Posted on 28 November, 2008 By Kim Woodbridge (15) Comments

How to Exclude a Category From the Sidebar List in WordPress

I need to exclude a category from the WordPress sidebar. Here’s how I did it.

Posted on 23 November, 2008 By Kim Woodbridge (13) Comments

(Anti) Social-Lists 11/23/08

Getting (Anti) Social with WordPress 2.7, an article from Copyblogger, Gimp tutorials, the WordPress visual text editor and free eBooks.

Posted on 22 October, 2008 By Kim Woodbridge (9) Comments

Wordpress - Enhance Search Results with the Search Excerpt Plugin

The WordPress Search Excerpt plugin pulls an excerpt containing the keywords searched on the search results page rather than the first two sentences of the post. I recommend using it along with Search Reloaded.

Posted on 16 October, 2008 By Kim Woodbridge (15) Comments

WordPress - How To Create a Static Front Page

Today I provided instructions on how to simply create a static front page in WordPress and have your blog be a separate section of the website.

Posted on 13 October, 2008 By Kim Woodbridge (29) Comments

How to Customize Gravatars in WordPress

This article discusses the conditions that can be used with the gravatar code to change the rating, size and default image. A 1px colored border can also be placed around the avatars.

Posted on 9 October, 2008 By Kim Woodbridge (29) Comments

How to Upgrade Wordpress Manually

How to upgrade WordPress manually using the Kim Woodbridge method that has been tested repeatedly. Included are the instructions and how important it is to backup your files and your database first.

Posted on 2 October, 2008 By Kim Woodbridge (4) Comments

WordPress - Collapsible Archives with the Clean Archives Reloaded Plugin

How to install and use the WordPress plugin Clean Archives Reloaded to create a collapsible list for all your archived posts. This list is installed on a unique page or post. The archives can then be linked to from the sidebar or navigation area.

Posted on 1 October, 2008 By Kim Woodbridge (13) Comments

WordPress - How to List Recent Posts from One Category

In this article I explain how to show a list of recent WordPress posts from a single category. I provide code examples and also explain situations where you would need to use the Exec-PHP plugin to accomplish this.

Posted on 25 September, 2008 By Kim Woodbridge (6) Comments

WordPress - Enhance Your Archives by Using Optional Excerpts

In this article Kim attempts to explain the use of WordPress Optional Excerpts. She mostly succeeds but for some reason uses way too many parentheses.

Posted on 24 September, 2008 By Kim Woodbridge (3) Comments

WordPress - How To Create a Delicious Bookmarks Page

Two weeks ago I wrote an article on how to exclude pages from appearing in your header or sidebar navigation bar. So, now that you’ve removed that page what do you do with it?
Vered, from MomGrind, wanted to remove her Legal page from the sidebar. She then added a link to the page [...]

Posted on 18 September, 2008 By Kim Woodbridge (13) Comments

WordPress - How to Find the Best Free Themes

On Monday I asked the readers what they would like me to write about. Unfortunately, I didn’t get much of a response. Either I have no readers, my readers want me to stop writing, or they, like Vered, are happy with the topics I have selected. Ellen asked me a question about [...]

Posted on 11 September, 2008 By Kim Woodbridge (35) Comments

How to Exclude Pages from the WordPress Navigation Bar

Have you ever wanted to create pages in WordPress but don’t want them listed in the header or footer navigation areas? You still want the pages to be accessible, perhaps listed in the sidebar, so you don’t want to make them private. You can do this by excluding pages and I’ll show you how [...]

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