When I was working on my recent post about a duplicate description meta tags bug that were showing up in my WordPress theme, I ran across this site. SEOJeff.com is a good site to visit if you ever want to try to understand what an SEO consultant actually does, and Jeff supplies some great tutorials […]
List of useful jQuery plugins
My friend Kemar turned me on to this list of jQuery plugins maintained by Marc Grabanski self-proclaimed "Jack of all trades in Web development." He took it upon himself to go through the jQuery plugins repository, and he picked out what he felt was noteworthy or most useful in his eyes. It’s a pretty good […]
Useful wordpress comment plugins
Recently, I was looking into spicing up my comments section with plug-ins. I was inspired by the folks over at inkrebels.com and these posts in particular, “20 typical mistakes made by new bloggers and 8 types of posts that get maximum comments. I started looking for ways to make this blog more comment-friendly. I also […]
Using WordPress custom fields to customize display
Jeff Star over at Perishablepress.com produced a great tutorial using a custom image gallery as an example of how to use custom fields. This helped me visualize how to approach my bookmarks section of this blog. This tutorial combined with a trip over to the WordPress Codex section on custom fields, this entry from Smashing […]
Excluding categories from your RSS feed
If you’re customizing WordPress, sometimes you’ll run into a case where you want to exclude a category from your RSS feed. For example – if you want to single out that category into it’s own feed and hide it from the main feed. Jaypee Habaradas over at Jaypeeonline.net has a simple tutorial that walks you […]