How-To: Display Most Recent Twitter Entry on Your WordPress Blog

Proud of your tweets?   Maybe you run a business blog and would like to integrate your Twitter feed?   For WordPress users, adding your most recent tweet to your WordPress blog is actually very easy.   Simply add a little code snippet in your blog’s sidebar where you want to display your most recent tweet, then add [...]

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How-To: Prevent Google from Indexing Your Images

For most bloggers, traffic and monetization is the driving force behind our blogs and motivation to blog.  Therefore, why would someone who operates any image-heavy blog who would want to prevent a lot of potential traffic from Google’s image search? There are actually a number of reasons bloggers would want to keep their pictures from being [...]

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Code: Adding Edit Buttons to WordPress

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.   [...]

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Code: Display Categories and Archives in WordPress

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 [...]

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Code: Add Recent Comments and Top Comments to WordPress

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.

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Code: Displaying Updated Posts in WordPress

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 [...]

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