With WordPress 2.7 came the post_class function. This gives a set of CSS classes to a post, depending on what’s in the post (e.g. based on what category it is in).

It’s been talked about time and time again … what do we do about the IE6 problem?

Of course, there are a couple of options already available to you: you can make IE6 crash when users visit, you can move on to bigger and better things and ignore IE6 altogether, or you can do like I do and display a little message to IE6 visitors encouraging them to upgrade (this plugin makes that pretty easy).

Everybody loves SEO, and everybody loves to have a well read blog or website. In the digital world having a well read blog is not all about writing cool, original and unique stuff. You need to make a sacrifice to the all mighty god known as Google, and that sacrifice is known as SEO.

Recently, one site we were working on needed a sidebar that would show the 4 most recent posts on the site. But here’s the catch: they wanted only one post per author. And, each author had to have the role of “author” as opposed to contributor or admin.

Often called a revolution, Twitter is a very easy and cool way to communicate and promote your blog or service. In this article, I have compiled 10 very useful code snippets to interact with Twitter in your web dev projects.

We did some research to find out how the integration of Facebook with WordPress and vice versa works, or — in other words — how you can present your WordPress blog on Facebook or use the functionality of Facebook on your WordPress-powered blog. Both of these can be achieved with a set of WordPress plug-ins, a couple of which we’ll present here in detail.

There is a good chance that you do not want to have every page you have created shown on your sites navigation section. You may have private pages, that you only want to direct certain people to, or you may have so many pages that your navigation will overwhelm users.

Your website may be top notch but what’s the use of an online presence if no one can find it? In this quick start guide to search engine optimization we’ll review an assortment of tactics to increase your page ranking.

You can quickly and safely migrate any blog from Blogger to WordPress without losing RSS Subscribers or human visitors and there’s also a way to pass all that Google Juice from the old blogspot.com address to your new WordPress blog.

Since I’ve been playing around with user management a lot lately, I thought I’d share a simple technique I picked up. This technique will allow you to easily add new user profile fields that your blog’s users can use to input more information about themselves.