WordPress Tutorials

Creating a Shared Content Box Across All of Your WordPress Blogs

Saturday, February 4th, 2012

More than five years ago, I was bit by the Autoblog bug. I don’t build them anymore, but I still build WordPress blogs in large numbers. One of my pet peeves when I was working with 100+ different blogs was that if I wanted to interlink them, or have the exact same links on the [...]

Integrate Custom Google Search Engine to Your WordPress Site

Monday, January 16th, 2012

Google Custom Search is a great way to save on some bandwidth and see how your pages look on Google. Those who don’t want to use WordPress default search can integrate Google Custom Search to their website, also, Google custom search has the option to monetize their website’s with Google Adsense. Thus, best of both [...]

Change WordPress Login Logo Image Quickly

Tuesday, December 27th, 2011

Tired of seeing that old WordPress logo everytime you want to login? No problem, that login logo can be changed to your own Company/Blog logo and no plugins are required to do the task. Plugins are great but not really necessary for simple tasks like this. Those site’s that require a login every time, or [...]

Custom user taxonomies in WordPress

Thursday, October 20th, 2011

How to create, manage, and use a custom taxonomy for users (not posts) in WordPress.

How to create custom post meta boxes

Thursday, October 6th, 2011

My first post on Smashing WordPress is up: How to create custom post meta boxes.

Creating basic theme templates

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

Part #3 in the “I wanna be a theme designer” series, which teaches you how to create basic WordPress theme templates.

I wanna be a theme designer: Theme setup

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

Part two in the theme creation tutorial series, a how-to on setting up and creating your first WordPress theme.

I wanna be a theme designer: Intro

Thursday, September 15th, 2011

An introduction to a tutorial series on creating WordPress themes from start to finish.

Adding a login form to a page

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

How to create a login form on a WordPress page using a custom shortcode.

Conditional checks for custom post types

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011

How to use WordPress’ built-in functions to run conditional checks for custom post types.

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