Have you ever wanted to change some text that reads “Continue reading” or “Post written by” in your WordPress theme to something a little different? That’s pretty easy to do if you just open up the appropriate PHP file and edit it. But what happens when the theme is updated with some cool, new feature or for the next version of WordPress? Well, you have to change that text all over again.

We’ve learned how to add an author bio to single posts and revamp our comments with gravatars. Now, it’s time to take this one step farther. We’re going to create a template page for all of our authors. This can be useful if you have multiple authors on your site … Continue reading →

We’ve learned how to spruce up our comments sections a bit with the first part of this series. Now, we’ll cover an about the author section for single posts. I think this will mostly be useful for blogs and sites with multiple authors because you might want to tell more about who is writing the post.

I’ve been playing around quite a bit with the gravatar feature for WordPress since it now comes built in. I’ve learned a few things, so I figured I’d share them with you. From this point forward, I will assume you know what a gravatar is.

I’m about to go all WordPress Geek 2.5 on y’all now. So, if you don’t want to look at PHP code or have no clue what a widget is, then you might want to take a break from this post.

Are you tired of all the “bells and whistles” of most WordPress contact forms? Are you exhausted from modifying CSS for hours just to get a contact plugin to display with your theme? Try out the Simpler Contact Form for WordPress. This solution was based off my original Simple WordPress … Continue reading →

YouTube has become a bit of a phenomenon on the Internet, and everyone’s rushing to embed videos into their blogs. This is actually a fairly neat thing, especially if you blog a lot about videos or have videos that will emphasize the importance of your posts.

This part of the tutorial will cover making things look a little prettier. It is a more advanced PHP tutorial than any of the previous tutorials in the overall custom fields series. Basically, we will do a lot of work, but it won’t look like we’ve accomplished much. We still … Continue reading →

Using custom fields to customize your book, movie, music or other types of reviews.

This is an updated version of this article. If you're looking for the older version, see page 2. Do you write long series of posts? Do you have a bunch of articles that definitely need to be linked together? This WordPress custom fields technique will allow you to do that … Continue reading →