Archive for the ‘Tips’ Category

Displaying Code in Content

Posted January 7th, 2009 by Lyndi | 2 Comments

Many blogs (including this one) display code snippets as part of their content. This is done to show the relevant code in tutorials etc.
This is however something that could be very problematic in a WordPress blog. First of all most browsers will not simply display the code, it will attempt to run it. This does [...]

Displaying your Content Correctly in the Feed

Posted January 5th, 2009 by Lyndi | 19 Comments

Today I am going to give you a tip that might sound extremely strange. My tip is that you subscribe to your blog’s own feed. Now why on earth would you want to do this? This will ensure that every time you add content you will get to see it in a reader in the [...]

Styling the More Link

Posted January 2nd, 2009 by Lyndi | 18 Comments

When it comes to styling our blogs it is often those little things like the ‘more links’ that are often overlooked.
By default these links do not have a top or bottom margin to match the rest of our pages. When you code a ‘more-link’ WordPress simply adds a break (br) to the end of the [...]

The Blogroll Re-Visited

Posted December 29th, 2008 by Lyndi | 37 Comments

Earlier this year I showed you how I spruced up the blogroll on this site by showing graphics for each site on the blogroll.
For me the blogroll is pretty important. It is here that I get to say ‘thank you’ to all the friends who have proven themselves to be true friends. I do not [...]

Full vs Excerpt

Posted December 23rd, 2008 by Lyndi | 17 Comments

This post has been prompted by the fact that numerous people have reached this blog by searching for ‘the_content’ and/or ‘the_excerpt’. Both of these are of course WordPress functions that one uses to show either the full content or simply an excerpt of an article on a page.