Technical notes

The Best Loop

Template themes which use the more recent format for the loop are more flexible and allow for easier adaptation than older style templates. ...

A Rant about the WordPress Default Kubrick Theme

It looks crisp and clean, it works well as a blog layout and appears to faultlessly embody WordPress. If all you want to do is use it, the Default (Kubrick) theme which comes with WordPress is ideal. But if you want to tailor it, beware... ...

WordPress Functions

Getting to grips with WordPress functions seems to be the only real way into understanding WordPress enough to be comfortable creating and modifying templates, as I want to do. The Function Reference seems a handy link to remember but the Search function rarely seems to find it (perhaps because ...

Plugins

These are the Plugins which I think will be most useful for my "typical" website. Maintenance mode - a handy option which allows you to display a politeĀ "website unavailable" message to visitors, while still allowing signed-in administrators access to view the website. Visualize Advanced Features - ...

Admin Test

What I want to do here is to include an admin link. And then see if, when you click on it, it will allow/force a login and then take you directly to the edit page that I have selected ...