Archive for the ‘WordPress’ Category

How To Add WordPress Comment Pagination Without a Plugin

In this tutorial, I will show you how to add and style Paged Comments to your WordPress Blog without a plugin. For a WordPress blog, comment pagination is used to display a limited number of comments per page. Instead of using the default « Older Comments or Newer Comments » links, paginating comments display a full list of comment pages using numeric indexes. Continue Reading »

How To Change WordPress Comments From Linear to Threaded (Nested) Format

In this tutorial, I will show you how to transform comments in your WordPress blog from a Linear format into a threaded (or Nested) format without the need of a plugin. There are probably plugins that enhances commenting, but I don´t think you need any, since threaded comments feature in WordPress is not new and is available since version 2.7. Continue Reading »

How To Add a Dropdown Navigation Menu To WordPress Without a Plugin

In this tutorial, I will show you how to dynamically add a Multi-Level(up to 3-level deep) Dropdown Navigation Menu to your WordPress blog without the need of a plugin. This tutorial is NOT about creating custom Menu widgets but rather a native theme support for Page or Custom multi-level navigation menu. The navigation menu can range from a single top level and up to 3 level deep. Continue Reading »

Introducing a New WordPress ‘Diary’ Theme For This Blog

For this blog, I decided to give my visitors yet another theme to choose from: the Dairy theme. This theme is coded with the latest HTML5 and CSS3 standards, and thus it is best viewed with the latest browser versions.

Same as the other 3 themes available for this blog, the Dairy theme has been extensively customized, modified, enhanced with new features and functionality, and fixed to fit this blog. Continue Reading »

How To Put Your WordPress Website in Maintenance Mode Without a Plugin

In this tutorial, I will show you how to easily redirect your visitors to a temporary maintenance page without the need of a plugin. The custom maintenance page lets your visitors know that your WordPress Website (or blog) is down for maintenance. Logged-in administrators will still have full access to the Website while visitors see a customized maintenance message. Continue Reading »

17 Point Checklist to Successfully Switch Your WordPress Theme

One of the great things about WordPress is the ability to customize your Website by using Themes. WordPress themes provide much more control over the look and presentation of the content on your Website. A WordPress Theme is a collection of files to produce a graphical interface with an underlying unifying design for a Website. Continue Reading »

How To Add a Dynamic HTML Sitemap in WordPress Without a Plugin

WordPress HTML sitemap.In this tutorial, I will show you how to dynamically display an HTML sitemap for your WordPress blog without the need of a plugin. Dynamically means that the sitemap updates automatically with every new post and other blog changes. Yes, there are plugins that add an HTML sitemap to your blog. But I encourage you to read my previous post about unnecessarily adding plugins to your theme. Continue Reading »

How To Turn Your WordPress Blog From NoFollow to DoFollow Without a Plugin

DoFollow In this tutorial, I will show you how to easily turn your WordPress blog from the default NoFollow to a DoFollow blog without the need of a plugin. Why not turn your blog into a DoFollow blog and get more visitors, more traffic and eventualy more recognition in the Online community. Probably you already have seen some blogs displaying the DoFollow image and you wonder how it is done and what it really means. Continue Reading »

How To Create WordPress Theme Switcher for Your Visitors and Theme Viewer for Your Customers

Have you ever wondered if your visitors are fed up with your WordPress theme? The same theme over and over again? I know I am.
How about giving your visitors the option to change your theme? Do you want to know how to allow your users to view different themes on your WordPress Website?

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a multiple Theme Switcher for your users and also how to create a Theme Viewer to showcase your unpublished themes to your customers. Continue Reading »

3 Ways You Can Use Genesis to Build Your Own Web Design Business

Genesis Framework. Making a living working online is a more and more common daydream in today´s world, and with good reason the number of potential Internet jobs is increasing every day, with no end in sight. In a very real sense, the only limit to the number of jobs the Internet can provide is how imaginative and entrepreneurial people are capable of. Continue Reading »