With the recent WordPress 3.0 release, WordPress have added a useful little feature allowing you to manage menus within a theme. This has been one of our favourite new features in WordPress 3.0 at SJL Web Design, so we have decided to share it’s brilliance and give a brief demonstration of how you can set it [...]

Behind the scenes of each WordPress website there is a MySQL database driving it. And although 99% of the time you can make changes without touching this MySQL database, there are some serious time saving queries that can turn out to be lifesavers. In this post I will be listing 6 of these uber time [...]

Recently we were working on a WordPress website with a very specific layout that meant post titles on the blog homepage could only be a certain length before they started effecting the pixel perfect layout of that page. To conquer this we decided to adopt an old method of shortening the title tag and adding [...]

We have recently been working on a WordPress website that needed two templates for different categories, one with a serious news article presence and another with a more laid back blog look and feel. We wanted this to be automatic so when the client placed a post into a category it would automatically assign it [...]

WordPress has a number of very useful search engine friendly features built-in it’s extremely comprehensive system that has allowed it to move away from being solely a blogging platform to an advanced content management system preferred by the majority of today’s web designers and developers. One of these many search engine friendly features is the [...]

Since it’s creation in 2003, WordPress has rapidly grown and has became of the most popular pieces of open source software available on the web. Starting off as a blogging platform many Web Designer now use WordPress as a comprehensive Content Management System, based on it’s adaptability, userfriendly admin panel and the inexhaustible amount of [...]