With the update of WordPress to version 3.4 came some important feature improvements that changed the way certain key components work. This includes how the header image and background functionality is implemented. This in turn means the old methods of making changes to these elements suddenly don’t work any more. The Issue This change has …

UPDATE: I’ve added a 4th step to the list to remove automatic inline styles from being inserted when embedding videos. If you’re using a responsive theme on your WordPress site (or you’ve built a responsive theme) and you’ve added YouTube, Vimeo or other videos using oEmbed you will undoubtedly have noticed those videos do not …

One of my primary goals when building WordPress themes for my clients is to make it as easy as possible for them to post and manage content. And though video embedding has become much simpler over the years, controlling the video content can still be a bit of a pain, especially if you can’t remember …

The <time> tag is a little used but very effective little HTML element that allows you to embed additional information to dates and times in your content. The idea is that in addition to the actual text that shows the visitor the time, you can provide the browser, search engines and other computers with actual …

I ran a cross a rather interesting situation this week while working on the Vi Er Der Du Er site. The site uses the WP Geo plugin extensively on both pages, and posts, and custom post types but I needed to deactivate it for one particular page because I was embedding a different custom Google …

So you have a WordPress site with a decent amount of traffic. That’s probably causing some serious pain for your server. With a lot of traffic comes a heavy server load. And most of that load is probably due to image files uploaded to your site. The solution to this is to put your images and other …

UPDATE June 4, 2012: Microsoft has released a new solution for PHP hosting in a Linux environment on Azure. As a result this entire tutorial is now defunct as there is a better and much easier solution available. Check it out right here. UPDATE November 2, 2011: The WordPress on Azure scaffolder has been updated …

Child Themes are by far the easiest way of creating a new look and introduce new functionality to a WordPress powered site. By creating a WordPress child theme you get all the benefits of the parent theme while gaining the ability to create custom styles, custom layouts and custom functions just for you. In May 2011 I …

With the release of WordPress 3.1 came a new version of the stock TwentyTen theme with some subtle changes, most importantly the move of all the loop elements in the templates (the code that runs through the database and gathers info like title, date, author, categories, content, images etc) into their own files. In the …

With the release of Internet Explorer 9 came a new and very cool feature that can greatly enhance the user experience for frequent visitors and also increase exposure for sites that activate it. The feature is called Pinned Sites and lets you turn any website or even web page into a customized pinned item on …