on bloggertalk.net
77 Sebastian http://blog.intelligence-networks.de/
October 29th, 2007 at 6:54 am

Outstanding hints for such a great ‘CMS’ like WordPress is!

Thanks a lot!
78 chazychaz http://www.artsmixer.com/
October 29th, 2007 at 3:32 pm

Thank you for sharing this!!
79 james
October 30th, 2007 at 6:48 am

dig this stuff always. Would love to know how I can make a wordpress & flash portfolio. Just getting the php to spit out the XML so i can make a flash CMS.
check out http://www.gotoandlearn.com
80 Strawberrysoup http://www.strawberrysoup.co.uk
October 30th, 2007 at 6:50 pm

Great article - it is interesting to look at Wordpress as an alternative to other open source or in-house content mangement systems. Many thanks for another great article!
81 Thomas Ka http://www.aboveluxe.fr/
October 31st, 2007 at 6:13 am

Thank’s fore these code sample…

A good example of using Wordpress as a CMS : http://www.aboveluxe.fr/

K
82 TOTALFUNWORLD.COM http://www.totalfunworld.com
November 2nd, 2007 at 9:16 am

Great sharing. I have Learned a new things with wordpress from the above article. Thanks for the sharing.
83 Rubens Fernando http://www.rubensfernando.com
November 2nd, 2007 at 9:50 am

Good Article! Thanks
84 wordpress seo http://www.wordpress-seo.com
November 2nd, 2007 at 6:58 pm

Get more with your wordpress , Seo out the box and better seo enable with simple modification.
85 adam http://archgfx.net/
November 3rd, 2007 at 6:57 pm

somebody’s probably already said this, bu i can’t be arsed to page through all the pages of comments.

rather than using a conditional to define a different template for a specific category, let wordpress do the heavy lifting: create a template called category-6.php (or whatever your category ID is), and customize it as you please. wordpress already automatically checks for this, and will use the file if it exists.
86 Tan The Man http://www.dorksandlosers.com
November 4th, 2007 at 6:09 am

Userful is the key word. Much appreciated.
87 Jokes http://www.wakafun.com/
November 5th, 2007 at 7:59 pm

Thanks a lot! Considering the number of plug-ins its the approach!
88 idezmax http://www.idezmax.com
November 7th, 2007 at 8:34 pm

Thak you very much. I will try.
89 PiticStyle http://www.piticstyle.com
November 7th, 2007 at 10:34 pm

Thank you!
90 Livingston Samuel http://blog.delivi.info/
November 8th, 2007 at 3:11 am

Wow! Great article. This has helped me a lot. Keep the good work going on and Thanks a lot
91 Red@ http://Dzordre.com
November 8th, 2007 at 7:22 am

Thank you for Sharing with us this precious informations … it help’s alot !
92 Mark Wiseman http://allthewikis.com
November 11th, 2007 at 3:05 am

Wow, great post and great website design, Thanks
93 Technology Blog http://chronicles.wraithstrider.com
November 13th, 2007 at 5:38 am

thanks…
94 Lazlow http://slickhouse.com/
November 13th, 2007 at 5:31 pm

Wow! Nice article, but the site itself is outstanding - very inspiring!
95 andy http://drew3000.net
November 13th, 2007 at 7:55 pm

Thanks for the article and even more so for the great design. This site’s theme is fantastic. Inspires me to sit down and create a unique one myself. Very Nice.
96 ark
November 14th, 2007 at 3:21 am

wow, a really nice information, really help a lot…
97 ark
November 14th, 2007 at 7:13 am

and one more thing, can i ask some question, actually Im new to the wordpress thing/web. For the widger/sidebar, can change the widget or totally add new thing/function inside? I planning to using Wordpress to making my site because i need the Posting/commenting function…..
98 chirag http://moneymakersroad.googlepages.com
November 14th, 2007 at 2:00 pm

good one
99 micron
November 15th, 2007 at 3:27 am

What would this ( ) be for a Single post?
100 Mehmet Poyraz http://www.kurutma.net
November 15th, 2007 at 9:48 am

very nice
101 Mark N
November 16th, 2007 at 11:09 am

This is probably the most helpful tutorial I’ve ever read.
102 thamil http://www.google.com
November 17th, 2007 at 8:39 pm

it is very useful for me
103 daid http://webvmastergroup.org
November 19th, 2007 at 3:14 am

wow nice tutorials
thank
104 Webdesigner München http://www.weblike.de
November 19th, 2007 at 4:39 am

Thanks for the great informations and the hacks!
Best regards from munich.
105 Dj RaYz http://www.djrayz.com
November 20th, 2007 at 2:50 am

Thank you very much for all the helpful tutorials and tips for blogging!
106 Paul Enderson http://paulenderson.com
November 20th, 2007 at 7:59 am

Excellent post - and very useful too! Thanks…
107 andree http://www.webeternity.co.uk
November 20th, 2007 at 2:15 pm

very good, i like it, just a small question.

i have may pages on my website, they show in the page widget and in the header wich is normal but how can i remove some of the pages from the header but keep them in the page widget? the reason for this is if i goto my website in firefox it looks wrong and this is ecouse of the amount of pages in the header
108 Fab http://www.fabnetrevenue.com
November 21st, 2007 at 8:57 am

Brilliant information ! Thanks for putting that together…
Would each WP Theme be appropriate for theses hacks ?
109 Editing Services http://www.alphabetix.net
November 21st, 2007 at 6:17 pm

Great post. I like your web design. Thanks for sharing!
110 forat http://www.forat.info
November 21st, 2007 at 7:50 pm

Theme Very good and very good handbook. Thanks !!
111 ashish http://www.takemasti.com
November 25th, 2007 at 6:54 am

this is very nice website
112 Agosh http://www.suvodas.com,www.ferfalla.com
November 27th, 2007 at 2:59 am

really nice & useful site, and keep updated

thanks
113 AlienFarmer http://www.solarcoupons.com
November 27th, 2007 at 9:02 pm

Great post! I use wordpress to do a deals website thats all about solar products. http://www.SolarCoupons.com if you want to check it out.
114 Darren Hoyt http://www.darrenhoyt.com
November 28th, 2007 at 4:35 pm

Great examples. I did notice that the code for “Unique Single template” has a few issues.

