Scribbles about Wordpress

Wordpress- Display Google Adsense After 1st Paragraph Tag

I’ve been playing around with Google Adsense a lot lately- in particular trying to find out where the ads are best placed on a Wordpress Blog to maximise click through rates (CTR). I’ve been looking at some wordpress plugins, but I couldn’t find any that allowed me to display an ad unit after the first [...]

Wordpress: Displaying Parent Categories Only & Putting Categories Into A Foreach Loop

I’ve been working with manipulating Wordpress Categories a lot recently, so I’m just going to quickly jot down a few notes, as I’m sure I’ll need these in the future.
From what i’m aware, currently, Wordpress doesn’t allow enough flexibility when it comes to manipulating categories, especially when it comes to identifying the difference between [...]

Wordpress- Only Display Element On Homepage

A lot of the files in Wordpress are used as includes e.g Sidebar, header and footer. What if you want certain elements in those includes to appear just on the Homepage? I find myself needing that feature all the time.
Example
All you really need is one simple function. So for example, in your header you may [...]

Anyone Got Any Technical Questions About Wordpress?

We use Wordpress a lot over here- not only for our own blog, but also our clients. Consequently, a lot of our developers, including myself, are becoming more and more familiar with the Wordpress environment.

In my opinion, Wordpress is by far the best blogging platform available because it’s easy to use, works great, and has [...]

Wordpress- Get Image Path Relevant To Theme

I’ve had a few people ask me how they can link an image into a theme. Apparently they’re having problems finding the relevant path, no matter how many directories they go in and out of E.g “../../../images/mainimage.jpg”
The Problem
As a result, you’re left with something like this:

It sounds like an unbelievably simple problem, but I think [...]

Modifying Core Wordpress Files And The Content Variable

Back in the day I knew extremely little about Wordpress, and only a moderate amount of PHP, they were the times when I was most lethal. I actually used to modify the core wp-files to get the output I wanted. Consequently, when it came to upgrading wordpress versions it was a nightmare. I had to [...]

Wordpress RSS Feed Is Empty [Bug Fix]

I recently upgraded BrightCherry’s wordpress version from 2.3 to 2.5. As soon as I did that I noticed our RSS feed stopped working. Hmm…strange.
I Googled around and I couldn’t find much on the issue. I found one discussion over at Wordpress Trac; where someone else had also experienced the same issue.
However, I don’t know if [...]

What Wordpress Theme Are We Using?

BrightCherry has only opened the gates for one day and already we’ve received an email asking us what Wordpress theme we use. I suspect this question will get asked again, so I thought i’d answer the question publically.
For those that don’t know, Wordpress is a very cool and popular blogging platform. I can proudly say [...]