Archive for the ‘WordPress’ Category

You and your new WordPress theme

Posted November 28th, 2008 by Lyndi | 17 Comments

Finding a WordPress theme for your blog is not an easy task. Once you have found that ‘dream’ theme the problems are still not over. Changing themes entails a bit more than simply finding and activating the new theme.

Breadcrumb Navigation

Posted November 24th, 2008 by Lyndi | 16 Comments

For a while now I have been swapping plugins to try and get a breadcrumb navigation system going on this blog. There are many of these available but I could not find one that does what I wanted it to do. Finally I gave up and wrote my own little function to do the [...]

Theme option pages

Posted November 22nd, 2008 by Lyndi | 8 Comments

After quite a bit of research I have finally come up with my solution to the problem of including an options page in my WordPress themes or not. My solution might not be the optimal solution but it will most definitely work for me.

Woopra Statistics

Posted November 16th, 2008 by Lyndi | 27 Comments

I have never been interested in blog statistics and such like. I might visit Google Analytics once a week or so just to see what is happening but that would be that. Just recently I decided to install the Woopra WordPress plugin. It is still early days but I must say that so far, I [...]

The sidebar is so boring

Posted November 14th, 2008 by Lyndi | 43 Comments

Must we always follow like sheep? Can’t we add sidebars to our blogs that dare to be different? Is it just me, or are the sidebars on most blogs virtually just a copy of one another?