Although WordPress is best known as a blogging platform, it’s ability to function as a standard Content Management System (CMS) has been recognized and implemented by tens-of-thousands of web developers world wide.
If you are wondering why professionally designed websites are being developed around a FREE blogging platform, read on!
Who wouldn’t want their own custom WordPress smiley icon?
I often visit at Mike Cherim’s Beast-Blog. Mike is a genius withto WordPress, and I always learn something new when Mike writes about tweaking WordPress. Adding Your Own WordPress Smilies explains how to make your own personal smilies / emoticons for use with WordPress. Following Mike’s instructions, I was able to make a personal 1955 Design smiley in a matter of minutes. :1955:
Note: This post has been republished due to new interest in it. In addition, more detailed information and instruction has been included with the post.
I have always thought that one of the main flaws of many WordPress themes is that the main page navigation, when called by using the wp_list_pages() function, applies a title to each of the navigation links with whatever value is used in the the_title() of that particular page.
Don’t get me wrong, this is a good idea, but because of the way most navigation links are designed, the page titles need to be quite short and not very descriptive. Similarly, these themes tend to also use the_title() as the main H1 or H2 tag for the page display itself. In other words, if the navigation link says “Home”, the page title for that page usually displays as “Home” as well. This may be the way a designer wants it, but often it seems that a more descriptive page title is what’s really needed.