Have you ever wanted more control over how posts are categorized in WordPress? We did a project recently where the client wanted a WordPress story authoring site. He wanted to use normal categories for genres such as horror, sci-fi, etc. But he also needed to sort them by storylines because the premise for the site ...

One of the biggest problems with fonts is that if the person visiting your site doesn’t have them installed on their local machine, they won’t see them. This can cause issues because you never know what font it might get replaced with and what it could look like for each visitor. In this tutorial we ...

The WordPress Loop The Loop refers to the section of PHP code used to display posts. Below we took the loop statement from the WordPress Index.php file that we use to start custom WordPress themes with. Here is what a basic loop looks like: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...

This tutorial will help you learn more formatting options that will help make your blog your own. Make your blog interesting and unique instead of being forced to deal with the same standard WordPress default settings everyone else uses. Formatting Date and Time by Altering the_time Function WordPress normally shows the date at the bottom ...

There are all sorts of unique and interesting bits of information you can access from a WordPress database if you know how to do it. In this tutorial, we are going to cover some of the most useful WordPress database queries that you should know in order to maximize the benefits of your database in ...

In this tutorial, we will discuss the finer points of how to create a custom admin page. We are creating an easy-to-use admin page for less advanced users who more than likely will only be adding or editing posts and pages from their WordPress admin area. These are the type of users that hire professionals ...

In this tutorial we will create an easy-to-use admin page for users who may not appreciate the complexity of the stock WordPress admin page. Our new admin page will be an add-on to the current admin section rather than a replacement for it. We are simply adding a new alternate, easy-to-use admin page for managing ...

The WordPress function query_posts is an incredibly useful and easy-to-use method for altering the results of The Loop. The Loop, as you may know, is the method that WordPress uses to gather up the information about the post or posts on the page. In this case, I use post in the generic sense of “content” ...