Archive for the “WordPress Hacks” category

All Killer WordPress Websites are Built Around These Concepts

by MattDunlap on July 20, 2010

I’ve been coding with Wordpress for a long time now. All the way back to when there was a my-hacks.php file. Shortly thereafter wordpress introduced plugins and widgets. Over those years I go back to a few concepts that make blogs really functional.

Few Improvements to the WPHacks.com Design

by Kyle Eslick on August 12, 2009

This post is just a heads up to let everyone know that the WordPress Hacks theme has been updated with a few new features added, courtesy of my friends at Blog Design Studio.  Some you will notice right away, while others you may not. 
Here are the notable changes included with this new update:

Threaded Comments – Now that the [...]

WordPress News & Notes – July 24, 2009

by Alex Denning on July 24, 2009

These days there are so many excellent WordPress blogs and articles, it can be hard to keep up with all the brilliant WordPress articles around, so here are some great articles I’ve saved on my feed reader; feel free to add some posts you’ve found around the web in the comments.

First up, ‘10 Handy WordPress [...]

How to: Use Thumbnails Generated by WordPress

by Alex Denning on July 22, 2009

One of ten brilliant tips that I shared yesterday on my blog – display images on your blog’s homepage without any custom fields or any additional functions.php script, something I first saw on  WebDeveloperPlus.
How do you do it? First log in, on the sidebar select ‘Media’ (which is under ‘Settings’). You’ll then be taken to [...]

Alex Denning: A New Contributor to WordPress Hacks

by Alex Denning on July 20, 2009

Editor’s Note: Although Alex has published a few posts here in the past, he is going to ramp up his submissions over the coming weeks, so we decided he would do an introduction post.  If you’d like to write for WordPress Hacks, you can get more information here, then contact us.
After Kyle announced in his [...]

Follow WordPress Hacks on Twitter!

by Kyle Eslick on June 25, 2009

Based upon the emails we get each month from readers who are trying to find our Twitter feed, I feel this post is probably long overdue, but I wanted to point out to our readership that we do in fact have a Twitter page!   If you’d like to follow WPHacks.com on Twitter, you can get our updates here (@HackWordPress). 
Our Twitter feed includes [...]