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New site: SolutionsforWP.com – How to do it in WordPress

Mar 9, 2010 How to 10 Comments

For quite a long time, I’ve had an difficulty keeping track of all the cool, interesting, and useful WordPress solutions I read in posts and forums. I bookmark things, put them on Delicious, etc. but just end up forgetting where I put them and then spend time Googling around for that thing I read about 6 months ago. Finally, I got the bright idea of using a WordPress database to keep track of them all, and pretty soon I ended up with another website.

How To Efficiently Manage Your Images In WordPress

Aug 10, 2009 How to 15 Comments

You know how sometimes you find that you’ve been doing things the hard way for a long time, and then realize that if you’d only taken the time to think about it, there was a much easier way to do it? That’s how I was with managing the images in my sites until recently.

Photoshop to WordPress: A Basic Guide

May 27, 2009 How to 33 Comments

Converting a design mockup to a WordPress theme can be a daunting process when you first start out. There are so many steps involved it can be hard to know where to begin. This overview will help with the big picture so you’re ready to dive in and create a great theme.

How to manage (almost) any site with WordPress

Mar 2, 2009 How to 19 Comments

Every time I set up a new site with WordPress I love it more. I’m continually amazed at how flexible and well-designed it is. Many people still think of WP as a “blogging” platform, which it is of course, but it’s really more appropriately termed a content management system (CMS). I simply wouldn’t consider setting [...]

How to choose a good designer

Aug 25, 2008 How to 47 Comments

I have had several clients tell me of bad experiences with designers in the past who were difficult to work with and they didn’t feel they had gotten a good value for their money. In the end, they regretted having hired them. When you are looking to launch a new site and have chosen to [...]

How to style images in your blog posts

Apr 3, 2008 How to 75 Comments

Do you ever have a need to override the way that your theme styles images? Maybe your theme is set to put a border around images in your posts, or float them over to the left, etc., and normally you’re okay with that, but for certain posts/images, you’d like them to be styled differently. [...]

How to set up a sideblog

Feb 18, 2008 How to 31 Comments

I like the idea of a sideblog- there are always little things that I think are cool, or posts I’ve written for other sites that I’d like to link to here, but they’re just not worthy of a full post. I know quite a few people put asides in the main body of the [...]

A Basic Guide to WordPress Template Tags

Nov 12, 2007 How to 6 Comments

Recently a reader asked how to add the time of a post to a theme, so I thought I would give a basic overview of WordPress template tags. This is one of those things that seems like it must be really complicated, but actually isn’t.
What is a template tag? Template tags are used [...]

The easy way to learn CSS and customize your blog theme

Oct 22, 2007 How to 45 Comments

With the release of my DIYTheme last week, I promised I would show you step by step how to customize it. I know there are a lot of people who would probably like to change some things about their current theme, but just aren’t sure where to begin, and don’t want to go editing [...]

6 Essential Time Management Strategies

Sep 26, 2007 How to 43 Comments

Several months ago I did a post on productivity as a part of a group writing project. Vivien at Inspiration Bit has a new group writing project going on a similar topic – time management, which is something I think most of us deal with on a daily basis. I have a toddler at [...]