For one, the spacing between the dash and brackets needs closing here:

$wp_query- >post;

Same with the space between the bracket and question mark:

? >

Otherwise, it throws an error.
115 Ibrar
November 29th, 2007 at 6:25 pm

/%category%/%postname%/ = http://yourname.com/about/

But I want like this:
/%?????????????????%/ = http://www.youname.com/about

any idea?
116 aydınlatma direkleri http://www.buse-aydinlatma-sistemleri.com
December 3rd, 2007 at 5:00 am

thanks
117 kablo tavası http://www.ekip-ltd.com.tr
December 3rd, 2007 at 5:01 am

good source.thanks
118 kablo merdiveni http://www.ekip-ltd.com.tr
December 3rd, 2007 at 5:01 am

great examples!!!!!!
119 Xooxia http://xooxia.com
December 3rd, 2007 at 12:41 pm

Beautiful information. This format is much easier to get an idea of how flexible the template system is in wordpress than the documentation that wordpress offers. Thanks for the hard work in putting this together!
120 Betty Carbuncle http://bettycarbuncle.net
December 4th, 2007 at 12:22 am

hello! that logo with heart on the W of Wordpress was originally a creation of mine. I would like to be recognized for that, even if changed and 3d-ed. thanks a lot. I will apreciate this a lot. Thanks again for reading this comment. If you go back in the past wordpress logo competition, you’ll see the logo with the heart was created by me: dandyna, now Betty Carbuncle on the net. Huge hugs, Betty (dandyna)
121 RHO http://rho.slowli.com
December 5th, 2007 at 8:23 am

Thank you for this examples!

I often looked for something like the Dynamic Highlight Menu!
Now i found that! Great
122 Lucas Savelli
December 6th, 2007 at 8:54 am

Spectacular!
123 mach
December 8th, 2007 at 11:26 am

good !!
124 Michael Kelly http://www.conurestudios.com
December 10th, 2007 at 4:36 pm

Awesome website and awesome content. I’m a very big wordpress guy but still love to have links like this ready in case. Thanks for the good work!!
125 steveb http://www.mizizi.net
December 12th, 2007 at 12:11 pm

fantastic stuff
126 Mack http://www.freemobilecity.com/
December 13th, 2007 at 5:11 am

This is great since most word press themes suck. Lets see if a non-designer and non-programmer like me can use it. Thanks
127 Domain Name India http://www.domaindisney.com
December 13th, 2007 at 6:26 am

Nice article. Even programmers and domain name and hosting passionates wil get benefit from this.
128 Fei
December 14th, 2007 at 10:17 am

Really want to thank you for this post, it has really pulled me through when I was helping a friend to customize this wordpress look. Appreciate your hardwork, putting all these info together!
129 khax http://www.khax.com
December 18th, 2007 at 2:47 pm

big thx for this tips!
130 Wam3 http://blogblurt.com
December 19th, 2007 at 2:02 am

Fantastic stuff! Thanks a million.
131 Andy http://electon.info
December 19th, 2007 at 11:46 am

Oh, and did not know about it. Thanks for the information …
132 Tokyo http://www.ilovetokyo.fr
December 23rd, 2007 at 7:43 pm

Wow !
133 Alex
December 26th, 2007 at 5:07 pm

Thanks!
Seeing how powerful WP actually is has inspired me to start using it.
134 SMASHINGAPPS.COM http://www.smashingapps.com
December 29th, 2007 at 9:43 am

Helpful article. Thanks
135 Rakesh Sharma Jack http://www.egzone.info
January 2nd, 2008 at 3:48 am

in a few words: wonderful article..simply suberb.
136 Susanne http://netz-studio.de/
January 2nd, 2008 at 12:17 pm

I also like to use WP as CMS. And here I found more interesting stuff for working with WP as CMS. Thank you.
137 jesie http://www.jesieblogjourney.com
January 3rd, 2008 at 9:30 pm

I’m trying to use it. Just timely for me as I am trying to construct another new website. Stumbled and reviewed!
138 Chris Laskey http://www.chrislaskeydesign.com
January 7th, 2008 at 8:31 pm

Great guide to some of the finer points of editing WP, all in one place. Another great post by webdesignerwall.

Cheers
139 LondonJack http://www.ahtutorial.com
January 8th, 2008 at 8:05 am

thank you. this art theme is very good!
140 ibrahim http://www.runbitchrun.com
January 8th, 2008 at 4:51 pm

wow i really liked that loop features…
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January 16th, 2008 at 3:23 am

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143 anatomy body education grays human stomach yahoo http://stars-education.com/
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144 flower flower ohio paperback wild wild http://flowers-for-people.com/
January 16th, 2008 at 7:35 am

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145 desktop flower free photo site wallpaper http://flowers-for-people.com/
January 16th, 2008 at 7:42 am

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146 palace hotel ho chi minh city http://hotel-2.road-hotels.com/palace-hotel-ho-chi-minh-city.html
January 17th, 2008 at 8:52 am

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147 fadern http://www.fadern.se
January 17th, 2008 at 8:53 am

Thanks
148 Jeromy
January 18th, 2008 at 10:07 am

Here’s a related question: I want to show content only on a page and all it’s subpages. Is there a way to do that?
149 web design http:www.webeternity.co.uk
January 19th, 2008 at 6:14 pm

Excellent post - and very useful too! Thanks…
150 rene
January 20th, 2008 at 11:57 am

the note “don’t spam” should be answered with a installation of askimet. forex and co. … stupid suckers. :-/
151 web design http://www.webeternity.co.uk
January 21st, 2008 at 3:31 pm

very good, i like it
152 8am SEO http://www.8amseo.com/
January 23rd, 2008 at 10:35 am

Thanks for the Wordpress Hacks. I’m going to implements some of these in my SEO website soon.
153 amrinz http://www.linuxindo.web.id
January 24th, 2008 at 5:09 am

good news for me
154 ineation http://www.guidechambrehote.com
January 25th, 2008 at 6:29 am

Just fyi, I think that the is_home() template tag do not work anymore for WP>2.1, due to the new homepage option feature in the admin. Nethertheless you can use a plugin called is_frontpage (http://www.bos89.nl/1197) that will do the same job…

Congratulation 4 your blog design, I think it is the best I have ever seen.
155 Foxinni - Wordpress Designer http://www.foxinni.com
January 30th, 2008 at 12:45 pm

Haha…. wordpress is very cool indeed. Gonna make use of the custom field now. So great.
156 Todd Christensen http://www.quesinberry.com
February 5th, 2008 at 1:08 pm

I know this is dumb. But I am new to the Wordpress thing. Which PHP file do these hacks go?
157 Karen T http://kkkkk.tumblr.com
February 8th, 2008 at 3:33 pm

@Todd Christensen:

These go to the ‘theme’ files.

You can download a theme from online and figure out how they work and then edit according to what you want from there. There is no ‘right’ php file these codes go into because template files are pretty much dynamic in nature. Hope that helps.
158 Sim Kamsan http://www.ancientangkorguide.com/
February 10th, 2008 at 9:30 am

Great Post Thanks.
159 Mali http://www.eatingdesign.com
February 10th, 2008 at 5:06 pm

Im really getting into wordpress, But your post still blows my mind! lol All the sites you have created are a real inspirations to me. The artwork is not a problem and I really want to push my blog beyond, hopefully soon I will get my head around the customisation of wordpress.

