Dan Philibin

I had a few minutes at Starbucks before a client meeting yesterday so I decided to tackle the next plugin on my idea list. With the Login Logo plugin, you change the logo on WordPress’s login screen to an image of your choice via a simple options screen. It’s a two step process with a built-in image upload form, a text box for the image URL, and a submit button. I’ve released this plugin over at WPCandy, so head on over there to download it.

This is a simple plugin that allows you to set the background image for a particular container from the WordPress control panel. This is useful for sites like photoblogs that often have a “featured” image at the top of the page. This plugin supports up to 10 separate containers.

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I’d like to announce my first WordPress plugin, which hasn’t really been named so call it the Post Switcher plugin for now. This plugin will create a sweet content switcher box on the homepage of your site where users can flip through recent posts by clicking on the thumbnails. It’s built from scratch…well, sort of - I used the amazing jQuery idTabs plugin to make this happen. View the demo or read more about it.

I have decided to list WPCustomization on SitePoint. I feel that I can’t keep up with the workload that I get from this site and I need to spend more time on my studies and other web-related projects It sold for $2750 on SitePoint.com on January 14, 2008.

For all you WordPress fans out there, I’ve turned the “flare” creation from this tutorial into a beautiful desktop background. Below is a wide range of sizes for you to choose from. Thanks to reader Rosano Coutinho for the idea!

I also have a new RSS feed for anyone that’s interested.

I’d like to introduce a new service: WordPress Blog Customization. It’s a totally new service - literally (uploaded an hour ago!) - that will turn your blog design into a fully-customized WordPress blog theme in 24 hours. If you don’t have the dough to get it done in 24 hours, don’t worry! There are also more affordable 48-, 72-, and 96-hour time frames available. Check it out!

I’ve decided to re-write for Windows users the two tutorials I have written for Mac users where you learn how to install MAMP and proceed to run WordPress blogs. When designing WordPress themes, it’s nice to be able to store them locally to test them instead of uploading files to a web server. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to set up WordPress locally on Windows and then manage multiple blogs with their own themes.

This tutorial has been moved to the WPCustomization.com Blog.

When designing WordPress themes, it’s nice to be able to store them locally to test them instead of uploading files to a web server (though Transmit makes it quite easy). In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to set up WordPress locally on your Mac and then manage multiple blogs with their own themes.

This tutorial has been moved to the WPCustomization.com Blog.