Category Archives: Tutorials

Revisited: Creating Custom Write Panels in WordPress

An updated approach to creating custom WordPress Write Panels on your new post pages.
Posted by Ian Stewart in Tutorials

A Quick Way To Post HD Video On Your Blog With VideoPress

A quick guide on getting started with Automattic’s VideoPress service.
Posted by Ian Stewart in Tutorials

New feature in WordPress 2.9 – the_post_image()

In WordPress 2.9 there will be a simple solution to adding an image to a post just like in your favorite magazine Themes.
Posted by Ian Stewart in Tutorials

How to make TimThumb work with WordPress mu

TimThumb is a popular image resizing script – but it’s never worked properly with WordPress MU, so Ben Gillbanks changed that.
Posted by Ian Stewart in Tutorials

Become A WordPress Theme Developer Who Rocks In Four Steps

In this post you can find some useful tutorials that will help you become a star WordPress Theme Designer.
Posted by Ian Stewart in Tutorials

How To Backup and Restore a WordPress Database

A healthy backup of your database could one day be the only means of restoring your blog should something go wrong such as a bad plug-in installation or an attack by blog hackers.
Posted by Ian Stewart in Tutorials

Automatic WordPress Thumbnail Without a Custom Field

This trick is done by mixing some WordPress hacks and a php script. The PHP script is Darren Hoyt’s timthumb.php, the hack is WPRecipe’s how to get the first post image. Together, they’ll grab your image and resize it for you!
Posted by Ian Stewart in Tutorials

A better WordPress tag cloud

A bit of copy & paste code that will make your WordPress tag clouds better looking and better performing.
Posted by Ian Stewart in Tutorials

wp-content in Code is a Tell for Common WordPress Coding Mistakes

Regularly while reviewing themes and plugins, Automattic team member, Lloyd Budd, see URLs or paths that include ‘wp-content’. This is a often a hint of a WordPress coding mistake.
Posted by Ian Stewart in Tutorials
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