Thanks for the post and thanks for the inspiration
Mali
Eating Design
160 LD http://www.phim24h.com
February 15th, 2008 at 1:20 am

Nice Post! Thanks
161 Misser http://haozhan.name
February 16th, 2008 at 7:05 pm

I just come to say thanks. With your introduction in section “Query Post”, I have solved my theme Problem in a simple and elegant way.
162 David Stembridge http://fbcwaynesboro.org
February 20th, 2008 at 11:11 am

I’m trying to set up a Unique Single template… and I keeping getting a blank page… I modified the code like this:

post;

if ( in_category(’1′) ) {
include(TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/category-1.php’);

}
? >

but, perhaps I’m not putting this in the correct place for the single.php? Where on the file does that need to be inserted? Why does this have a forward slash in the front (/category-1.php) ?
Thanks!
163 Therseus http://therseus.com
February 21st, 2008 at 9:07 pm

Hi Nick! Thanks for a great website and insight into Wordpress.
Im trying to implement the custom hack on my site to produce a Post icon at the top of my posts…im having some trouble aligning it. Help anyone ?
164 Andy the Celebrity http://gle.am
March 2nd, 2008 at 7:20 pm

Great info! I might actually try to hammer out one of my own someday…
165 Hosting http://www.weareonline.nl
March 4th, 2008 at 4:34 pm

Which of these WP items would you advise for SEO purposes?
166 bob http://home.com
March 5th, 2008 at 2:43 am

TfQeq1 hi nice site man thx http://peace.com
167 kayol http://www.hostdemon.net
March 6th, 2008 at 7:49 pm

Found this post on WP Theme Hacks from our Web Hosting Company using Stumble! Very nice guide.
168 Brian http://www.webunload.com
March 9th, 2008 at 11:49 pm

I really good example of the strange things you can accomplish with wordpress is http://www.webunload.com. It is transformed into a marketplace similar to sitepoint. Enjoyed the article!
169 Shane http://www.freshclickmedia.com
March 10th, 2008 at 3:46 pm

Interesting and very useful post. Thanks a lot.
170 petnos http://www.petnos.com
March 11th, 2008 at 2:42 am

This post is really useful, thanks for sharing.
171 Sue
March 12th, 2008 at 12:05 pm

I am using the Dynamic Highlight Menu. The problem is, on some pages, there are sub-pages. When I go to those sub-pages, the selected tab at the top isn’t selected anymore. For instance, if I click on the tab Gallery, there are links in the sidebar to say Colored Pencils or Paint. If I click on one of those links, the tab Gallery is no longer highlighted. Would I have to use an or statement to connect all the sub-pages to the main page, or is there an easier way to deal with this situation?

Also, could you email me with your reply? Thanks.
172 Ryan http://ryanhellyer.net/web_development/
March 15th, 2008 at 6:12 am

Thanks for the useful tips

I created the “Simple CMS WordPress Plugin” recently which massively simplifies the admin panel to make it idiot proof for non web designers to update their simple static websites.

I also have a development theme called “Simple CMS Theme” for helping web designers develop static websites with WordPress.
173 dapo-phoenix
March 16th, 2008 at 11:57 am

I really like this blog: the design, the info everything! If this isn’t too much to ask can you please make a detailed tutrial on how to create wordpress themes/templates?(or you can wirte a list of links with very good tuts on same.)
Thanx a million!
174 Flo http://www.dexthis.com
March 17th, 2008 at 5:02 am

well done on this site, it’s really well done! Top tips on how to use wordpress too, very impressed. Will definately come back to check on it. Cheers!
175 Sussex Web Design http://www.pixeldesignstudio.co.uk
March 17th, 2008 at 9:22 am

Great post! We have used some of these in our own web design blog, there are a few we have not seen before which we will use in our web hosting blog.

We keep coming back to your site, not just because of the great posts, but the design is just awesome! Keep it up.
176 yosax http://www.yosax.com
March 18th, 2008 at 5:17 am

I’m using your methods on my Automotiive World website and now it’s more attractive.
Thank you for the share.
177 elizer http://relizers.ueuo.com
March 19th, 2008 at 6:09 am

very good example..but i’m still confused. can you teach me step by step?
thanks before for your attention..
178 Antonio
March 19th, 2008 at 3:43 pm

Hey, great article! I have Wordpress installed locally in my computer. And when I try and change the permalinks according to your article, like this:
/%category%/%postname%/

It won’t work…Is this because I’m working with wordpress locally or what?
179 Megan http://askgriff.com/meg/girls
March 19th, 2008 at 6:17 pm

Hey,
I love your page, i love all the funky colors and the lines kind of like lined paperm and i expecially love your buttons and tabs, im not that great on the computer and dont understand the codes so i was wondering if you ever get extra time maybe you could email me and explain it to ma a little better. Thanks for your time.
Megan
180 sarah http://www.amazingwordpressthemes.com
March 20th, 2008 at 10:10 pm

Although some of the information is technical if you have enough experience this info really is useful and appreciated.

Thanks
Sarah
181 Shantanu Goel http://tech.shantanugoel.com
March 21st, 2008 at 4:09 pm

The design of this site is just so cool, man…I love it

@Antonio (comment 178): This is occuring because you havent modified your .htaccess file or ur mod_rewrite isn’t running
182 Jon http://chronicblogger.com
March 24th, 2008 at 1:50 pm

This article was really helpful. I’m wondering if there’s a way to tinker around with a Wordpress theme without having to do it ‘live’ online. PS your site’s design is amazing!
183 waleed http://al-wlid.com
March 25th, 2008 at 1:07 pm

very good example..but i’m still confused. can you teach me step by step?
thanks before for your attention ..
184 Taurin
March 25th, 2008 at 1:50 pm

Hi Nick,

I love your Artwork. Really great job. I’m actually working on a theme, based on your Glossy Theme. If you’re interessted and want to have a look, just mail me.

Kind regards.
185 dody
March 27th, 2008 at 9:49 pm

hello, your theme so beatifull..natural..i like it..first thing i have to say is iam newbie on wordpress..just 3 days..i learn a little bit about this en that..then WOW wordpress so great..so open source..so freely..alot of source i can got for free..

