Sometimes you only want to show posts that you’ve added a specific custom field to. For instance, lets say you write book and movie reviews and for each you give them a custom field “review_type” with the value set to either “book” or “movie”. So how would you show posts [...]

My first-ever bug reported to the WordPress Trac website has officially been patched! About two months ago while developing the Absolute Privacy WordPress plugin I noticed that trying to add new roles (ie subscriber, administrator, etc) often ended in frustrating PHP warnings. I found the problem and suggested a fix [...]

For all those RSS lurkers, it’s time to come and visit the site. I’ve just updated JohnKolbert.com with an re-vamped look. It’s intentionally similiar to the previous theme. I’ve tried not to do anything too drastic. My goal with JohnKolbert.com is to have a consistent theme that I don’t feel [...]

I’ve decided to start a new series of posted called “From the Forums.” Here I’ll feature posts from the official WordPress forums along with my response to them.
Today’s is a simple question for beginners to the WordPress world. “How do you change the blog title after installing WordPress?” (link). When [...]