For the last door in our Advent Calendar I had something special in mind. This year is coming to an end and I'm sure some of our readers want to quit smoking next year. To support their goal, I created a WP Engineer Quit Smoking Widget. Here a screenshot of all setting possibilities: And this is how... Read More »

Until now you had to use a query in your theme or a Plugin to adjust the design or the content according to a specific category. In version 2.9 the template hierarchy gets expanded and you can create with the help of a slug an own template. Here is an example: some posts with short news - a microblog. Therefore... Read More »

Especially in Germany we have the tradition of an Advent Calendar. An Advent calendar is a special calendar which is used to count down the days from December the 1st to Christmas Eve December 24th. An Advent Calendar has 24 doors, one of which is opened every day during Advent. Each door opens to reveal an... Read More »

There are things in WordPress, I do not like. This includes the gallery. Not that the idea behind it is bad. It is just poorly implemented. But only criticizing is not fair. Let's see what you can do better. The problem of the gallery is the style sheet, which is simply written in the Post. So that the page no... Read More »

A little tip for all users of the existing beta of WordPress 2.9 and for all who wish to update soon to the new version. With version 2.9 WordPress conducts its own routine to optimize the database. Previously it was done by either Plugins or via SQL access. From the next version this function is implemented in the core... Read More »