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.

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.