Category Archives: Wordpress

powerful improvements and tweaks for wordpress templates

55 | WordPress Post Thumbnails with Caption

Posted on January 5, 2012 by alchymyth
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This is a tidying up of a WordPress support forum topic – nothing really that I came up with myself. The question is how to post the caption with a post thumbnail, aka featured image, in an ordered way. This … capture it all … »

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54 | Mini SEO – a Meta Description Field for Posts and Pages

Posted on January 3, 2012 by alchymyth
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Modern search engines do not rely on meta descriptions and meta keywords anymore for your ranking. However, they do preferably show a proper added meta description instead of the first few words of the post or page. If you can … Check the whole post »

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52 | Page Template Sidebar Overwrite Theme Options in Twenty Eleven

Posted on December 23, 2011 by alchymyth
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Twenty Eleven already comes with a page template to add a sidebar to static pages. However, this sidebar will always be on the same side as the sidebar on the front  page, ruled by the ‘theme options’. On some pages, … Check the whole post »

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51 | Styling the First Post Different

Posted on September 7, 2011 by alchymyth
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How to style the first / last / latest / newest post in a WordPress site different? The default advice usually is to use a counter variable and a conditional statement to check for the first post in the loop; … Check the whole post »

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