Back in July of this year I re-designed our website here at Jestro. One important feature I wanted to implement was a lifestreaming / microblogging solution that made it easy to share links to interesting content along with regular blog posts.

Sometimes you may need to get all custom fields from a specific post or page. Thanks to Paul, who contributed to WpRecipes, for sharing a function that do the job.

In this article we will share a tutorial that will give you the option to choose a different sidebar to be displayed for each post and page for WordPress. This is an excellent snippet to bookmark for all WordPress theme designer and other users who would like to add this functionality.

Installing a WordPress theme is easy to do and can be done many times through the life of your blog. It is also fun to do and can be addicting. The best part about it is that many of the themes you can use are free so you can change the look of your site as often as you want to try and find that perfect look for your blog.

Are you running WordPress? And how are you controlling all options of your current wordpress theme? WordPress offers you get_option() function to get the options of your wordpress. However, all of default options wordpress gives to you are not enough. You maybe want to add more options that easy to implement on your theme design. How to do that? This tutorial will help you create options and administrate them in wordpress admin page.

Simple tutorial on how to make your own retweet button while using bitly to shorten long post urls

Welcome to part one of an ongoing series of posts teaching you how to secure your blog against hackers.

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.

I’m not going to lie – the widget built into WordPress for searching your blog is ugly. Just today I was looking to add some functionality to the blog here, and upon adding the Search widget to my sidebar, discovered how plain and outdated it looked. After some quick thinking I came up with this simple method to making your own search box without any server-side coding, and thought I’d share with you guys.

How do I display code in a non-executable format in WordPress?
Good question! What’s even better is that you are about to discover the answer.