Podcasts are nothing new. You probably have one or two you listen to or watch on a regular basis yourself but have you ever considered creating one? It's not as difficult as you might think. In fact, it's incredibly easy! If you are a blogger or content producer of a video/multimedia blog, having a podcast just makes sense. Why turn away the opportunity to reach anyone and everyone who has......

Given the success of Pinterest and it's recent jump into the position of the 3rd most popular social media site on the web after Facebook and Twitter, it's no surprise that someone has designed a clone theme for WordPress. The good news for those of you who would like to start a Pinterest like website of your own, the clone design is really really good. The aptly named Pinterest Theme......

P3 Plugin Performance Profiler is a useful WordPress plugin from GoDaddy that creates a report that shows you which plugins are slowing down your website. By analysing the report you can narrow down problem plugins and speed up your website. After installing the plugin you have the option of either an automatic or manual scan. The difference is the manual scan lets you choose which page is scanned whilst the......

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 WordPress. The first few queries we discuss will be queries you can run on......

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 to do the more complex work. Therefore, the normal user interface will remain in......

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 pages and posts as those are two of the most used actions for beginning......

Today I will be showing you how you create a template to display all links from your blogroll (or link manager as WordPress now calls it). I will be using the current default WordPress theme Twenty Eleven in my example though the steps that I will be showing you can be applied to any theme. The blogroll was a common feature on blog sidebars a few years ago. It can......

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" -- not in the WordPress definition of post. The reason, of course, is that......

If you use JetPack Stats on your site (formerly released as a stand alone plugin called WordPress.com stats), you may be familiar with the smiley face image that it adds to the bottom of every page on your site. The smiley face is used to help track stats on your page. I'm not a huge fan of it so I looked into how you can remove it. Thankfully,......

In order to login to your WordPress website a user must know their username and password. If a user can't remember their password they can request a new password using their name or their email address. Many users use the same email address whenever they register with a website so there's a good chance that a user will forget their username but know the email address. Unfortunately, WordPress doesn't......