How to style images in your blog posts

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...

How to set up a sideblog

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...

A Basic Guide to WordPress Template Tags

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?...

6 Essential Time Management Strategies

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...

How to put a permanent redirect in your htaccess file

Ok, this is going to be a techie post, so beware, but I always find it helpful when I’m searching for solutions to problems to read about how others have solved similar ones. My permalinks broke over the weekend. I still don’t know why, but they just...