Category: WordPress

WordPress: “Magazine style” Horizontal dropdown menu

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 124 Comments

Even if most blogs have a very simple navigation, Worpress allows you to create very advanced menus. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a “Magazine Style” horizontal drop-down menu, for your categories or even your pages.

ISIS Ads Management : WordPress Widget to Display 125*125 Ads

by X-OR. 68 Comments

Recently i released a small widget for wordpress (Show125) which handle the 125*125 Ads, one of the most used format to show ads on blog.

But i was not satisfied of its user interface, That’s why i rethink the whole project !!! Here comes a new Widget To Manage and Show your 125*125 Ads : ISIS Ads Management.

5 plugins and tips to secure your WordPress blog

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 48 Comments

Webmasters and bloggers often have a huge fear of being hacked, and the more a website is popular, the more it is exposed to various hacking attempts. Here are 5 tips and plugins that will allow you to secure your Wordpress install, because prevention is always better than cure!

WordPress How-to: customize the IWPhone plugin

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 14 Comments

I just wrote a post about the IWPhone plugin on Hack Wordpress. This very handy plugin creates an iPhone/iPod Touch friendly version of your blog, by removing unecessary elements, auto-scaling images and adapt content to iPhone/iPod resolution, allowing you to read the content without even having to zoom. Even if this plugin is great, you’ll have to customize it a bit in order to make it perfectly fits your blog design.

How to : Make a control panel for your wordpress theme

by X-OR. 71 Comments

Mimbo is one of the most used magazine theme for wordpress, it’s a great theme ! The only weakness is the way you change its options … Manually in the code …
It’s why i decided to create my own custom mimbo theme which includes a control panel. In this post I’m going to show you how you can create a control panel for your theme (in this example I will use mimbo).

WordPress How to: Customize OpenBook theme color scheme

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 39 Comments

Since the release of the OpenBook, many bloggers asked me how they can modify the color scheme of the theme. Before the release of OpenBook next version, which will probably allow the user to set the colors in Wordpress admin panel, here’s an easy, step by step guide to give your OpenBook theme the look you want, even if you don’t know any web language.

How to: Breadcrumb function for WordPress

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 88 Comments

Unfortunely, Wordpress doesn’t have a default function to display a breadcrumb. We’ll see how to create this navigation technique, and display it on our posts, pages and categories archives.

WordPress: OpenBook premium theme available for download

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 101 Comments

Looking for a premium Wordpress theme, with magazines features and a very cool design, but don’t want to pay a single buck? If so, you’re just at the right place. Here’s OpenBook, a theme I originally made up for my personnal weblog lyxia.org, but which is now available for free download.

How to: Get rid of the nofollow attribute on your WordPress blog

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 88 Comments

Wordpress, like many other blog engines, uses the rel=”nofollow” attribute in comments for the so-called fight against spam. If this was a good idea, it is totally ineffective, and in addition, a link with this attribute will not receive any credit by Google when they rank websites. It is therefore clearly in the interest of bloggers to get rid of rel=”nofollow” attribute.