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On the homepage of a WordPress site I was working on, I wanted to display the most recent post completely (not just the excerpt) while the next 9 showing the excerpt only. I also wanted to include a post image and other additional meta data for better usability and also to make the latest article [...]

Soon after launching of my latest redesign I’ve been spending a great deal of time on the use of typography throughout the site. I’ve been teaching myself different font embedding technologies in order to use a specific font of my choice, rather then the standard web safe fonts you see everyday all over the web. [...]

I tend to use post excerpts (the_excerpt) on the home page and archive views of a blog rather than full posts (the_content). Using the excerpt controls the size of each post and provides a clean interface for readers to scan content. However, I think it’s better to have a permalink with custom anchor text trailing [...]

Here is a simple solution for those of you looking to customize your WordPress theme, to use the WordPress query_posts() function to retrieve your blog posts rather than the standard loop. I created a custom Page Template named “Blog” using query_posts() and assigned this template to be used on a designated Blog page within my [...]

WordPress is one of the most popular Content Management Systems (CMS) on the web. It’s a great application supported by a great community. I use WordPress for many of my own websites, I also recommend it to others looking to start a website that need to manage their content with little programming knowledge. I always [...]

Recently I was hired to install a vBulletin Message board on an established WordPress blog. While I was in the vBulletin support forums for an issue I was having, I came across a very useful WP plugin that I would highly recommend for those who wish to run these two systems together. The WordPress/vBulletin Bridge [...]