WordPress Tips

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Replace Default Header Image Twenty Ten Theme

You can find information on how to make a child theme, but not how to replace the default header image with your own. WP TIPS shows you how to do this.

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Choose a reliable host for your WordPress install

Everyone knows that a reliable host is important for your website or blog. WordPress itself recommends a few hosting providers on their website; we always recommend Bluehost, HostGator and WPWebHost. Today shows again why a reliable hosting company is so important!

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7 Essential Plugins that every WordPress Install should have

Probably you are already aware that we are not great fans of plugins in general. With this we mean that we don’t like to use plugins for each and every added functionality, especially since many of those plugins can be hard-coded in the functions.php template.

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Using WordPress on a PHP driven website

Recently eantics digital marketing separated their blog from their main website. Correct us if we’re wrong, but it is our understanding that before both the website and the blog were WordPress driven. Anyways, their website is coded in PHP and they have their blog hanging under a subdomain, hosted on WordPress (what else?).

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bloginfo(‘siteurl’) becomes bloginfo(‘url’) in WP 3.0

A very short WordPress tip that we found the other day. In the upcoming version of WordPress (3.0) bloginfo(‘siteurl’) has been deprecated and replaced with bloginfo(‘url’). So if you are a theme/plugin developer, you might take note of this and start changing! Thanks for the tip Nathan Rice! You can follow him on Twitter: @nathanrice

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Flexible way of grabbing first image from a Post

Many WordPress themes nowadays show an image of a Post (a thumbnail) on the home page which can make the website more appealing to the visitor. You can of course install one of the many plugins that accomplish this, or you could do something with custom fields, but of both we are not big fans.

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Pages with content and PHP code

When building websites we want to keep it as simple as possible for the client. This means that we want to give the client as much flexibility as possible while at the same time we have to try not to bother the client with any visible PHP code within the WordPress website.

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Add breadcrumb navigation without a plugin

For one of the websites we have in development we needed to add a breadcrumb navigation. Now of course there are plenty of plugins around, a search on WordPress results in 2 pages of them.

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