There are lots of WordPress plugins for contact forms, but wouldn’t it be nice to have more control over the markup? In this tutorial, I am going to show how to use a custom page template to create a contact form in WordPress without a plugin.

Today we are going to look at getting the content of a post using ajax and then display it in a popup box. The popup part is actually the easiest part, thanks to the fantastic Simple Modal plugin for jQuery written by Eric Martin.

This is a complement to our previous post The Ultimative Guide For the_post_thumbnail In WordPress 2.9. In WordPress Version 2.9 probably the most discussed feature is the post thumbnail. Important for this function, it is only working when it is explicitly enabled in the theme.

Learn how to add a post thumbnail to your posts, no more custom fields needed.

With the release of 2.9 WordPress has added some new features and image crop is one of theme, this is a quick guide on how to use it.

WordPress 2.9 RC1 is released and the new post thumbnail function will not change until the final version hopefully.

Here’s a really nifty function written up by Chris Gossmann that’ll check to see if a particular custom page template is active. Chris had to write a SQL query to get this to work so be thankful that he survived to tell us about it.

On some sites, the owners want a consistent look to the entire site – including the blogs of the users. If you are using one of the Buddypress-specific themes out there, here’s how you can make the same layout appear on the member blogs.

First, we need to understand what a splog is. Essentially, it is nothing more than a bot that creates “junk” blogs and embeds links to the splogger’s main site, usually for no other reason than to increase its page rank through trackbacks. They usually seek out the wp-signup.php page that is present in every default WPMU installation. One could simply change the name of the file to something like registration.php and make corresponding changes to all of the references to wp-signup.php in all of the themes used. While effective, this was not the best course of action for me, considering all of the themes used on my blogs. Instead, I dug a little deeper and found some interesting info.

When someone comments on your site, cookies with the information the entered are saved to their computers. WordPress makes it easy to access that information. In fact, in your comments.php template they are ready-to-go PHP variables you can spit out anywhere you’d like.