About WPTIPS

WPTIPS is an initiative of Piet Bos. Piet has been developing websites since 2005 and working with WordPress since 2006. Piet was born and raised in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, has been living in Beijing, China since 1998 with a brief 2 year intermezzo in Valencia, Spain (2008-2010). You can find out more information about Piet Bos via the following Social Media Profiles.

Make mobile “app” of WordPress website

Posted on January 4, 2012 by WPTIPS in Plugins - 98 views

What I like is that you can style the mobile app like the desktop version of your website, something not possible with many other plugins. Continue reading →

WordPress 3.3 Dashboard Tweaks plugin

Posted on November 30, 2011 by WPTIPS in Plugins - 599 views

Yesterday I checked if my admin tweaks would work on WordPress 3.3. Some things didn’t, so I decided to make a new plugin: Dashboard Tweaks. Continue reading →

Use Template Part to add social media sharing buttons to your site

Posted on October 30, 2011 by WPTIPS in Templates - 315 views

Social media sharing buttons, why use a plugin if you can do it with a template part instead? Continue reading →

Google Plus to WordPress

Posted on October 13, 2011 by WPTIPS in News - 195 views

Great tip about how to post from Google+ directly into your WordPress install. Continue reading →

Extending the WordPress Walker Class

Posted on July 28, 2011 by WPTIPS in Functions - 838 views

Many of us don’t realise that when calling wp_list_pages, the actual output is generated by the WordPress Walker Class. Continue reading →

Chessboard, one of the Twenty Eleven default header images

Replace/Remove Default Header Image Twenty Eleven Theme

Posted on July 14, 2011 by WPTIPS in Functions - 19,235 views

Last year WPTIPS showed you how to replace the header image of Twenty Ten, this year we show you the same for the Twenty Eleven WordPress theme and throw in a different approach as a bonus! Continue reading →

Multisite Dashboard Feed Widget screenshot

Multisite Dashboard Feed Widget plugin

Posted on May 11, 2011 by WPTIPS in Plugins - 859 views

This plugin shows the latest Posts from the main site of a multisite install in the top of the Dashboard of all sites in the network. Continue reading →

Make Your Own Latest News Dashboard Widget

Posted on May 2, 2011 by WPTIPS in Functions - 1,565 views

After upgrading one of our multisite installs to WP 3.1.2 we noticed that the dashboard feed no longer shows the most recent post from the main site. Time to make our own! Continue reading →

Playing with Post Formats of WordPress 3.1

Posted on January 9, 2011 by WPTIPS in Functions - 2,417 views

Real world examples of what can be done with the new WordPress 3.1 Post Formats Continue reading →

WordPress Status Dashboard

Posted on December 14, 2010 by WPTIPS in Plugins - 446 views

Although the name suggests that it has something to do with the Dashboard of a WordPress install, it has not.
What is the purpose of the WordPress Status Dashboard application then? Continue reading →

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