By the way thanks for you article..help me better..
186 Zeytin http://www.zeytin.net
April 1st, 2008 at 8:27 am

very good example..
187 Julia http://pinkmoonz.com/
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:44 am

Oh my gosh am I glad to have found you! I do hope you’ll be able to help me… I think I did something funky to my template when I removed the blog title, and now my About and Home tabs are not where they should be. Please could you take a peek? I’d love you forever! Thank You x
btw - your theme is just beautiful!
188 Karen
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:30 pm

Thanks for some great pointers! You’ve just saved me loads of time!

Your layout is just lovely. Easy on the eye and makes technical content easy to navigate and follow. Thumbs up from a technical writer!
189 Banago http://www.xixblog.com
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:35 pm

Good job body. Thanks!
190 MAJ3STIC
April 3rd, 2008 at 3:30 pm

Will you creating a theme for us to practice with or a psd version of a theme?
191 Anonymous http://www.aargroup.ru/kalendar-buhgaltera.php
April 4th, 2008 at 7:58 am

AAR Group:
192 Satisfyte http://www.wickedsatisfying.com
April 5th, 2008 at 12:32 am

This has been so helpful! I’ve admired your website and its wonderfully homemade design for months now.

I’ve finally gotten my act together and put together a blog, and I’m definitely finding value in your tutorials even more now that I can actually try them out. Keep up the great work!
193 Tim
April 5th, 2008 at 4:05 pm

Awesome stuff! Thanks for the tips.
194 Mark http://--
April 7th, 2008 at 11:15 pm

Thanks so much for the dynamic title tag hack!
I’m using custom fields to display image headers for each page. I’ve been searching for a way how to do this for a while.

I do have an addition to your code for displaying different image banners for each page. I changed it a little to suit the image tag but can’t post it here due to restrictions. I’d love to send it your way to add to the list–it may come in handy for others. I, like yourself, am a designer who’s been picking apart, hacking, and building up code of wordpress.
195 Teenage Love http://teenagelove.awardspace.com/index.htm
April 15th, 2008 at 9:28 am

Great post. No wonder you got so many diggs. Now I am also gonna use wp as a cms. Thanks.
196 Banago http://www.xixblog.com
April 15th, 2008 at 1:10 pm

It is very difficult to chose the best of them (the hacks) as all of them are very helpful and there is not redundancy, but I liked especially one, the Dynamic Highlight Menu. I find it very very designingly helpful.
197 Understanding vista http://www.understandingvista.com
April 20th, 2008 at 2:12 am

This page is a bookmark for sure! I will use what I learned from you, in redesigning my understanding vista site.
198 Aksi Lucah http://aksi-lucah.blogspot.com
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:42 am

Thanks for the inspiring and thoughtful post ….i will implement it also on my web..;)
199 mundi http://dform.org
April 25th, 2008 at 4:59 pm

ello i use this code to include pages per id in the template:

`post_content; ?>`

>>>> $my_id = 3; <<<<< is the page ID,
now i am searching a way to include pages in pages
200 Dexterous SEO India (Search Engine Optimization) Company http://www.dexterous-seo-india.com/
April 26th, 2008 at 11:32 pm

Ultimate article that excels through simplicity, this sort of article i am looking for to leverage my work process, so here i really come to know, that very designer is responsible for SEO services, every designer have to take peer on web page design from page layout to W3C coding standard.
201 M and M http://www.easycoloredcontactlenses.com
April 27th, 2008 at 5:38 am

I use a word press installer with many other people to build my blogs so making my site stand out from the crowd is very important. Thanks
202 Mash http://www.mlmcommunity.org
April 28th, 2008 at 6:33 am

Thank You so Much for this info. So helpful. But where do i carry these out? in the sytlesheet.css, layout.css or where? Need your urgent reply. Thanks.
203 Mash http://www.mlmcommunity.org
April 28th, 2008 at 10:39 am

Cool stuff. but where do i make changes. in the css or the index.php? where exactly? thanks
204 Mario http://blabla.frih.net
April 28th, 2008 at 12:23 pm

Coool! - What a nice post.. Congratulations really. I like this kind of Info for designers, very helpfull, very insteresting.

Keep this way! Thank you.
205 Eric http://www.gfxpoll.com
April 28th, 2008 at 4:07 pm

Great blog, This is one reason to use Wordpress, you can use fine hacks!
206 cosmetic http://www.jpgcenter.com
April 29th, 2008 at 7:31 pm

very pretty site
207 Jack
April 29th, 2008 at 8:48 pm

ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhh very cool.
208 Steve http://www.nugeek.com
April 30th, 2008 at 10:56 am

Regarding:

“Exclude specific category

You can also use query_posts to exclude specific category being displayed. The following code will exclude all posts in categoryID 2 (note: there is a minus sign before the ID number)”

Which php page needs to be edited to include this? I tried the Single.php and Main index.php without any success in actually excluding certain categories.
209 pupungbp http://designmagz.com
April 30th, 2008 at 9:39 pm

Nice hack, thanks… Currently i’m building a wordpress theme, these tips helps me a lot.
210 FreeArticleSubmition http://www.articlescorps.com
May 1st, 2008 at 5:47 pm

Expert designer.
Wonderful and sensitive
hank you for this useful information !
211 Meetings http://www.onlinemeetingblog.com
May 1st, 2008 at 9:55 pm

very nice site
212 Jon http://www.whatthedoc.com
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:31 pm

Great hacks, very useful while setting up my blog. Thanks a lot.
213 Cell Phones Ringtones http://www.cellphonesspot.blogspot.com
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:57 pm

Great blog. Thank you for the info.
214 harmu http://harmu.com/
May 4th, 2008 at 5:45 am

any idea to put adsense inside the single post page, also to get it surrounded by the nearby text!
215 CFO http://www.cfo-russia.ru
May 4th, 2008 at 10:32 am

CFO Russia -
216 s4motny http://tuning-kit.se
May 4th, 2008 at 1:35 pm

very good tutorials thanks
217 Web Designer India http://www.web-designer-india.com/
May 5th, 2008 at 1:51 am

Here we have designed plethora of websites & having a huge customized web designed portfolio. But right now we are lagging behind from client list.

Why & how my competitors are fetching my clients.
218 tom http://galablog.mine.nu
May 6th, 2008 at 10:47 pm

Your post is so good ! Thanks
219 zenit
May 7th, 2008 at 6:57 am

MANY MANY THANKS
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May 7th, 2008 at 7:56 pm

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May 8th, 2008 at 9:35 am

Thanks for the lessons on WP!

And I love this theme. I wish it were avaible for downloading.
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May 9th, 2008 at 10:53 pm

great tips - thanks for all of these - they sure are helpful.
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224 Evako
May 11th, 2008 at 5:43 am

Creating a wordpress theme from scratch would be great.Starting from a design and going on the coding part of if.

