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 […]

I’m not sure if you’ve heard it yet, but Google is now allowing the search results of your AdSense search boxes to open in a page on your own blog. But even after following the official instructions in the AdSense Help Center, I can’t get it to work on this blog. I’m getting a blank […]

Here’s the second installment of the WordPress (WP) Plugins Feature series - exactly 30 days after the first one (which got attention from some pretty cool places BTW).
For those of you who are new to this series, each monthly installment features WP plugins released that month which to quote myself, “…provide enough new functionality to […]

If you followed the previous entry in the Using WordPress (WP) as a CMS series, you would already be able to get this sort of sexy permalink structure:

Custom Front Page at: http://yoursite.com/
Normal Blog Index at: http://yoursite.com/blog/
Blog Entries at: http://yoursite.com/blog/post-title/
Blog Categories at: http://yoursite.com/blog/category/category-title/
Blog Monthly Archives: http://yoursite.com/blog/2006/08/

But this isn’t complete. Let’s now branch into the permalink structure of WP’s […]