An easy way to widget-enable WP themes!

Wordpress Widgets are an amazing way to customise your blog besides wordpress plugins. Click here for more information on how to widgetise your wordpress theme in 3 simple steps :)

How to use WP as a membership Directory

For the advanced, here is a great guide on how to use WP CMS for a membership directory.

48 Unique ways to use Wordpress

This is a great article: A must read for any serious web devloper/SEO that relies on Wordpress for as many sites as poss… like me!

Highlight authors comments

Matt cuts walks us through how to change the color of the blog authors comments, based on the user ID instead of the authors email address. Cool stuff, I’ll be adding it to my personal blog in the morning.

Making Niche Sites with Wordpress - Free E Book

I’ve just started reading Caroline’s free “make niche sites with Wordpress” e book and I have to say, I’m impressed. It’s free so go and check it out!

How To Validate Your Wordpress Code

Whether you are thinking of creating your own theme or using a free theme, it’s worth validating the code. Messy code creates problems for Search engines crawing your site/blog, which may cause problems with indexing. This simple 2 step process will find any problems:

Check the XHTML:

Enter each of the pages of the theme into the XHTML validator page

Check the CSS:

1) In your browser, click on “view > source”

2) Find the address of the style sheet which looks something like this:

yourblog.com/wp-content/themes/Theme-Name/style.css”

3) Enter that into the CSS Validator page