Monthly Archive for August 2014

Create a Static Front Page in WordPress — A Visual Guide

Creating a static front page in WordPress is easy, but I often encounter people who have trouble doing it. Perhaps the instructions in the Codex aren’t very visual, or all the talk about theme development on the same page puts them off. In any case, here is a quick, visual guide to creating a static …read more…

Add CSS Classes to Images in WordPress

Not many people realize how easy it is to control the appearance of selected images in WordPress by adding a CSS class to the image, but this is a very powerful tool to control the appearance of your website. For example, WordPress automatically adds a border around all images. Here’s an example: If you want …read more…

Template Parameters in MediaWiki

One of the strengths of MediaWiki is that you can use templates to include the same information across a wide number of pages. (I wish WordPress would do this.) The idea is a simple one: create a page in the `Template` namespace, and then include it in any page by wrapping its name in double …read more…