Not unlike your tagline, you should have a mission statement on your blog. If you don’t, now is the time to add it.
Even though mission statements typically appear in larger organizations and companies, it doesn’t mean that your blog should be excluded, no matter how small or large. The average blog user should even add [...]

This is a function I’ve found very useful in a number of Wordpress themes I’ve been developing, whereby I want to randomly select and display one of a set number of jpgs (called 1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg et cetera)
The magic function is rand() which returns a random integer. There are two uses
int rand (void)
int rand [...]

by Jean-Baptiste Jung
2008 was a very good year for the WordPress community. The software was updated numerous times, leading to the recent release of version 2.7, and many new blogs dedicated to WordPress were created. Of course, tons of new hacks were discovered, which helped lots of bloggers enhance their blogs.
In this article, we’ll show [...]

How to check if you have mod_rewrite?
Use the following PHP info function to get the details about your PHP version:
Paste this into a new Notepad / BBEdit file
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
Save as info.php
Upload to server. Visit in your browser (www.example.com/info.php)
That will give you info about your php version and mod_rewrite.
The info.php file returns a page outlining [...]

If the plugin is not activated, it will “break” the Theme and it may report errors or fail to load. It is therefore imperative to prevent the plugin from being detected in case it is turned off.
To check if a plugin is installed, you can use a simple function_exists() check. The if (function_exists()) checks for [...]