Category Archives: Wordpress

Adding your latest tweets to your WordPress blog

By jmz | Published: April 2, 2012

A very simple way of keeping the content on your website fresh is to grab your latest tweets from Twitter and display them on your WordPress site. At first it might seem like it could be quite a lot of work to do this. Luckily WordPress has a fantastic community of plugin developers and an [...]

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Adding widgets to your WordPress theme

By jmz | Published: March 29, 2012

In WordPress, widgets allow you to add content to special areas of your theme without having to modify any code. If your theme is ‘widgetized’ you can use the built in drag and drop functionality built into WordPress to add new content and move content around on your site. Widgets make it really easy to [...]

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Child themes in WordPress

By jmz | Published: March 28, 2012

In WordPress a child theme is simply a theme that inherits style and functionality from it’s parent theme. All you really need to create a child theme is a style.css file in the themes directory of your WordPress installation. This quick article will show you situations in which child themes might be useful and how [...]

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Customizing the WordPress Admin Panel

By jmz | Published: March 12, 2010

If you’re creating a website for a client you will normally find they don’t want to learn how to use everything in the WordPress admin panel. They probably hired you so that they didn’t have to learn loads of new stuff and I’m sure what they wanted was a simple admin panel that made updating [...]

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WordPress Options Panels

By jmz | Published: March 5, 2010

If you’re into creating WordPress themes for yourself, a client or even to sell the chances are you have thought about how you could improve your themes if they had an options page in the WordPress admin panel. This may seem a bit daunting to start with but it really doesn’t have to be, I’ve [...]

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