Richard Shepherd

This is a tutorial for beginners, and we were all beginners once. To a beginner I remember custom fields looking quite pointless. I couldn’t quite grasp what they were for. Then, after building a few WordPress sites, I watched an excellent tutorial from Chris Coyier over at CSS Tricks and it really opened my eyes. [...]

Here’s the problem: You need to install WordPress on a Windows machine running IIS. I’d never normally do this, but sometimes you just don’t have a choice. There are plenty of links out there about how to do this, and the one I referred to most was How To Install WordPress on IIS 6.0. It [...]

So a little smiley face appears at the bottom of your blog, and it looks like this: Well ain’t that the cutest thing! But what is it? It’s the little .gif file that the WordPress Stats plug-in uses to monitor your page. It does so with some code like this… 1<img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/g.gif?host=www.yoursite.com&rand=###############&blog=#######&v=###&post=#&ref=#" alt="" />; …where [...]

Welcome to the final part of our tutorial on how to write your own WordPress Twitter Widget.

Welcome back! So you should have read through part one of the tutorial, where we left things off with the following line of code: $result = $t -> userTimeline($id=false, $count = ($options[’tweets’] * 4), $since = false); (If that looks strange, make sure you check out part 1 of this tutorial!) We now have our [...]

So you may have noticed in the sidebar over there on the right there’s a bunch of my recent Tweets. There are plenty of WordPress Twitter widgets, some better than others, but why not start and write your own? In this three part tutorial we’ll look at putting together the basic code, and then in [...]

So how do you put together your own WordPress widget? All you need is to know your way around PHP. If you can program your application in PHP the chances are it can be turned into a Widget. I’m first going to go through the structure of a Widget, and then we’re going to get [...]