Thanks
225 custom web design http://www.kapilakan.com
May 11th, 2008 at 11:16 am

Thanks for info.
226 wordpress themes http://www.mikefeuerforassembly.com/category/wordpress-themes
May 16th, 2008 at 6:18 am

so usefull tutorials.thanks for information.
227 Nicholas Breslow http://www.nicholasbreslow.com
May 18th, 2008 at 6:26 pm

Hiya, Great page - thanks for all of the useful information. I was wondering if you could help me with the code for displaying entire posts instead of just the title. What do I need to add to the ‘Diplay Recent Posts’ code above to accomplish this?

Thanks in advance!
228 Jack http://adultsextoys.deals-australia.com/
May 19th, 2008 at 11:11 pm

Great article thank you. I’m becoming more and more convinced that WP is the best CMS for me
229 Joomla Templates http://www.gigaturn.com
May 21st, 2008 at 11:24 am

Hi,
I have worked on many Joomla templates, but no idea about wordpress templates.
230 michaels craft store http://michaels-craft--store.blogspot.com/
May 21st, 2008 at 12:33 pm

this is by far the most interesting post i’ve stumbled so far..thanks for the contribution to the society and for the knowledge..
231 Finan Akbar http://soon
May 26th, 2008 at 4:52 am

Thx for the tutorial.

Anyway, could you please give us more tutorial!!!

and where can I get Wordpress CMS Installer???

Thx
232 Wes http://workinprogress=
May 26th, 2008 at 6:28 am

Hey all,

this is such a great resource to up and coming wordpress’ers. Im currently workin on my first wordpress site/blog/theme and was wondering if anyone could let me know how you go about getting the little ‘date’ tabs that appear next to all the articles floating outside the container? forgive me if this seems off topic but i wasnt sure where else to put it.

Cheers
233 bayab http://bayan.us
May 28th, 2008 at 5:24 pm

thank nice enggine optizacion
234 NAV Freak http://www.speedteach.com/dynamics-nav-training.aspx
May 29th, 2008 at 4:55 am

Thank your for useful hacks! Can you add one more- how to delete date from all posts? This is the first thing to make CMS from Wordpess.
235 Watermarker http://www.easysector.com/watermark-photo-batch.htm
May 29th, 2008 at 4:59 am

To NAV Freak:
Just delete: <abbr title=” from index.php of your theme.
236 Watermarker http://www.easysector.com/watermark-photo-batch.htm
May 29th, 2008 at 5:01 am

Sorry, find and delete: php the_time(’Y-m-d\TH:i:sO’); in index.php
237 Bollywood News http://www.bollywoodhott.com/
May 31st, 2008 at 5:50 am

Thanks a lot for the Great tutorials.. It is very simple and easy to understand even for a newbie like me U really rock and ur design-sense rock more than u do!
238 Giuseppe http://www.tmdesigner.it
June 1st, 2008 at 12:48 pm

One more good reason to use WP.. Ever! Tanks
239 petnos http://www.petnos.com
June 7th, 2008 at 9:43 am

Thanks for this useful stuff.
240 Norman Fellows http://www.normanfellows.com/archiblog/
June 7th, 2008 at 3:57 pm

@Finan Akbar

I get mine as a one-click install from my hosting company (DreamHost).
241 Norman Fellows http://www.normanfellows.com/archiblog/
June 7th, 2008 at 4:08 pm

Or you could try this link:

http://michaeldoig.net/4/installing-mamp-and-wordpress.htm/
242 Tv http://www.tvizlet.com
June 10th, 2008 at 3:41 pm

Hi,
This is good documan thanks .
243 9lines http://www.9linesmag.com
June 13th, 2008 at 6:05 pm

Nice work! Thnx!
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June 21st, 2008 at 3:28 am

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June 21st, 2008 at 1:44 pm

Thanks a lot. This page was very helpful.
246 pablogt
June 25th, 2008 at 8:10 am

where do I paste this?

Dynamic Content

If you want to include a file that will only appear on the frontpage, here is the code:
247 DJ Slimchopstick http://whatuknow.info/blog/
June 26th, 2008 at 11:44 pm

Thank you soooo much for sharing these tips, they help a ton! I Subscribed halfway reading this post, haha.
Btw, love your layout, it’s awesome! Have a good one
248 freelance http://www.makemoneyfreelancing.com
June 28th, 2008 at 4:20 am

this is a very nice tutorial on wordpress theme hacks, thanks for this
249 gefth http://gefthw.free.fr
July 1st, 2008 at 4:16 pm

Thanks for your post so much interesting and very useful. I appreciate your “dynamic title tag” hack which seems to be a respond to override “common title tag mistakes” as specified in your another nice post “Seo Guide for Designers”.
250 Glenn http://www.gl3nnx.com
July 6th, 2008 at 10:44 pm

very impressive design sir, it gives me an idea to make my google adsense appear on a selected part of my blog! i am currently redesigning my blog.
251 Esanjor http://www.arasta.com
July 7th, 2008 at 4:46 am

Many thanks for the great information guys.
252 Toure http://exedesign.com
July 7th, 2008 at 10:01 am

Great tutorial!
It will be greater if you have time to show the process of transformation of a small CMS from start to finish. Like people from http://www.friendsofed.com does.
Againt thanks, I learn a lot visiting this site (almost do it daily).
253 speedybiz http://www.mavoz.com
July 19th, 2008 at 12:56 am

Cool tips, its really help me to build bette CMS for my wordpress powered site. Thanks.
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July 19th, 2008 at 2:36 pm

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255 Teknoloji http://www.teknohell.com
July 20th, 2008 at 6:21 pm

thakks.
256 eduardo http://www.ehastuena.com.ar
July 24th, 2008 at 4:41 pm

Do you know how much time I spend searching hoy to make WP more CMS?

It was always here, why i didnt search here first! You are like a webdesign-professor. really!

You explain things in a simple and short way.. as nobody does! in this post of yours i found what i was looking for and well explained wth example!… again, continue like this beacuse if you stop i would probably stop learning new things as well thaks
257 nando
July 25th, 2008 at 6:14 pm

Thanks for the great hacks. Quick question, regarding Unique Single template, where do I put that?… lol

Thanks in advance…

nando
258 nando
July 26th, 2008 at 11:50 pm

WOW - major mind fart - I got it now - never mind my question…
259 Randy http://itmservshop.com/cms
July 30th, 2008 at 5:57 am

I’ve been playing with CMS for a short while now. As a Blogger, I’ve always been impressed with WordPress and have used it for a few years now. I’m thinking about dumping my current cms and trying it with WordPress. Thanks for the hints and tips.
I’ll be bookmarking your site!!
THANKS,
Randy
260 John
July 30th, 2008 at 9:24 am

Can someone please tell me where I add the code for the Unique Single template in my single.php file. Is it before or inside the loop - or do you replace part of the loop? Any help is greatly appreciated!
261 adam http://www.LogicalLeadGuitar.com/wordpress
July 31st, 2008 at 11:49 am

I want to run multiple blogs/online magazines with different content, using different themes.

