Archive - How-To

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 [...]

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 [...]

WP3.0: multi-site enabled!

WordPress 3.0 is set to be released this month, and I can’t tell you how very excited I am to get my hands on it. I do have the beta2 version, and I’ve been playing around with it. There are quite a few new stuff you can expect from WP3.0, but the most significant update [...]