You probably have noticed the characters—usually arrows—displayed on some navigation menus to indicate the presence of subitems under an item. I find them helpful, and I recently looked to see if it was possible to have them displayed on a CSS drop-down menu by using only CSS (that is, without any JavaScript assistance). In this howto I explain the solution I arrived at: More
Whether you use WordPress as a weblog tool to publish articles in reverse chronology or as a more traditional CMS to publish pages arranged in a hierarchy, your webpages probably have a page navigation menu somewhere near the top. Sooner or later there comes a time when you need a way to manage this menu better. In fact, if your content is hierarchically arranged pages, this time comes right at the beginning. More
... and that I would probably try to steal from if I ever, against all reason, decided to do a proper website design myself. I hope you’ll enjoy them too! More
After six months in preparation, the first beta version of WordPress 2.8 was released on 16 May 2009. Following WordPress 2.7, which focused mainly on the UI, WordPress 2.8 brings changes that are more evenly distributed across all areas. There are big improvements in the user interface, but there is a much larger amount of not immediately obvious improvements in two main areas: More
UPDATED 2009-06-17
WordPress plugins are like Firefox extensions: there are thousands—literally!—and there is one for everything. If you can think of a way to modify or extend Firefox or WordPress, most likely someone else has already thought about it and made it into an extension or a plugin. More