How To Change The Default Avatar In Your WordPress Blog

by Jerome

July 27 th

Here is a tip for today- I will show you how to add your own custom avatar into your WordPress blog. Why would you do that? Maybe because you want to make your blogs look more professional or simply because your are tired to see “Mystery Man” everywhere. Just follow these quick steps below: Step [...]

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Automatic Thumbnail Image Resizing – The Easy Way

by Jerome

July 14 th

TimThumb is a free open source script that lets you automatically create thumbnails on the fly to a specific size. This script is commonly used by web developers making magazine style WordPress themes. Today I’m going to show you how to implement it into your theme in 5 easy steps. Step 1 Download the TimThumb  [...]

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Google Code To Fight Spam On Your WordPress Or BuddyPress Install

by Jerome

July 7 th

Spam has always been a problem for bloggers. Yesterday I found a new script by Google to help you fight spammers. The script is called Stop Spam Referer PHP Script.  It’s very light weight and extremely easy to install (it took me 2 minutes to install). Has anyone have been using this script? Are you [...]

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How To Feature Your Twitter And Facebook Account

by Jerome

June 3 rd

If you want to add a section for your Facebook or Twitter account into your contact info profile into the backend of your WordPress blog, follow the steps below:

Simply drop this code below in your function.php file to feature your Twitter and Facebook URL account.

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Display ‘Time Ago’ Into Your Post Date

by Jerome

May 31 st

If you feel the need to jazz up your Blog post date why not try adding the “Time Ago” if your post is published within 24 hours. Thanks go to Lam Nguyen for this quick solution.

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How To Enable The Multiblog Function In WordPress 3.0

by Jerome

May 19 th

WordPress 3.0 is coming out soon and is introducing some great new features. One of them is to allow you to run a network of blogs within one single install. To turn on this new function simply add this line of code below in your wp-config.php file under your wordpress installation.

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How To Display Your Oldest Post First

by Jerome

May 2 nd

If one of your development project is the need to list your oldest blog post first, simply add this code below:
In your template files: index, single, whichever one you want to apply this to.
Find this line

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Display Author Picture Without A Plugin

by Jerome

April 25 th

There are a few plugins out there that help you to add the author photo within a post. The one I like to use for large blogs for easy management is the User Photo plugin. For blogs with just a few nominated authors there is no point to use a plugin- just simply follow this [...]

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