That PHP Girl

WordPress 3.1 may still be in the testing phases, but it doesn’t hurt to prepare! I was searching through the codex for the query_posts formatting tonight and found this about sticky posts: Sticky Post Parameters Sticky posts first became available with Version 2.7. Posts that are set as Sticky will be displayed before other posts [...]

Traditionally, blog posts have some sort of signature or about function built into the template that displays a snippet about the author somewhere in the post or sidebar. I recently reconsidered this functionality after reading the post Is Google Stealing Authors’ Copyright With Buzz?, because building a signature into the template works well for easily [...]

It seems like there are a million Twitter plugins and widgets for WordPress, but many are outdated, no longer updated, don’t work in WordPress 2.9.x, or are just plain useless. To help you separate the wheat from the chaff, I’ve compiled this list of ten useful plugins and widget to get your Twitter account playing [...]

Today is part one of a three-part article on using WordPress for E-Commerce. My goal is to create a sort of how-is-that-done series on using WordPress as an easy content management tool for selling actual products. Some of these techniques can be implemented by anyone, whether you are an advanced programmer or a beginner to [...]

I helped a friend out with some small changes to his site recently, Selling the Startup, and it reminded me what happens when a "quick fix" turns into a major problem. Sometimes themes can be a gamble—just like purchasing the services of any web company—so it is important to check out reviews and references before [...]

Note: This post assumes you know how to use custom page templates in WordPress as well as know how to edit text php files and upload them through FTP. If you are already lost, you can always hire me to make your custom blog archive page for you. I make a lot of sites that [...]

Version 2 of ThatPHPGirl.com reflected a shift in my marketing from a more standard theme template to something more personalized for my potential and current clients.

WordPress updates always seem easy, but when you make custom changes to your theme you will need to keep track of those in order to bring the changes to the next version. The easiest way to do this is to make a php comment in your template. For example, you might write a note like [...]

If you used parts of my post on Moving and Upgrading your WordPress to change your blog’s URL (if say, for example, you were trying to take a development site live with the final URL), and something still isn’t working right, check your .htaccess and wp-config.php files—especially if you installed WordPress through Fantastico. I recently [...]

Note: This post assumes you are using the self-installed WordPress on a Linux-based server running MySQL and phpMyAdmin. It also assumes that all your current plugins and your current theme is compatible with the latest version of WordPress. Please read through all of these instructions and make sure you know what they mean before you [...]