How to resize embeds throughout your blog.

I’m going to be showing you a short simple way to resize all the embedded videos from youtube, vimeo, dailymotion and other supported sites with wordpress 2.9+. 1. Log into your server with your favourite ftp program (I recommend filezilla.) 2. Navigate to your wp-includes folder, and download your “media.php” file to your desktop. 3. [...]

Taking control over your Widget Arguments

WordPress allows you to add widget areas where ever you want and while we can create custom widgets some times it’s essential to be able to manipulate the arguments of the default ones. This more then being a tutorial is a guide of the filters we can use to manipulate the arguments that these widgets have.

Quick Tip: Getting your Feed Count from FeedBurner

Its been a week since my last post, I’m sorry but work and school has had me tied up. This is really just a quick tip on how to get your feed count from Google FeedBurner. As we all know FeedBurner was bought out by Google some time ago, since then Google has merged all [...]

How to create a twitter link using bit.ly to shorten URLs in WordPress

While creating the new version of Slimmity i decided not to use a plugin for the social links. After reading a post over at ThemeForest’s blog i decided to include the code directly in my theme, all was good untill i got to the twitter button, that’s where it got a bit complicated.