The Loop is the heart of WordPress. Creating multiple loops is the way to go if you want to display your content in inspiring and novel ways. Featured posts, portfolio listings, different styled categories, they are all created using multiple WordPress Loops.

With so many solutions out there for managing your website, you may wonder “Why would I use WordPress as a CMS when it wasn’t intended to be so?” There is no doubt that WordPress is primarily intended for blog development, but that’s not all it can do. There are many advantages to using WordPress over other content management systems.

Today we’re going to use an often overlooked feature in the WordPress dashboard to assign and display ratings on links.

WordPress is a great solution for creating blog, but that isn’t all it can do. The incredible power and simplicity of this platform allows you to create personal web pages or entire web sites in minutes, using all the functions of this environment with minimal effort.

With the incredible popularity of Twitter theses days, many people are asking themselves how can they create their own Twitter-like network for their family, friends or company. This may be a lot easier than you think. In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to do it easily, using WordPress.

In today’s tutorial we’ll build a similar announcement box into a custom WordPress theme. It will be controlled from the dashboard, and can be switch on/off while changing the text included without having to edit the source code.

Bookmarks are those things called Links in your WordPress dashboard. We’re going to use them to create our navigation menu.

Blogrolls and long link lists have pretty much died out in the blogging world. Using them to link out to all your blogging friends isn’t as cool as it used to be.

In this post I’ll show you how to create a gallery of images using your WordPress bookmarks, also known as links. This technique can actually be used for more than an image gallery though.

One of the best ways to liven up a blog, and something that most of the premium themes look to do by default, is adding images to your posts. The usual method of doing this is by adding the image URL via a custom field. But there is a better and more flexible way.