How to Create Replacement Page Titles in WordPress

I’ve been too busy to spot this getting published at the time, but I’ve just noticed that I had my screencast tutorial published a couple of weeks ago at styl.eti.me, showing how to replace your Page titles in WordPress with custom values, different to those shown in your site’s navigation. Thanks to Roger for hosting it!

Go check it out, and let me know what you think of it!

WordPress Pods: Properly formatted output from ‘desc’ fields

A few months ago, I discovered the Pods plugin for WordPress, and it’s completely changed the way I go about building many projects. It essentially adds CMS functionality to WordPress, allowing you to create your own input modules and display them however you want. The Pods website homepage has a video that explains the plugin [...]

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Multiple Search Results Pages within One WordPress Site

On a client site I’m currently developing in WordPress, I’m having to add the client’s existing articles to the new site, as well as his old blog. I wanted them to both exist as Posts, but to be separated within the site. Most of that was straightforward – by assigning articles and blog posts to [...]

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Quick WordPress Tip: How to execute AND display PHP in posts and pages

Say you’ve got some PHP code that you need to run from within one of your Pages. For example, in my Portfolio page, I use the FlickrRSS plugin to pull in photos from my Flickr feed. While the easiest way to implement that would be to place the required PHP snippet in a template file, [...]

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Quick WordPress Tip: Style Posts According to Date

Ever wanted to give a post element a different look and feel (or even include/exclude content) based on a post’s publication date? I got asked about this earlier today, and I figured it would be a handy tip to share.
I don’t claim to be a PHP coder, so while it does work, it could be [...]

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