Designparc

By Ryan Olson

Learn how to build a Custom homepage for your WordPress Theme using Page Templates: Complete with a featured content slider, and customizable Widgets.

Read full article: http://www.tutorial9.net/web-tutorials/custom-wordpress-homepage-with-customizable-widgets/

WordPress 3.0: The 5 Most Important New Features by Brian Casel

Top 10 Ways to Tweak Your WordPress Theme by Brian Casel

HOW TO: Get Up-to-Date on WordPress 3.0 by Christina Warren

HOW TO: Secure Your WordPress Blog by Christina Warren

http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2010/07/06/how-to-use-the-new-custom-menu-feature-in-wordpress-3-0/

http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2010/02/04/split-wordpress-content-into-multiple-sections/

One of the most commonly seen security tips around the WordPress-o-Sphere has got to be this:

Don’t display your WordPress version number publicly
Many WordPress developers often display the WordPress version in the source code. But having this information publicly available makes it easy for attackers to exploit known vulnerabilities on a particular WordPress version.

This sort of thinking is referred to as “security through obscurity,” and may or may not be an effective way to increase the overall security of your site.

Just place this single line into your theme’s functions.php file:

remove_action(‘wp_head’, ‘wp_generator’);

Original article: http://digwp.com/2009/07/remove-wordpress-version-number/

NOTE: This caused an admin login error after adding ddaccordion.js to ToryClark.com

WordPress “Press This” bookmarklet – grab bits of the web from any page & add them to your blog!

Press This is a bookmarklet, which is a neat word for a little app that runs in your browser and lets you grab text, images and videos from the web and post them to your WordPress.com blog. Use Press This to grab bits of the web from any page and add them to your blog!

View the rest: http://en.support.wordpress.com/press-this/

http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress

Adding a “Home” link to the Pages Menu in WordPress 2.9.2.

Example site: http://www.toryclark.com/

One simple change to the header.php file makes the Home page link show up in the Pages Menu. Add the number “1″ between the = symbol and the & symbol. See red-colored 1 in the second example below:

Find:
<?php wp_page_menu(‘show_home=&sort_column=menu_order, post_title&link_before=<span>&link_after=</span>’); ?>

Change to:
<?php wp_page_menu(‘show_home=1&sort_column=menu_order, post_title&link_before=<span>&link_after=</span>’); ?>

Lots of help from the WordPress codex: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_page_menu

Setting a shipping rate that correctly displays in both the shopping cart AND the sidebar Widget!

Step 1:
WP e-Commerce Admin > Settings > Shipping:

• In the General Settings section, set Use Shipping to Yes and type ZIP code in the Base Zipcode/Postcode box.
• Then tick the check-box next to Flat Rate in the Shipping Modules section.
• Next, click the invisible “edit” link that’s located to the right of Flat Rate and make sure both of the Base Local boxes are empty.

Step 2:
WP e-Commerce Admin > Settings > Products:

• In the Edit Product column, in the Shipping Details section, type the shipping price in the Flat Rate Settings/Local Shipping Fee box.

WP e-Commerce shopping cart (v 3.7.5 RC3) for WordPress: Change “P&P” text to “S&H” for shipping & handling on product page.

- For WP e-Commerce shopping cart, version 3.7.5 RC3 (released Oct 20, 2009)
- File located at: wp-e-commerce/languages/EN_en.php
- Line 757:
Change: define(’TXT_WPSC_PNP’, ‘P&amp;P’);
To: define(’TXT_WPSC_PNP’, ‘S&amp;H’);