Wordpress is an extremely powerful content management system, and while we are drupal heads over here at SOTC, Wordpress is still to be loved and respected. It offers not only users, but also developers an easy to use system that allows easy content construction and management. Today, using Wordpress 3.0.1, we are going to make a very simple Wordpress plugin that will introduce you to the basics of developing in the Wordpress system.

Design is important on any project. Anything from the user interface down to the button icons are an important part of the overall design. But when you are on the web, there is one design element that slacks big time when it comes to choices: fonts. Typefaces on the web have been a major complaint of web designers since the web began, and there is no real trend that shows there will be support for more than just web-safe fonts anytime soon. To make things worse, there is not much you can do about the issue. Images seem to be the most widely used and accepted medium for custom type-facing, but today we will discuss another choice: sIFR.

We get a lot of comments here on the blog and, surprise surprise, many of them include code. You may have noticed that in all of our posts we have nicely formatted and color highlighted code - and now, anyone can use this feature in our comments.

It doesn't matter where you are, comment boxes never seem to be the right size for what you're trying say. A great way to fix the problem is to let the user resize the comment box to fit their needs. This tutorial is going to demonstrate how to take our resizable textbox and incorporate into your installation of Wordpress.

Recently we've begun to see a deluge of spam comments across our poor little blog - most centering around pictures of things that nobody really wants to see anyway. As much fun as it is filtering through hundreds of spam messages trying to find the ones that matter, we thought it was time to do something.