Today we’re going to use an often overlooked feature in the Wordpress dashboard to assign and display ratings on links.

By the end of this tutorial, we’ll have set up a comment system which automatically highlights comments according to the commenter’s role. For our example, we’re going to aim for an end result similar to the screenshot below. Comments will be highlighted based on roles of guest, author, and blog administrator.

Making unique page templates is surprisingly simple to do in Wordpress, and is often an overlooked feature. There’s no need for bloating a single file with series of PHP loops to determine the file name and content. This is built in simplicity, and we’ll start with a brief explanation of how it works.

In today’s tutorial we’ll build a similar announcement box into a custom Wordpress theme. It will be controlled from the dashboard, and can be switch on/off while changing the text included without having to edit the source code.

One of the (many) nice updates the comes bundled in Wordpress 2.8 is with the_author_meta() template tag. This tag allows a developer to pull and display specific parts of any user’s information within a theme. Even though variations of this have been included in previous releases, this version has simplified it to a much easier syntax.

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to increase pageviews by adding thumbnails to related posts using the popular YARPP plugin and Wordpress custom fields.