Among the great new features introduced in WordPress 2.5 is the built-in support for Gravatars, or Globally Recognized Avatars. Global because once you sign up for a free account your email address is associated with the image you chose and will be automatically displayed on any web page that supports the feature. To enable this [...]

For some odd reason I’ve seen an increase in the number of threads at the forums from people unable to login to their WordPress install. I’m not sure if they have simply forgotten their login details or if the information in the database was somehow corrupted but the threads are very real. If you find [...]

Of all the email services I have tried over the years I must admit my favourite is Google’s Gmail. Microsoft’s new Windows Live Mail is a big improvement over Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail is looking good these days but I love Gmail. The only complaint I have with the service is the appearance of the [...]

If you’re a rabid WordPress fan like me you no doubt love to peruse the documentation at the Codex. I know I do. I could spend hours pouring over the information and quite often I do. Usually after coming across some useful little nugget I’ll hurry over to my local install and put theory to [...]

Now that spring has arrived I’ve been busy with the traditional spring cleanup. The basement is a mess. It’s amazing how much junk collects over the course of the winter without you even realizing. The same can be said for the backyard although it is not nearly as bad. So I thought this would be [...]

It seems that there are more and more galleries or theme sites popping up offering free WordPress themes. Sounds good right? As with anything else in life all is not what it seems. Many of these theme sites insert obfuscated code into the themes they offer, usually in the footer and certainly without the permission [...]

Although this post is a departure from my usual ramblings on politics or WordPress it is important nevertheless and I felt compelled to share it. The subject matter is, you guessed it, life and death. This has significant meaning in my case as we recently lost a dear family friend - a kind and gentle [...]

How to remove sidebar on 1 page, and keep it on the others? This was a question asked in the forums the other day and upon answering it I thought to myself what interesting fodder for another post! I supplied the original poster with 2 methods on how to achieve the result but in this [...]

In a previous post I showed you how to apply a specific style sheet to particular pages or categories. (See Create Pages With a Different Style Sheet) In this post I’ll show you how to style an individual post such as I have done with this one. Why do that? For several reasons. Perhaps you [...]

After helping out in the WordPress Support Forum for about a year now one thing has become painfully clear and that is the refusal of many people to use the damn search function. Many of the questions asked are the same ones over and over and have been answered as many times. What is so [...]