One of the most common features on any blog or website is category highlighting showing you which category you’re in or the page is in. Wordpress, by default, does not have a function to do this. Thus it’s up to us developers to write our own custom functions to do this, and that’s exactly what’s I’m going to be teaching you in this tutorial.

There has been a long debate in web development community about the CMS capabilities of WordPress. Recently WordPress won Overall Best Open Source CMS Award of 2009 and got 2nd position in best Open Source PHP CMS category.

One of the features I love in Wordpress 2.7 is the ability to have threaded (nested) comments up to 10 levels deep. While viewing comments on this – or any Wordpress 2.7-powered – site, you’ll notice a Reply button (assuming nested discussions are enabled). Clicking that will enable you to reply directly to that comment, keeping discussions in context.

If you ask me, those little rectangular chicklets that people use to display their twitter followers and their Feedburner subscribers are getting old. Just look around. Every blog in the universe seems to have one.

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to write a basic Wordpress Plugin. Coding a wordpress plugin, should have a basic php knowledge, the functions, the operators, the statements

There are many email newsletter solutions like Aweber, one of the most recommended one, but they all charge money. The solution we are going to mention in here by no means can compare to the features provided by the premium service like Aweber, and it must not be considered as the better system. Our solution is rather to give bloggers an affordable and functional method to create newsletter by using the open source software that we all love, WordPress.

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.

This tutorial will help you add a custom Download Button at the end of any post (or anywhere) you want to display with ability to change the download link with simple custom field. Works best for Websites like Photoshop Tutorials or any site where you provide freebies or download links.

Apple have always been Gods in terms of the way they present themselves and their products. I just love the sidebar on the Apple Startpage, and wanted to use the Accordion plugin in jQuery UI to achieve this! As if that’s not enough for me, I want to be able to show and hide it at my pleasure as well. I’m gonna show you how!

People asked me how I mention my recent articles in WordPress sidebar by display post thumbnails and titles with a well-styled. Today, I would like to response their request. This way is being used in some blogs. I’m not sure if they are using the same method as mine, but at least we will get the same result.