WordPress Widgets vs Plugins, what’s the difference?

What is the difference between plugins and widgets? Plugins are functions that do something to your website. They could serve a back-end purpose and never be visible to you or the public. In the other hand, a widget usually is the representation of a plugin in the form of an object that can be placed [...]

Open for Comments

After a few months of being online, I have finally opened up the ability to leave comments on this site. You don’t even have to register, simply go to an article and at the bottom you’ll see the form to leave a comment. You must fill out your name and an e-mail address though, as [...]

WordPress Plugins for Writers.

WP-Footnotes Configuration Screen

If you happen to be a writer of any kind, and run your own blog you want to check out these plugins. Even if you’re a casual blogger –that makes you a writer of some kind right? You should find these useful. All of these are very simple to install, there are other alternatives and [...]

Fixing nextgen gallery after upgrade 1.4.1

Nextgen Gallery is awesome, it displays images in your WordPress installation in a way that is very customizable and using the plugin itself is a breeze. Recently it got updated to version 1.3.4 3.1.5 1.4.1. If you’re using a custom template, this upgrade most likely broke your installation. The reason seems to be that the [...]

Columns on WordPress posts

Last night, as I was writing one of the posts for my blogging tutorial series, I wanted a way to get columns working in a post. Newspaper style, or magazine style some may call it. I thought it would be really cool if I could wrap content around short tags that would automatically make columns. [...]

Better Glossary?

Doh. I think I might have over-complicated the idea of a Glossary on WP. Why not create a page named Glossary, then create sub-pages for each term or definition? Then I can still let SEO smart links do the autolinking throughout the site. I think this should work and should be easier than my previous [...]

How I do a semi-automatic glossary on WordPress

Using a plugin and a simple process, you can easily add a Glossary to WordPress. You’d think that there would be a plugin out there by now to do this. As a matter of fact, there seem to be a few, but none of them really do the job right AFAIAC. If I could and [...]