Charles Gnilka's List: WordPress

I have seen some good tutorials on creating widgets for WordPress 2.8 floating around the WordPress-o-Sphere. But, I didn’t feel any of them really covered practical usage. I want to show you how to create a widget for real-world development using WordPre

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:

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

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

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

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.

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 cust

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

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.

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.

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 s

Is there a way to do this without creating another class for the two sections I don't want bulleted?

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.

To insert a link using an image from your blog’s Media Library, follow these steps:

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.

have a sidebar issue. The title "Pages" is showing up above my menu and I've tried to remove it without success.

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

WordPress makes it easy for you to add images to your WordPress site. You can upload them directly from within WordPress by using the built-in file uploading utility in the post screen. Or you could use any FTP Client software to upload many images to you