Archive - July 2010

Pagination in posts

I got an inquiry from one of my blog’s readers about post pagination, which I used in my previous post. Well, it’s very simple. To split your post into separate sub-pages, simply use the WordPress Quicktag, <!–nextpage–>. Remember the <!–more–> tag? It cuts the post where it’s placed when the post appears in the blog’s [...]

Mobile WordPress by WPtouch

I’ve recently purchased a premium plugin for creating the mobile edition of my WordPress sites: WPtouch™ 2.0 Pro. I’d been using the free version of WPtouch (up to v1.9.16) and had been quite happy with it, so I decided to give the paid version a go. The premium version promised better features, you see. And, [...]

Shortlinks for posts

Since WordPress 3.0 was launched, I’m sure you’ve noticed the Get Shortlink button below the post title input field in the Add New / Edit Post screen, beside the post’s permalink. (See image below.) It’s a nifty feature made available to us by good old WordPress.org for shortening our posts’ URLs. Clicking on it will [...]

Oyako themes

Oyako (親子) is a Japanese term that means “parent-child”. In Japanese cuisine there’s a tasty dish I like that’s called oyako-don, which is a bowl of rice toppings of chicken and egg. And why am I talking about this? WordPress’ child themes! Ever got tired of copying over the changes you’ve made to your templates [...]