Can this be done?

For example, I use a default WP theme for my guitar lesson blog here: http://www.LogicalLeadGuitar.com/wordpress

But I also want to run an online guitar magazine using the Branford magazine theme, which I want to place here: http://www.LogicalLeadGuitar.com/magazine (obviously, this isn’t an active link yet).

Can this be done?

Certainly someone out there is running multiple blogs, each with different themes and different content?

Adam
262 obebadiamep http://www.answerbag.com/profile/?id=444391
August 2nd, 2008 at 5:13 pm

Very nice!!
263 twinkle http://twinkxzy.wordpress.com
August 5th, 2008 at 7:54 am

please help me prettify my page

i love yours!
264 Vhic Hufana http://vdhdesigns.com
August 7th, 2008 at 12:49 pm

I tried using a custom permalink but then I got some errors. The recent articles are no longer clickable and so with the articles. When I click them it goes nowhere.
265 Pass Over http://www.passoversite.org
August 8th, 2008 at 10:31 am

nice article
266 WordPress Themes http://www.prowordpress.org
August 12th, 2008 at 10:39 am

Great Post. Thanks..
267 website design http://vdhdesigns.com
August 13th, 2008 at 3:12 am

I just visited the link you have provided for the wordpress codecs and i am very much satisfied with what I have found.Thanks a lot.
268 YouON http://www.youon.it
August 13th, 2008 at 8:24 am

great list!
i’m trying to make some good tutorial for wordpress in italian on my blog … really thanks for inspiration.
269 arasta http://www.arastadt.com
August 14th, 2008 at 10:20 am

Thanks for the useful article.
Good work
270 mikael http://www.forth.dk
August 14th, 2008 at 3:16 pm

This is a VERY to-the-point and well written post. So much in just a few lines. good work!
271 Cenay Nailor http://www.cenaynailor.com/business-building-tools/examples-signature-lines/
August 17th, 2008 at 12:49 am

Okay, you just hit my *Come back to this site often* bookmark folder. Great info! I swiped the background on your *code* CSS, hope you don’t mind.

Thanks for all the extra effort you obviously put into your posts.

Cenay’
272 fatihturan http://www.fatihturan.com
August 17th, 2008 at 7:42 am

How i can exclude pages from search results? Do you know any method Nick?
273 ell
August 23rd, 2008 at 11:25 pm

Beautiful site and clear tutorials. Would you ever go through instructions on how to go from a PSD design and turn it into a Wordpress theme?
274 Chat http://www.chat.gen.tr
August 24th, 2008 at 3:18 pm

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August 25th, 2008 at 2:49 am

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276 aronil http://aronil.com
August 26th, 2008 at 3:27 am

Nick you always make my life easier… thanks so much for the custom field hack. I was trying out different ways by copying other theme codes that had the custom field working. But only yours was the most straight forward and it works like a charm. Thanks a lot!!
277 Jord http://wehaveoffices.com
August 26th, 2008 at 1:39 pm

Thanks alot for that, was a great help in making wordpress perform like i wanted it too.

Cheers!
278 Zeytin http://www.zeytin.net/site
August 28th, 2008 at 9:08 pm

Thanks for the useful article.
Good work
279 Yen http://funkyandcreative.com/
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:03 pm

Thanks for the wonderful post! Btw, is there any chance you can offer this theme in the public? I really like it!
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September 7th, 2008 at 4:39 pm

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September 11th, 2008 at 2:08 am

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September 13th, 2008 at 7:51 am

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September 13th, 2008 at 7:56 am

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September 13th, 2008 at 8:31 am

This site is good,for Iso 17025.Thanks.
286 Dedektif http://www.dedektiftk.com
September 19th, 2008 at 4:19 am

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287 Zainal http://www.zainals.com
September 20th, 2008 at 7:19 am

Brilliant , its about time until i get my own theme done !
thanks for sharing
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September 20th, 2008 at 8:11 am

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289 TURKAK http://www.fqcert.com
September 23rd, 2008 at 6:34 pm

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291 Emma
September 26th, 2008 at 2:58 am

Wow thank you very much, I did learn a lot of your post. I just wanted to know if someone here knows how to show the latest categories from category minus the first post? So I want it to start from post “2″ from say category “5″? Anyone able to help me out?

x
Emma
292 Rahul Joshi http://www.rjdesignz.com
September 29th, 2008 at 10:46 am

Hi,
I have custom home page for a wordpress site and a page named a s Blog for the blog part. When using the function is_home(), it returns home for both the pages… How can i resolve this issue?
293 christo
September 30th, 2008 at 7:30 am

I have a parent displaying it’s post, and listing it’s child subpages, but I want to include not just links, but the full subpage posts on my front page ( home page ), is this possible to do?
294 Ucuz Bilgisayar http://www.evdealisveris.com
October 3rd, 2008 at 5:47 pm

thank you
295 Jazzy http://www.nerdlike.com
October 6th, 2008 at 12:15 am

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296 svetainiu kurimas http://www.adf.lt/svetainiu-kurimas
October 8th, 2008 at 9:46 am

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297 Alanya http://www.alanya.biz
October 11th, 2008 at 3:14 pm

Another great post from this page, thank you!
298 MOS http://www.ddwt.co.uk
October 11th, 2008 at 5:04 pm

A big thank you - the info on the Wordpress loops was just what I was looking for! You’ve saved my bacon
299 Jean http://www.thesexsocial.com
October 12th, 2008 at 5:26 am

Hey, thanks a lot for this - some great stuff. Saved me making a mashup of the themes I like!
300 art http://www.artvintage.org
October 13th, 2008 at 2:13 am

Great list of wordpress codes you got here. I’m still new to wordpress, actually from blogspot earlier.. All this codes looks new to me. Your guidance is great and very useful. Thank you so much for this.
301 paurl http://chanslife.com/
October 14th, 2008 at 3:44 am

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302 Vincent http://www.pokerbluffer.net
October 16th, 2008 at 12:51 am

Nice theme. Excellent article info. Will use it in the future.
303 Dave http://www.blackberryvsiphone.com
October 16th, 2008 at 2:32 pm

Great information and tips. Thanks!
304 David http://www.webcraft.co.nz
October 19th, 2008 at 6:57 pm

Hi,

Thanks for the awesome hacks. Quick question for you: I am using the ‘display latest posts’ hack that you gave above, it is working well but it doesn’t show the more tag that i have put into the post, it displays all the post text. Is there a way to use the more tag?

