This is far from a difficult thing to do. It’s actually so easy, its ridiculous. But I see so many people installing plugins and doing really complicated page template hacks to get this right, that I think a post dedicated to this is justified. Here’s the 30 second trick to getting a static front page.

This basically boils down to posting video clips on your website instead of (or in addition to) writing blog articles. These can be your own videos shot on your digital camera or relevant clips filmed by others and sourced from YouTube or similar sites.

Here are ten tips I’ve got to improve your WordPress theme.

WordPress has loads of cool features built-in for those of us who like to treat post categories differently, but sometimes a little extra hacking is required.

There are a ton of WordPress themes out there these days, so it can be hard to get your theme noticed. The solution? Use the ten tricks listed in this post to make your theme stand out from the crowd.

Including a Theme Options page for your theme is one of the best ways to increase ease-of-use for managing a complex theme. However, a few quick Google searches later and most people give up. Such a great inclusion for theme design appears to have such little documentation, that it appears to be one of those heavily guarded secrets which only the crème de la crème of designers hold the key to.

Theme Options pages are growing in popularity among quality Wordpress themes. They provide the user with greater customization control over their website without having to know a hint of HTML or CSS. If you’re a theme developer, user-friendliness should be one of the top things in your mind when you are creating a new theme for public use. You have to remember, not all of the people that use your theme are going to be as code-savvy as you, and thus you’re going to have to accommodate to this. Theme Options pages are the perfect solution to this.

Creating a Wordpress theme isn’t as hard as it initially may seem. It is simple a matter of learning and executing the different components that holds a wp theme together. In this tutorial we have included all the necessary steps in building your very own theme. So let’s get to it.

One of the (many) nice updates the comes bundled in Wordpress 2.8 is with the_author_meta() template tag. This tag allows a developer to pull and display specific parts of any user’s information within a theme. Even though variations of this have been included in previous releases, this version has simplified it to a much easier syntax.

The default text used for the “read more” link in most themes is either ‘Read the rest of this entry »’ or ‘(more…)’ depending on whether your theme was based on the default or classic WordPress theme respectively. The problem is that the default text is neither appealing nor any good from an SEO point.