Even if there’s a lot of quality WordPress widgets available, sometimes none exactly fits what you need. In that case, you’ll have to create your very own widget. It may sound difficult at first, but it is not if you have a little programming experience.

Yesterday morning, the first thing I did after opening my browser was try logging into my WordPress dashboard. But neither the blog would load nor the login page.

After reading this post about using the excerpt on pages 2 or higher of the comment loop, I discovered the variable that will give a similar solution to that for duplicate content in pages 2 or higher of the wordpress loop.

There are a number of options available to publish articles to your blog outside of your WordPress Write panel such as through XML-RPC via a third party blogging client or through an application such as the one available for the iPhone. However, did you know that you can also publish posts through email?

You may have noticed that, thanks to the magic of Gravatar, commenters on this blog now have faces besides the comments. Gravatar stands for Globally Recognized Avatar and what it does is to allow people to create an account, register as many emails as you may have and attach avatars to each.