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…

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…

Here is the scenario:

You have a Wordpress blog in a subfolder on your website. The main website might be static html or even php pages and you want to display your Wordpress blog posts on the other ‘main website’ pages.

How do you do that?

Well I shall enlighten thee! Firstly I assume that you have your blog site in a subfolder (my subfolder is cms – so…

I thought I would add this as a quick follow on from my previous tutorial showing you how to make a login form in your Wordpress sidebar (find it here), it used a technique to show a menu once a user had logged in.

So if you want to hide a menu from readers but show it to registered users you could use the following example:

Say…

As you can see I use a sidebar login for here on Effutio.com that completely bypasses the standard Wordpress 2.8 login screen page. No big deal you may be thinking but it is one less page that users have to wait to load, it adds a professional look and encourages people to login.

OK now that you are convinced that being able to login from home page (or any…