As you can probably tell I am a right novice, any help is appreciated.

cheers,

d.
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October 21st, 2008 at 9:07 am

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306 jheLo http://weeklyhow.blogspot.com/
October 28th, 2008 at 2:22 am

thanks for the info!
i love this theme which these webpage is using.. is it available for download?! or is there any similar themes like this which is available for download?! thanks!
^__^
307 rossella sferlazzo http://sferlazzorossella.wordpress.com
October 29th, 2008 at 5:09 am

I love your site design, I hope you will make a tutorial about it!!
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October 31st, 2008 at 1:18 pm

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309 createmo http://tinyurl.com/5b8ksl
November 1st, 2008 at 11:50 pm

Thank you for your website
I made on photoshop backgrounds for myspace,youtube and even more
my backgrounds:http://tinyurl.com/5b8ksl
Hope you had a good day and thank you again!
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311 Deejay http://www.hallamfamily.co.uk
November 4th, 2008 at 4:45 am

With Wordpress now at version 2.6.3, does this still apply?

Again lots of changes in the backend, which we would like to remove……

Great site by the way, bookmarked and now a regular vivitor.

All the best,
D
312 bombadda http://www.getupmelbourne.com
November 7th, 2008 at 7:23 am

Awesome tutorial. but can anybody help me

I want to exclude from the HOME page the following part of my sidebar.php but I can’t seem to figure it out. How can I exclude this block from the home page?

This is the block:
313 bombadda http://www.getupmelbourne.com
November 7th, 2008 at 7:26 am

[php start code]
// this is where 10 headlines from the current category get printed
if ( is_single() ) :
global $post;
$categories = get_the_category();
foreach ($categories as $category) :
?>
314 Premium Wordpress Theme http://premium-wordpress-theme.blogspot.com/
November 12th, 2008 at 3:39 pm

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November 15th, 2008 at 12:35 pm

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November 25th, 2008 at 1:45 am

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November 30th, 2008 at 9:12 am

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November 30th, 2008 at 10:10 pm

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November 30th, 2008 at 10:40 pm

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I’d been headache for days to modify wp template. This post help me to fix it in no time.
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November 30th, 2008 at 11:43 pm

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December 1st, 2008 at 12:53 am

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December 1st, 2008 at 2:48 am

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December 1st, 2008 at 7:20 am

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December 1st, 2008 at 7:39 am

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December 1st, 2008 at 7:42 am

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December 1st, 2008 at 7:48 am

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December 1st, 2008 at 9:59 am

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December 1st, 2008 at 11:24 am

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December 1st, 2008 at 6:16 pm

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December 1st, 2008 at 8:54 pm

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December 1st, 2008 at 10:02 pm

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December 2nd, 2008 at 1:30 am

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December 2nd, 2008 at 1:31 am

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December 2nd, 2008 at 6:19 am

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December 2nd, 2008 at 9:07 pm

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December 3rd, 2008 at 12:47 pm

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December 3rd, 2008 at 6:41 pm

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December 6th, 2008 at 11:38 pm

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December 9th, 2008 at 4:23 am

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December 11th, 2008 at 3:43 am

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December 12th, 2008 at 9:40 am

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December 13th, 2008 at 12:29 pm

Fantastic stuff. Is there anyway to show different banner ads based on the article or post category / sub category?
thanks
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December 14th, 2008 at 8:54 am

Wordpress is really amazing.
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December 14th, 2008 at 11:55 pm

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December 14th, 2008 at 11:58 pm

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December 15th, 2008 at 12:02 am

Nice. Thanks.
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December 15th, 2008 at 5:33 pm

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December 16th, 2008 at 11:12 pm

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December 20th, 2008 at 10:36 pm

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December 21st, 2008 at 11:10 am

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December 22nd, 2008 at 2:17 am

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December 26th, 2008 at 4:27 am

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December 26th, 2008 at 3:36 pm

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December 28th, 2008 at 1:26 pm

I can’t get enough wordpress hacks…I always love learning to do new things with my blog.

I really appreciate how you write from a non-programmers prospective! I’m learning various coding languages right now, but obviously as a beginner, most programming tutorials don’t relate well to me. Thanks for making easy-to-follow solutions for me!
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December 29th, 2008 at 2:22 am

Very helpful and thank you very much for you sharing.
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December 30th, 2008 at 12:41 am

great info. Thanks!
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December 30th, 2008 at 5:50 am

Thanks alot for this, iv been looking for one of the codes in there for so long. Thank You!
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January 2nd, 2009 at 1:47 am

Nice! Topic and good tips.i think is greate website.Thank you. http://www.forextracontent.com
363 manS http://www.fleedy.com
January 2nd, 2009 at 8:00 am

WOW.. I Like the custom field section… Exactly what I want…

TQ for the tutorial…
364 Dawson http://www.medicalstudentblog.co.uk/
January 4th, 2009 at 6:19 am

Thank you for sharing this.
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January 4th, 2009 at 6:53 am

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January 6th, 2009 at 9:13 am

Thank you for sharing.
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January 6th, 2009 at 12:51 pm

Great content tips .All you need to do is customize them with your own …Thank you…
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January 10th, 2009 at 4:19 am

Thank you for your sharing about any wordpress code.
369 kiki http://itanashop.com
January 12th, 2009 at 12:49 am

Thank you…for Great content tips:)
370 Joanna
January 13th, 2009 at 2:18 am

I have a question regarding permalinks..
if you use custom structure like “/%category%/%postname%/” which you suggested, you need apache to have mod_rewrite module loaded..

i got that working on my computer, however, i wonder how do i go about doing that on a web hosting server, since i won’t be having access to the apache server files…
371 Alexandra http://www.gulfjobsmarket.com
January 19th, 2009 at 6:31 am

Hi there.
Thanks for the info on Unique Category template.
What happens if the post is categorised under multiple categories?
Will it still pick up the unique category template if this is one of the many categories selected?
Thank you in advance
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January 20th, 2009 at 4:59 pm

OMG thats so Bamboon Tampoon!
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January 22nd, 2009 at 11:21 am

thanks admin
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January 24th, 2009 at 3:15 am

Very good tipps, & thanks you
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January 24th, 2009 at 10:12 pm

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January 26th, 2009 at 7:27 pm

It helped me a lot.
Thank you
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January 26th, 2009 at 7:29 pm

Great tips. Thanks a lot
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January 31st, 2009 at 1:17 am

Wow! i impress it. Thanks
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February 1st, 2009 at 12:13 pm

thank you for share.
380 baby-bride http://www.thaitopwedding.com
February 2nd, 2009 at 9:04 am

Very nice tip on the custom field. I like it.
381 battipallyaravind http://battipallyaravind.wordpress.com
February 3rd, 2009 at 5:23 am

hi very very nice
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February 3rd, 2009 at 6:51 pm

thanks man for this post
383 John http://www.thejobvault.com
February 5th, 2009 at 9:18 pm

Excellent tips here even for non-coders as you have said. Cheers!
384 Karri
February 8th, 2009 at 4:55 pm

Thanks!

Great tips.

What if wanted to exclude the post title of certain category in index.php aka home page, how this could be done? Anyone?

Should I use:

and instead of echoing, I would tell WordPress to exclude the title of desired category? But how?

Thanks again, keep up the good work.
385 Karri
February 8th, 2009 at 4:59 pm

Sorry, the code I meant to post, didn’t show up. I was asking if I should use:

php if ( in_category(’2′) ) { echo (’class=”feature”‘); }

Thought I clear that one up right away.
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February 9th, 2009 at 12:12 pm

Hey i have some doubts reg the WP desing techniques. . can i have a chat with you. my mail id might have been displayed there.
Thanks in advance
387 Supermance http://www.novickarija.com
February 10th, 2009 at 10:40 pm

wow, very useful articles, im gonna try it on my new blogs, thx !
388 Zack http://zacklive.com
February 11th, 2009 at 6:02 am

Great tips for WordPress theme designer, thank you for sharing, and all your websites are pretty cool, especially the N.Design Studio, I like it very much.
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February 12th, 2009 at 8:16 am

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February 15th, 2009 at 5:51 am

Very nice tip on the custom field. I like it.
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February 17th, 2009 at 7:11 pm

thanks….bro
392 Xantifee http://www.xantifee.com
February 21st, 2009 at 6:56 am

Hey,
tanks for the great post, I am not a developer but I’m trying to build my portfolio site and you really helped me a lot.

I have just one problem that I can’t fix maybe you know the solution. I’m trying to make a loop with only thumbnails from one category and that works but the thumbnails are alle vertically underneath each other (http://www.xantifee.quidante.com/category/portfolio)
This is the code I use in my template is this:

ID, ‘portthumb’, true); ?>
<a href=”"><img src=” ” alt=”"/>

Can you tell how to get the thumbnails to fill the whole 700px horizontally?
393 Gary Aston http://stormoftheeye.co.uk
February 24th, 2009 at 9:09 am

Great stuff Nick, thanks.
394 thepJ http://www.floridalandforsaletoday.com
February 24th, 2009 at 1:35 pm

thank you very much for this useful website. I am new to WP techniques and need to learn a lot really.
395 Basil http://firstgadget.com/index.php
February 25th, 2009 at 11:56 pm

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396 earl samson http://www.earlsamson.com
February 28th, 2009 at 5:27 am

great stuff. clear instructions. practical descriptions. conscise
397 Ray Acosta http://www.rayacosta.com
March 2nd, 2009 at 6:56 pm

Nick, thanks for your site.

Look, i have a problem. I tried to use a .ico file in my site, like your, but doesn´t work. I used dreamwevaer to “locate” the icon, nothing happens.

I saw a couple o posts on the worpress.org forum but didn´t seem ti work. What I did wrong? Any thoughts? Thanks everyone.
398 ImprintVision http://imprintvision.com
March 2nd, 2009 at 10:32 pm

Great tips, thanks….bro I am new to WP techniques and need to learn a lot really.
399 Steven http://wpme.awardspace.com/
March 3rd, 2009 at 2:22 pm

Realy thanks, just what I needed.
400 GH
March 3rd, 2009 at 2:40 pm

Thanks, this is helpful. But you don’t really cover how to change the header and background image for an existing wordpress theme and I think that a lot of people would benefit from that…….hopefully, you can find the time to provide that information…it would be so helpful! and you explain so well!
Thanks!
401 Stephen Fairbanks http://www.youropinionsir.co.uk
March 5th, 2009 at 2:14 pm

Really, really helpful. Thank you very much for this.
402 adamghost http://adamghost.com
March 7th, 2009 at 3:09 am

thank you for your great post!
403 Ruben http://www.poincianatoday.com
March 10th, 2009 at 10:53 pm

Thnx for sharing, I am trying to find if it is possible to customize the “single post” template, per category basis.
404 Darrin http://www.ehow.com/members/drking.html
March 16th, 2009 at 8:05 pm

I can’t thank you enough for this article. I’ve been pulling my hair out trying to figure out how to change a section of php code. You made it so simple for me to fix. Thank you.
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March 17th, 2009 at 10:46 pm

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406 بلياردو http://pool.sarkosa.com
March 21st, 2009 at 12:43 pm

thank’s
407 Robby
March 21st, 2009 at 9:49 pm

“Display Google Ad after the first post”
I been looking for this for a while. Thanks.
also been looking for the tags to only display a file on the home page. I hope it wrks with PHP written with smarty, I been trying to find that for a while.
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March 23rd, 2009 at 2:06 pm

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March 26th, 2009 at 5:26 pm

Theme Very good
411 Matthew Lindsay
March 26th, 2009 at 10:25 pm

Thanks for this. I’m nearly finished with my first Theme. Cheers!
412 RaiulBaztepo
March 28th, 2009 at 4:42 pm

Hello!
Very Interesting post! Thank you for such interesting resource!
PS: Sorry for my bad english, I’v just started to learn this language
See you!
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March 31st, 2009 at 3:22 am

Very nice theme, thank you
414 يوتيوب http://youtube.v22v.net
April 2nd, 2009 at 8:58 am

Thanks for your web!
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April 5th, 2009 at 4:54 pm

nice theme good job.
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April 7th, 2009 at 5:51 pm

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And want to ask you: will you continue to post in this blog in future?
Sorry for my bad english:)
Thank you!
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April 10th, 2009 at 4:52 pm

Thanks! I was searching for a snippet of code that placed an ad after the 1st post.
418 Adam Winogrodzki http://www.junglescripts.com/
April 20th, 2009 at 4:08 am

Thanks ! now i will make a new theme !
419 Toby
April 29th, 2009 at 10:15 am

Been using WP for a while now as a CMS, but some great tips here. Thanks
420 aditia.numberone
May 7th, 2009 at 4:16 pm

hi.. nick can you tell me more about how to change pretty premalink without include index.php
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May 10th, 2009 at 11:03 am

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May 13th, 2009 at 5:34 pm

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May 27th, 2009 at 2:58 am

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June 1st, 2009 at 1:20 am

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June 5th, 2009 at 5:04 am

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June 9th, 2009 at 2:36 am

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June 10th, 2009 at 8:24 am

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June 28th, 2009 at 8:36 pm

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