The WordPress Evangelist

This is for those of you WordPressers who use YARPP (a.k.a. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin) and any of the excellent themes by WooThemes for your blogs. Especially if you’d like to spice up the plugin’s output a bit. I use YARPP on almost all of my WordPress sites, and I’ve started tweaking the plugin’s [...]

Looking around in the WP codex, it dawned on me that there’s not much yet that’s been documented about how WordPress lets us manipulate custom taxonomies. Since WP2.3, we’ve been able to create custom post types, which can have their own custom categories and custom tags. The beauty of this is that, you can divide [...]

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 [...]

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 (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 [...]

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 [...]