Claudio of the WordPress Italy blog recently translated one of my earlier articles in the Using WP as a CMS series into Italian.
Check it out (that is, if you understand Italian :)).
P.S.: It’s really nice to see that despite the rampant scraping that many of us are victims of, there are still those who […]

I’d wager that a substantial percentage of product bloggers have learnt the power of Chitika eMinimalls (aff link) over the past year or so - perhaps even to the extent that their eMinimalls revenue exceeds AdSense on some of their product blogs.
So, it shouldn’t be surprising to find bloggers who want to place multiple […]

In Part 1, we looked at how to setup a simple (mainly graphic-type) portfolio site using nothing other than WordPress (WP). Modifying the WordPress loop to display thumbnails of your projects, individual project pages that displayed a larger image, and categorical listings that also displayed project thumbnails - all in an organised manner - were […]

In response to a WordPress support thread, I whipped up this WordPress plugin to display a list of the most popular categories in a particular time period (e.g. last 7 days, 30 days, etc.), based on the number of posts assigned to your categories in that time period.
You might prefer a graphical explanation, so […]

I wanted to get this out as fast as I could given that my post on 5 Reasons to Use WordPress (WP) as a CMS has been published. Why? Because I’d rather not get people too hyped up over WP’s non-blog content management system (CMS) abilities.
I’m not saying WP can’t work great as a more […]

David (of BloggingPro), being on vacation, is currently publishing a set of contributions by external bloggers. Luckily, my contribution was accepted, and was just published today. It’s an article titled 5 Reasons to Use WordPress as a CMS, and is part of the theoretical foundation behind my Using WP as a CMS series.
It’s something I […]

Now that we’re done with a large portion of the technical basics of Using WordPress (WP) as a CMS, let’s continue on with the next step: Using WP for a portfolio site (primarily graphics and design-based).
If you need a brief overview of portfolio sites and a couple of examples of WP-powered ones, take a short […]

First off, allow me to apologize to those who’ve commented and e-mailed me on various bugs and feature requests for the Recent Child Pages plugin. I promised to release an update a couple of days back, but couldn’t meet that commitment. Sorry, again.
Anyway, here’s what has changed from v0.5 to v0.7:

Added ability to draw excerpts […]