If you run a website or blog professionally, it is always good business practice to update your older posts to keep them as valid and current as possible.   This helps retain (or even grow) their search engine positions, and helps keep your blog from having dead links or outdated content.  One of the things I [...]

There are a growing number of premium themes on the market these days for WordPress users, many of which are extremely advanced, yet I’ve found that many designers fail to add some of the most basic things all themes should have.  One of the things many designers forget to do is code ”edit” buttons on their posts, pages, and comments.   [...]

There has been some debate by bloggers over the past few years as to the value of displaying your archives, with some bloggers going as far as to not even display their categories!    The general idea is that the use of recent posts, popular posts, and a built-in search feature will allow your readers to [...]

Throughout our WordPress code series, we’ve been providing a number of code options for designers who want to use actual code rather than using the widget system built into WordPress. In this post, we’ll be providing the code for creating both recent comments and top comments to the sidebar of your WordPress blog.

In the past we’ve discussed how to add recent posts to your WordPress blog manually using code, but for blogs that are regularly updating older posts (there are a surprising number of these), here is some code that you can instead use to only show the most recently updated posts in WordPress! Here is the [...]