Category: Wordpress

  • Hiddy: slim down your spam queue on WordPress

    It’s been over two months since my last post, sorry 😳 Let’s talk about a great Italian plugin for WordPress: Hiddy. Hiddy is a simple and light plugin that adds a field to the comments form: this field has a pseudo-random name (chosen among a set of “interesting” names, like e-mail, url, etc.) and is…

  • Add Technorati tags to WordPress posts

    There are several WordPress plug-ins that allow to add Technorati tags at the end of your posts. In my experience with WordPress plug-ins, I tend to prefer the simpler ones for an elementary reason: usually reliability is inversely proportional to complexity 😉 On this basis I chose SimpleTags. SimpleTags allows to manage TAGS directly inside…

  • Self made tag cloud for WordPress

    In this tutorial I will show you how to create a simple tag cloud with WordPress categories and place it in your sidebar without using external plug-ins or widgets (you can read here an Italian article about the same argument). You can write the following code inside the sidebar.php file in your template, or create…