I had the situation come up where I need a password-protected post in WordPress. Of course that is super easy in WordPress, you can set up a password for it right in the “Publish” box before publishing. But by default, WordPress appends “Protected: ” to the front of the post title, before and after the password has been entered. I didn’t like that, and thought that the password box was clue enough that the material was password protected.

We were working on a WordPress site that needed to display a sticky post at the top of the blog page with one style, and then below it a list of the most recent posts with a completely different style.

This tutorial comes handy when you have a similar structure for writing your Post. Maybe you end or start with some exact lines and you probably hate writing them when you write a new post every time. Or this also works when you have guest authors or new authors. You can preset text in your Wordpress editors with rules to write a Post or what tags are allowed, etc. Let’s see how’s it done.

Ever since the upgrade to Wordpress 2.9, I’ve been having a problem in the scheduled posts in Wordpress. Everytime I set a post to be scheduled in the future, it used to miss the scheduled time and never get posted. When I checked the status of these posts in the posts admin area, each of these posts had the status “Missed Schedule” next to them.

Let’s say your blog is set to display ten posts per page, as specified via the WordPress Admin under Settings > Reading. Once set, ten posts will appear on your home page, archive pages, search results, and so on. In other words, if it isn’t a single-view page or an actual “page” page, you’re gonna get ten posts per page. It’s a global setting.

WordPress 2.9 allows you via filter to adjust excerpt more string and the length of the excerpt. But if you need several excerpt lengths for different templates, then what?

Using WordPress hooks, it can be very easy to modify WordPress variables to fit your needs. In this recipe, I’m going to show you how to use hooks to automatically insert the author bio after each post.

WordPress has this very cool feature called stick posts. When you make a post sticky, it shows up above your new posts, but only if your theme is set to be that way. In this tutorial we will show you a trick that will let you display latest sticky posts anywhere in your WordPress theme.

Something I’ve been having a bit of a play with lately has been custom post types. We are no longer limited to using “post”, “page”, or “attachment”. WordPress version 2.9 will bring full-fledged functionality for them, although *technically* it’s been around for a while.

One problem with the WYSIWYG editor in WordPress is that if you are trying to manually add in a block of HTML, the editor may try to translate that block into paragraph format, inserting

tags where you didn’t intend, possibly (and most likely) ruining what you were intending to do with your HTML code block.