I think it's time to learn how to create a WordPress Widget. WordPress (WP from now on) is the most used blogging platform, and I want to help everybody to code their favorite widgets.
From the official site (where you can find a lot of widgets): WordPress Widgets (WPW) is like a plugin, but designed to [...]

As you may notice, at the top of the rightmost column of this blog I am showing the latest posts of the forum.
I did not find any widget fitting my needs so I had to solve the problem by myself. And I am going to tell you how.
At the moment it's not a widget, just [...]

This is not a proper tutorial, but an additional hint about WP customization.
In the previous part I told you how to create a custom WP header. Following that tutorial you should be able to create your own custom header.
But obviously every blog has a custom header. How to differentiate from the masses?
How about having a [...]

October 10th, 2007 update: part 2 is online
Since I installed WordPress, I always wanted to make a theme on my own, but I've never had the time to learn how to do it.
In these last days, when I installed the Torn theme, I started playing and messing with WP files, and now I think I [...]

Today finally I decided to upgrade my WP engine to WordPress 2.2.3 and abandon the TripleK2 theme.
Since I installed the TK2 I was forced to miss all updates because the theme wasn't as flexible as it seemed, in my opinion.
The new theme is based on Torn 2.0 by Solostream but I am slighty changing and [...]

When you need to execute php code inside a WP post you are in trouble. So was I, when I tried to do it.
But I found a plugin that saved my life, and my blog.
This plugin lets you execute dynamic PHP code in posts. It masks PHP code before balanceTags, and unmask them afterwards, so [...]

I was about to give up, but finally I found a WP theme that fits my needs!!!
And it's easy to modify too!
I am talking about blog.txt, an elastic, two-column layout for WordPress 2.0+. It’s styled, but light with less than 300 lines of CSS. With its (somewhat) unique theme options, you can easily make blog.txt [...]

Browsing the internet, I noticed the necessity to have a blog in two or more languages. It's a necessity I'm having too, so the first thing I did was a search into the official WordPress plugin repository, convinced that the solution to my problem was a few clicks away.
I was much, much wrong.
Anyway I observed [...]