After having had to read (and post to) blogs under the strict limitations of a PDA, I’ve finally realised how important it is to make blogs PDA-friendly. “Finally” because I’ve actually read (quite a number of) articles promoting usability for handhelds (and you probably have as well), but never found the drive to conquer sheer […]
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 […]
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 […]
Before we start on the meat of the Using WordPress (WP) as a CMS series, there’s some fundamental technical stuff we have to get out of the way first. First on the list is: Custom front/main/index pages.
What For?
By default, WordPress’ front page displays a reverse chronological list of your posts - with whatever extras you […]
WordPress (WP) has always been a highly versatile blogging platform, even way back in v1.2. So versatile that many have attempted to push it to the next level, and use it as a more conventional content management system (CMS) - not unlike Drupal, XOOPS, Joomla, and gang.
And if the coverage a recent post on using […]
It isn’t anything spectacular or revolutionary, but it might come in useful when using WordPress as a more conventional content management system (CMS) - as I had to do recently. What it does is to list the recent child pages (also known as subpages) of a particular parent page or the one the template tag […]
