TransformationPowerTools

When you are building or modifying a wordpress theme, you have the choice of either using ‘the_content()’ to show the full article, or ‘the_excerpt()’ to show a shorter version.
By default, the latter limits the output to the first 55 words of the post, and automatcally strips formatting and images.
To make things more flexible, the editor also allows you to add a manual excerpt that will have preference before the automatically generated one.
There is no default … » read more »

here is a little trick if you need to check some variables, or try something new in your wordpress theme while the site is live.
use a conditional if statement to check that you are logged in as the original administrator, and only then do what you need to do. this way you can perform and display the neccesary tests, without the public seing anything.
<?php
if (’1′ == $user_ID) :
echo 'you … » read more »

following question comes up regularly in the wordpress support forum: ‘i want to show my posts in three (four, five) columns, how can i do it?’
see the effect here in action: under pages ‘grid of posts’.
EDIT:
as this code can have its challenges, and is not always easy to apply, i would like to point to another approach with the same results:
Playing with columns – stacking posts in a grid.
END of EDIT
here, i am going  to … » read more »

to start, i would like to express my thanks and gratitude to all the volunteers in the wordpress forum who patiently and freely give their time and attention, and share their knowledge and experience with all the users coming with questions and problems about their wordpress installation and modifications.
a great community.
lists or posts styled with alternating color backgrounds, for instance, can inprove the readability of blogs.
most themes and the standard wordpress installation are not offering … » read more »

Part of my time, I am spending designing and troubleshooting wordpress themes.

This is my latest ‘hack’, turning the default theme that comes with every wordpress installation, into a 3 column version, with equal sized left and right sidebar columns, all dynamic and widget ready.
All functions of the default theme are fully preserved. You can still modify the header colours from within the dashboard.
All files and graphics zipped for download. A great start for learning to … » read more »