Every-time I created a word press theme, I felt the need to allow my theme users to use on their contents, the CSS styles that I had created to the theme itself.

They were especially created in order to maintain a visual identity between the layout and the contents, and should be directly applied at the author’s will! – How-come the styles, created specially for that theme (my CSS Classes), weren’t available to be applied trough the default WYSIWYG text editor?

My objective was allowing users to be able to apply the custom styles, in the default panel, using the panels own logic, without any particular knowledge of HTML or CSS and without having to stick to the editor’s default predetermined styles.

In this brief tutorial I’ll explain a very simple way to do this, just by adding a couple of lines of code to your theme’s functions.php, and by creating a very simple CSS file to host your custom styles.

In my previous article about this subject (www.wdmac.com/word-press-custom-css-styles-in-the-wysiwyg-editor) we’ve edited a couple of WP core files, and the result was satisfactory. However those edits where lost on every WP upgrade, and that was not satisfactory at all. This is a clean, straightforward technique, that is “permanent” and non-upgrade-dependent.

This article was updated: November 3th, 2011

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I was trying to find a way to keep one of my blogs updated while on a two week motorcycle vacation across Europe.  I needed an easy, hassle-free, non-expensive way to update small road-side bits of information.

I have several applications that would do it, like:

- Publishing directly via e-mail does not allow images, and needs an extra step checking the email to post.

- Installing a mobile UI

- Adding a custom posting interface, etc. etc.

But all this required a moderate time-consuming mobile connection, and if your are doing it abroad (roaming), by the end of the two week journey you phone bill will be grown quite fat….

What I really needed was something like an SMS, or MMS. E-mails can be sent via MMS with a fixed price. But directly publishing to WordPress via email (as i’ve described in my previous article “word press posting via e-mail” ), is a bit limited.

So I’ve done a bit of research and… 

Twitting your Word Press Posts (via RSS feed parsing)

What is the “twittMeUp” plugin?

This new plugin allows you to automatically update your twitter account with your latest word press post.

This means that every time you write or edit a post, the plugin will update your twitter account. Every time you post, twittMeUp will parse the chosen RSS feed and update the last feed entry in to your twitter account. And that’s it!

Start Posting and let twittMeUp keep your twitter updated!

Download twittMeUp Here (Updated 09/02/2010)

There are very key differences between posts and pages in your Word Press blog.

This content, wich excerpts the WordPress Codex, is a simple explanation of the differences between wordpress Pages and Posts.

From my own experience with clients, I’ve found these concepts are not so straight forward to understand to new Word Press users (beginner users) and newbie “webmasters”.