WordPress Blog How-To

Hosting My WordPress Blog - The Good and The Bad

Recently, I just moved the hosting company for my site. Here, I review the different groups of WordPress hosting options, analyze their pros and cons, and talk about some of my experiences.

Add Google AdSense to Your WordPress Blog

Easily add Google AdSense advertisements into your WordPress blog using text widgets.

Add Tags and Categories to Your WordPress Page

Currently, post-tags and post-category metaboxes only appear in the Edit Post screen. We consider how to add these metaboxes into the Edit Page screen, as well as properly save our results.

How to Style Your WordPress Front-Page

Different options for styling your WordPress front-page and which will give you the best results.

Add a WordPress Menubar to Your Blog

Four easy ways to add a menubar to your WordPress blog.

Who Says WordPress Galleries Should Only Contain Pictures

Considers how WordPress galleries can be expanded to include posts, pages, and other objects.

How to Add a New WordPress Image Size

To reduce page load speed, we want to render our blog pages with accurately sized images. WordPress only provides three standard sizes - large, medium, thumbnail. We consider how to add a new image size [...]

Optimize Your WordPress Plugins with Tags

Shows how you can enhance page speed by using tags to selectively run plugins only when needed. Page speed is important because it affects Google Page Rank and user experience.