OK so I used a technique I found here: http://www.problogdesign.com/wordpress/advanced-wordpress-comment-styles-and-tricks/ to setup advanced, nested comments for effutio.

It all works fantastically untill I used the same technique on another site which used more Pages than Posts. There are two parts to the problem that happened on this site.

Firstly the “Reply” link (allowing you to reply to a specific user comment) didnt work and once the first comment was…

Holy smokes, well this took me around 2 hours to sort out so Im writing it all down so I can save people some time and remember it myself!!

Right OK if you are diving into WP you will undoubtably want to try some wonderful things with the loop, if like me to display posts from a certain category on a page. Well its pretty easy to do but…

Well for some reason or other sometimes your Wordpress feed will break, which I recently discovered here at effutio. This is normally down to a blank line (error will be on line 1 column 1 or some such) being inserted at the top of the xml file (feedburner especially doesnt like these blank lines)? This extra line could be caused by a plugin or something else, who knows and…

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Yes the annoying update/upgrade notice that appears at the top of the admin screen can be a bit annoying. It can also be quite dangerous. DANGEROUS you say…how so?

Well if you have designed a CMS for a client using wordpress and added extra things even its its simple things like changing the admin images or the memory usage. All will be wiped when the client upgrades and their…

Once you start messing about with Wordpress and looking to expand it to fit your websites requirements you will undoubtably want to use different headers, sidebars, footers and even comment templates.

Its actually really easy to do in Wordpress and because you will be utilising files that should already exist in your template, it doesnt take long at all.

I guess most people will want to change the sidebar…

I realise this is a very simple thing to achieve in Wordpress and has probably been written about a thousand times, however I thought about what a great tool it is in Wordpress’s arsenal and surprisingly not used on too many sites Ive seen.

Aside from being able to use page templates to create different page designs they are very useful when using Wordpress plugins such as NextGen Gallery…

Implementing a Google Custom Search into your Wordpress theme is actually pretty easy but requires a little bit of theme jiggery pokery!

OK so first things first:

Create a page called ’search’ or ’search results’ in the admin section of your Wordpress site. Take a note of the page id, this can normally be found if you hover the mouse pointer over the ‘View Page’ link or go to…

Just a little web design hint for your enjoyment.

If you have forms on your website you know how annoying it is that IE renders password boxes smaller than normal text boxes. Well there is a quick and easy CSS fix:

input{

font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

font-size:12px;

}

Obviously you can change the family and size to suit your site.

This is a follow on tutorial from the previous one: Menu only logged in users or certain users can see

In this one Ive added a few extra features. I suddenly thought about the previous tutorial example and saw that any logged in user can see the control panel menu in the sidebar and all the options within it. What if you only want users of a certain level…