This is far from a difficult thing to do. It’s actually so easy, its ridiculous. But I see so many people installing plugins and doing really complicated page template hacks to get this right, that I think a post dedicated to this is justified. Here’s the 30 second trick to getting a static front page.

I’ve had a recent request regarding a popular tweak for WordPress – that is, to add custom page header images to any page in WordPress. There are one or two plugins that do this, but with a bit of creativity you can accomplish this very easily using WordPress custom fields and it’s built in image uploader. Here’s how:

I’ve just finished a project for a client who wanted an interesting feature on his site. He wanted a block of content to be turned on and off whenever he needed it. So when he wanted to promote something, he wanted to add some content and have it display until he was ready to ‘turn it off’. I came up with a unique means of doing this using custom fields. Here’s how you can achieve this: