In a recent post, we show you how to clean up and enhance the functionality of WordPress with a custom functions.php template. In that post, we explain how using a custom functions.php template can speed up development while optimizing many…

Just to let you know about the new mobile version at m.digwp.com. This makes it much easier to visit on many mobile devices. Shouts to mobify.me for making it happen. Direct Link to Article — Permalink on DiWLike the article?…

A useful tool to have in in your WordPress toolbelt is the ability to quickly and easily search for, find, and replace specific strings of text directly from the MySQL database. We can do this by entering SQL queries…

When designing WordPress themes, I always add a common set of custom functions to the theme’s functions.php file. This speeds up development time because I don’t have to hunt for and individually copy the same slew of functions for every…

Most blogs display their content in single columns, but it’s also possible to display content in multiple columns. Multiple-column layouts are perfect for newspaper and magazine-style themes. Here are six ways of getting the job done. Using CSS3 and…

Getting your plugins listed in the official WordPress Plugin Directory is considered a chore by many, but it’s nothing that should stop you from sharing your plugin with the community at large. Up until now, I haven’t really bothered with…

Looking for a good book on WordPress security? If so, we’ve got great news! John Hoff’s new security e-book WordPress Defender provides 30 practical ways to secure your website from the evil forces of spam, bad bots, and malicious hackers.…

In WordPress, there are three ways to respond to a post: you can leave a comment, leave a trackback, or just link to the post to create a pingback. When displaying all of the responses to your posts, it’s a…

I usually reserve most of my blacklisting content for Perishable Press, but after posting about using WordPress’ built-in tools to stop comment spam, several DiW readers have asked about a good custom blacklist that may be used for the “Comment…

Working on a new theme for the next Digging into WordPress book update, I found myself really getting into the whole “widgetizing” thing. Widgets enable non-technical users to customize your theme according to their specific layout needs, and with so…

If you have posts that include the nofollow attribute on links, you may at some point decide to remove them. By default, WordPress doesn’t insert nofollow attributes in post content, but there are a variety of plugins that will insert…

Last night while twittering, I enjoyed the launch of two incredible new WordPress sites. First announced was WPShift, specializing in custom WordPress themes: Our WordPress themes offer you infinite customisation: just drag and drop. Beautiful sites are now for everyone.…

For this DiW Poll, we ask the question: Do you use the WordPress Media Library, and if so, how much? On its own, the WordPress Media Library provides users with a wide variety of great tools for managing media content.…

Back in October, we asked the WordPress community How Many Plugins do You Use?. Several months later, over 1300 people have voted, and here are the results: I find these results to be very interesting. Looking at the data, we…

The default output for WordPress’ post_class template tag includes class names for just about every type of page view imaginable: page-parent search-results logged-in author paged Plus just about everything else except for category ID information. It gives some good category-specific…

Our personal collection of useful ways to customize and format the WordPress more tag… Everyone who has been using WordPress for any length of time should be familiar with the <!--more--> tag. When you are writing a post, inserting the…