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 [...]

There are two ways to pull content from outside the WordPress loop (the right way and the wrong way). One of these ways (the wrong way) is to use the query_posts() function to retrieve the content from outside the loop. However, WordPress does not recommend this method as it can interfere with the main loop, [...]

In this article I will be explaining how to add Google Analytics to your WordPress dashboard using the Google Analyticator plugin for WordPress. To start with download the Google Analyticator plugin from this link, when it has finished downloading unzip the file and copy the google-analyticator folder to your plugin directory (wp-content > plugins) and [...]

Each WordPress installation comes with jQuery built-in as it uses the Javascript library in it’s dashboard area. Meaning that you don’t have to actually upload it to your server and link to it from the header.php file of your theme, instead you can add the following line of code inside the section to call it [...]