Adding Gravatars to Posts

With the launch of the Blueprint site, and all the hubbub over the release of Prologue, there are now a couple of good examples of using gravatars for more than just comments. The prologue function is a little weighty to be copied to other themes, since it's built ...

Adding Search results to Wordpress 404 pages

Okay, so all this redirection business, and the 404 logs it generates, made me really get annoyed with seeing the blank 404 page I have. It's just the basic page that comes with Sandbox. Looking at the page was especially frustrating, since I knew that the URL ...

Upgrading

wordpress 2.2 is out. Easy upgrading is still a ways off. unless you're me, and you've moved to SVN. then it's just svn switch http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/branches/2.2/ :D

the latest undocumented features include atom API support. all that coding in app.php does little good if you don't reference ...

for the obsessive theme switchers

I'm prepetually unsatisfied by themes. it's not the theme authors' fault, i'm just restless. alex king pointed to more advice: From Install to Pimped Out that sounds like the advice i found when i started using wordpress. but for anyone who does, or might, change ...

Defective Themes: Duplicate Content

Talking to Rob about his nifty architecture blog search engine, I realized just how important things like the Duplicate Content Cure Plugin are. Not just for fear of being kicked out of google, but because it makes your search results real. By default, your ...