Contextually changing your theme’s stylesheet
How to dynamically load different stylesheets when you need to drastically alter the style of specific pages on your WordPress-powered site.
How to filter a WordPress theme’s ‘more link’ text
A tutorial on how to create custom more link text for your WordPress theme using the_content_more_link filter hook.
Showing the post password form for excerpts in WordPress
How to replace excerpts for password-protected posts in WordPress with a password form instead of the standard no excerpt message.
Using custom taxonomies to create a movie database
A tutorial on how I used custom taxonomies in WordPress to build a complete movie database and an explanation of how taxonomies can be used to enhance your site.
The complete guide to creating widgets in WordPress 2.8
WordPress 2.8 has a new widget class that makes creating widgets much easier. In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through a real-world example.
Customize your 404 page from the WordPress admin
How to easily customize, edit, and update your site’s 404 pages in WordPress by widgetizing the 404 template in your theme.
Using shortcodes to show members-only content
Simple code snippets for turning your WordPress-powered blog into a powerful members-only site. Learn how to show content to whoever you want.
Custom taxonomies in WordPress 2.8
Why custom taxonomies in WordPress 2.8 are the coolest thing since sliced bread and how you can easily create your own.
Creating a page template that lists all of your WordPress taxonomies
Learn how to loop through each of the taxonomies on your blog and display them in the tag cloud format.
Tag descriptions in WordPress 2.8
WordPress 2.8 will introduce the new tag_description() function. In this tutorial, I’ll show you a few techniques on how to use it.