Since the blog is almost five years old, I must seriously redesign it. The problem is: there are so many beautiful blog themes out there I really do not know how to redesign my blog. That’s why I am asking you some suggestions. How should this blog look like? Which features would you add? Help [...]

As promised, here I am with the Triqui MochiAds Arcade plugin for WordPress fixed to start feeding again. The problem is Mochi guys added a new field called “languages” that wasn’t supported by the database table. I hope you will keep on using the plugin, and I want to inform you I am writing the [...]

We know there are hundreds of plugins to let you host a contact form in WordPress, but I am going to show you how to create your own one. We are about to create a custom contact page that will work under WP 3.0, and more precisely with Twenty Ten theme. Obviously, with some minor [...]

WordPress new major release is here!!! Named Thelonious after the american jazz composer Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982), will represent a revolution in WP community. Major new features in this release include: a sexy new default theme called Twenty Ten Short links support Custom backgrounds Custom headers Custom shortlinks Custom [...]

When I celebrated my four years of blogging I also introduced a big problem this blog is facing: there is so much content it’s not easy to find what you are looking for. I received some interesting suggestions, and one of them is to link all posts of the same series. This is what a [...]

With new webdesign trends, standard fonts such as Arial, Times and Verdana aren’t enough to give our blog/website the loon&feel we want. That’s why today we’ll discover the magic of Google Font API. The Google Font API lets you include in your pages high-quality web fonts provided by the Google Font Directory. This means you [...]

As you should know if you are an old time reader, this blog has been hacked several times with malicious script injection. I tried to secure the blog in every possible way without any luck. Finally, I think I figured out what allowed hackers to exploit the blog. I use a custom theme built on [...]

If you are looking for a real world example made with Loading WordPress posts with Ajax and jQuery or you haven’t played LineBall yet, or you played it, you loved it and you want to know who made the music, this is the right blog post. I am finishing and polishing LineBall’s official site built [...]

After seeing how to include jQuery Ajax calls in your WordPress blog, it’s time to load posts on the fly, without reloading the page. As for the previous example I am using the standard Kubrick theme… without any plugin installed. Look how I load the posts under the header by clicking on their titles… even [...]

I want to show you how to include jQuery ajax calls in your WordPress blog. The reason is simple: sometimes you may need to update the content of a WP page without reloading the entire page. This is useful when you want the user to interact with your blog without forcing him to reload the [...]