About a year ago, a discussion arose in the WordPress community about third-party sites that use the word “WordPress” in their domain name. We posted our opinion on this issue since WP Garage has been running (until yesterday) on a domain with the word WordPress in it. We put WordPress in our domain to show our... Read More »

Recently, one site we were working on needed a sidebar that would show the 4 most recent posts on the site. But here’s the catch: they wanted only one post per author. And, each author had to have the role of “author” as opposed to contributor or admin. The site in question is still in Beta, so I can’t give... Read More »

In the previous post, we discussed how to hack the search function in Wordpress to have an additional search form that would search  subcategories. Now that you have 2 or more search forms on your site, you might need to customize the search results. Thanks to this solution , I learned how to create multiple search... Read More »

Recently, we had a client who wanted a special recipe search. There were 2 ways to extend the search functionality – manually or dynamically. 1. Search One or More Categories Manually If we want to search one category , we could have used this solution which lets you manually add category numbers to the... Read More »

I wanted to create a simple directory of non-profit organizations. To do so,  I wanted to use pages for the directory, rather than posts so that I could separate the static directory listings from the dynamic blog posts. I didn’t want to have to exclude tons of categories from feedburner and the main loop. So,... Read More »