Not that at this time, these intructions are valid for V163 only. Thats not to say they won’t work with later versions (I’m sure it will), but finding the exact code to change may be hard. Anyway, read through them all before starting. In some cases, you may want to just comment things out instead of deleting them (read how to do this at the end). And feel free to ask questions.

1. Install http://semiologic.com/software/static-front/ and don’t activate just yet
2. Create a page and give it the slug of home. This will become your static front page.
3. Create a category called blog, and shove all posts into this category or just move all other categories into it. (you don’t have to call it blog FYI)

4. [optioinal] Edit your permalink structure. You cannot remove /category/ from the permalink structure so I changed

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Using EZ Maps in WordPress turned out to be, well…. easy! For now, enjoy the map below. Soon, I will write on how I accomplished this task.
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This post has an inline ad. I simply used this plugin called adsense, and then added a bit of CSS to float the ads to the right. It is very simple. Follow the instructions for editing your adsense information, as written on the plugin’s website. Add the css to make it float. Here is what my plugin now looks like: » Read the rest of the entry..

This code has been updated for K2.

Recently, I showed how to create a dynamic sticky for wordpress. This allows you to keep a post of a certain category at the top of your blog while posts from other categories are ordered as normal below it. You can see it in action here at maxpower. If this is new to you I suggest you read the first post, creating a dynamic sticky for wordpress, for a more indepth explanation of why and what this does. » Read the rest of the entry..