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Sometimes when starting out a new Wordpress theme it’s nice to have something to start from that’s pretty bare, but has enough code so that you don’t feel like you’re reinventing the wheel.  I know there’s lots of blank themes out there, but I created my own [...]

Since WordPress doesn't support rss feeds for pages out of the box and I needed it, I decided to write this plugin to satisfy my need for now. Like the title says, this is quick and dirty, but it gets the job done. The next version of this plugin will be an RSS 2 [...]

If you use WordPress for a lot of sites, installing it with SVN is really the way to go. I've been switching over all of my blogs to use SVN since it makes updating sooooo much easier. In fact, updating WordPress used to be my biggest gripe about the program, and now I [...]

When I find a new blog that I really like or think has some good information I usually want to read the whole thing, and in the past, I've been frustrated by how annoying it is to do it online. I just want all posts in one document, free of ads, that I can [...]

After upgrading to Wordpress 2.5.x one of my favorite features has to be the automatic plugin updating. But today, one DEVTRENCH reader alerted me that a certain download wasn't working. Well, as it turns out, none of the downloads that use the wp-DownloadMonitor plugin were working. Seems like the new automatic upgrading system [...]

I saw on twitter that doshdosh has a wordpress.com account so I thought it would be fun to sign up for one just to see what it is like. I've always come at WP from the self hosted side of things and thought that the wordpress.com version would suck. I was pleasantly surprised that [...]

I've been kind of a dick lately ranting in the last few posts so decided I should be nicer. Here are some free smilies for your wordpress blogs (or what ever you want to use them for). These are fun to make! Learn how to make and install them here.
Download SquareSmilies in [...]