In starting up WordPress CMS websites I’ve found many people have difficulty with existing WordPress themes and plugins just not delivering exactly what they envision their website looking like. Oftentimes a theme can be tweaked a little here and there to …

So you wanna supplement your site with syndicated content, but don’t have the time to give each syndicated post unique tags? This was the situation for a client of mine already using the FeedWordPress plugin.

Diving right in… First, you’ll need to install and activate the Calais Archive Tagger plugin. (BTW, you will also need to get an …

It can be a real pain to delete several (not to mention thousands) of posts using the built-in Manage/Posts section of the wp-admin panel. While there are a few bulk post management plugins out there, I wasn’t able to find one that worked as I needed it to.

Read on to find out how I made a simple tweak to …

There are well known custom queries pre-Wp-2.5 which serve this purpose –namely, to display the child pages of the current page. And there have been many great navigational plugins for breadcrumbs and folding pages/categories/archives.

That said, after discovering that many of the tried and true plugins and custom queries for pre-WP-2.5 just didn’t work anymore (there were many changes to …

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When Michie alerted me to her problem with uploading images within the newly upgraded WP 2.5 admin panel, I went investigating.

After taking a look at the first, likeliest culprits (checking to be sure the ‘uploads’ folder existed and had the correct permissions) showed no signs of solution, I turned to the WordPress support forums for possible solutions, and …

Though restoring from backup is rarely necessary, it really sucks to be without a solid backup of your WordPress database when/if your database ever becomes corrupted. Automate the backing up of your data by using a WordPress plugin to manage your WordPress database.

So you finally got around to upgrading your WordPress-driven site. Congrats. For the most part it *is* as simple as uploading the new WordPress files and running ../your-domain.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php (if necessary). But what do you do when it’s just not that simple?

Unlike the author of this handy plugin I just discovered, I *have* had this annoying problem of getting locked out of WordPress wp-admin, several times. Even if you have database admin access, fixing this can be really frustrating and the problem isn’t always the same.

I had to take a minute to post when I came across this awesome plugin …

How to integrate Wordpress and aMember using the View Level 2 plugin to create a membership site with multiple membership levels.