Awhile ago I showed you how to use a technique called pullquotes in your WordPress blog. (see Using Pullquotes) In this post I’ll show you how to add another visually interesting feature to your posts called dropcaps. What is a dropcap? A dropcap, much like a pullquote, is a technique often used in print whereby [...]

I’ve been messing around with WordPress 2.6 on a local install for quite some time and must say I really like it. The folks in the forums that have been complaining about the missing “Press It” feature will be happy to hear it has made a return. While trying to keep current with the wp-testers [...]

While researching new blog tools/toys/enhancers I came across an interesting service called Zemanta. What is Zemanta? I’m glad you asked. It’s a small application installed as a Firefox extension that adds a sidebar to the write post window of your favourite blog software. As you write your post this nifty tool will automatically scan your [...]

Oh how the mighty have fallen. Unless you’ve been living under a rock these last few weeks you know all about Tung Do (aka Small Potato) and the sale of his website wpdesigner.com to Miami entrepreneur Pawel Ciszewski. While the figure being thrown about is $65K and change, some sources claim it to be much [...]

Since I’ve been helping out in the WordPress Support Forums for the last year I’ve noticed numerous threads about some common error messages encountered by various bloggers. I’m going to highlight 2 such messages and show you how easy they are to correct.
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at [...]

The results are in for the 2008 Webware 100 awards and both WordPress and its hosting service WordPress.com have taken home the bacon in the category of Publishing. Congrats to all involved!

Watcha gonna do Anil when the Big W runs wild all over you brother?

Spam on .edu blogs? From Ars Technica,
Think back to the time when you filled out university applications. Which of the following might have suggested to you that the educational institution in question was not a great choice?
1. Its web site is the world’s worst-looking WordPress page
2. It has been sued by the State of Hawaii [...]

Here is a little tip to force WordPress to use clean permalinks for search results. Despite using pretty permalinks you may have noticed WordPress returns search results as yoursite.com/?s=SEARCHTERMS instead of yoursite.com/search/SEARCHTERMS. I’ll show you how to achieve the latter.
First of all, create a new file called search.php which contains the following,
<?php header(’Location: http://www.yoursite.com/search/’ . [...]

In my previous post I showed you how to easily add pullquotes to your WordPress blog by simply adding a new class to the existing blockquote. Now I’ll show you a way to do it without manually adding class=”mag” to every blockquote tag. We do it by adding a new button to the Text Editor [...]

Although I prefer the minimalistic approach to web design there are some design features I’ve seen on other sites that I thought were kind of cool. For example, some of the big news and magazine sites make use of a styling technique called pullquotes. A pullquote is a little block of text that is highlighted [...]