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The complete guide to creating widgets in WordPress 2.8
In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through the steps of setting up a widget, its settings form, and displaying it on your site. At the end of the tutorial, you can download an example plugin to build from. Of course, you can apply this to your themes as well.
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Template Tags/wp list categories « WordPress Codex
The title_li parameter sets or hides a title or heading for the category list generated by wp_list_categories. It defaults to '(__('Categories')', i.e. it displays the word "Categories" as the list's heading. If the parameter is set to a null or empty value, no heading is displayed. The following example code excludes categories with IDs 4 and 7 and hides the list heading:
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WordPress › Support » Too much space above WP calendar widget.
There is too much space between the WP built-in calendar widget and whatever is above it. I can move it to any position in the order and still get this gap. The only related CSS I can find modifies the calendar that is there if the user selects no widgets at all.
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WordPress › Support » Is it possible to label widgets without name showing on page
One solution would be to hide the widget titles using CSS. In you theme's functions.php file find the section the defines the dynamic sidebar and see what tags are going to be generated around a widget title (or look at your webpage source code). This is typically going to be h2, h3 or h4 tags, depending on the theme. You can change what tags go around the widget title with thi code:
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Template Tags/the excerpt « WordPress Codex
Displays the excerpt of the current post with [...] at the end, which is not a "read more" link. If you do not provide an explicit excerpt to a post (in the post editor's optional excerpt field), it will display a teaser which refers to the first 55 words of the post's content. Also in the latter case, HTML tags and graphics are stripped from the excerpt's content. This tag must be within The Loop.
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The manual Excerpt in WordPress: What, why, how, tips and plugins - op111.net
WordPress excerpts, which are not excerpts in the common sense of the word, make a WordPress site easier to browse and its content easier to discover. When also used as META descriptions, good excerpts bring more and better traffic from search engines.
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Customizing the Read More « WordPress Codex
If you have set your WordPress site to display post excerpts on the front or home page, you will want visitors to click on the title or a link to encourage them to continue reading your post or article, right? WordPress makes this technique easy, and customizable.
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Evermore: a WordPress plugin » Semicolon
Evermore is a WordPress plugin that automatically displays short previews of your posts on your home page. Each preview includes a link to the full post. Evermore is simple to use — just install it and it starts working straight away. If you want, you can also customise the length and appearance of the previews.
Blog home pages are often too full. By default, WordPress displays the last ten posts on the main page; visitors have to do a lot of scrolling to see if there’s something interesting. With Evermore, visitors see a short preview of each post; they can easily scan your posts, find something interesting, and become hooked. -
Customizing Your Sidebar « WordPress Codex
The sidebar, also known as the menu, is a narrow vertical column often jam-packed with lots of information about a website. Found on most WordPress sites, the sidebar is usually placed on the right or left-hand side of the web page, though in some cases, a site will feature two sidebars, one on each side of the main content where your posts are found. This tutorial examines some of the information items and features generally found in the sidebar. After reading this article you’ll feel more comfortable in adding or changing the content of your own sidebar.
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How to add a dynamic sidebar in Wordpress?
Do you ever wonder that you have one sidebar, but you want to display widgets in other places, and they don’t come in with manual codes that you can enter in the page and avoid using the widgets.
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How to add sidebar(s) to a Wordpress Theme | Blog Oh Blog
You like a Wordpress theme on the Internet but Oh!… What’s this?? The theme has only one sidebar! You need more than one and are on the verge of switching to some other theme with more sidebars. But wait!! Let me teach you how to add an extra sidebar or sidebars to your favorite theme. People who know PHP will find it easy to follow but even novices can easily do it using the code that I have provided in this tutorial. I am assuming that you already know HTML and a bit of CSS.
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WordPress › Support » Removing bullets from only SOME lists in sidebar
Is there a way to do this without creating another class for the two sections I don't want bulleted?
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Styling Lists with CSS « WordPress Codex
By default, most lists (and some list items) in WordPress are identified by id or class attributes, making styling lists easy. With fairly simple changes to the style.css file, you can display the list horizontally instead of vertically, feature dynamic menu highlighting, change the bullet or numbering style, remove the bullets altogether, or any combination of these.
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Image Links « Support « WordPress.com
To insert a link using an image from your blog’s Media Library, follow these steps:
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WordPress › BlogWell's Simple Image Link Widget « WordPress Plugins
So you want to put an ad or an image in your sidebar. And you want it to link to another site. And you want to do it easily, without having to muck about with the code in the text widget.
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WordPress › Support » Sidebar problem
have a sidebar issue. The title "Pages" is showing up above my menu and I've tried to remove it without success.
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WordPress › Google XML Sitemaps « WordPress Plugins
This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog. It supports all of the WordPress generated pages as well as custom ones. Everytime you edit or create a post, your sitemap is updated and all major search engines that support the sitemap protocol, like ASK.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO, are notified about the update.
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Using Images « WordPress Codex
Current versions of WordPress now have image alignment built-in. WordPress adds CSS classes to align the image to the right, left, and center of a paragraph, so the text will wrap around the image.
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