If you plan on reducing your expenses, the first place to look is probably your spending behaviour. I was actually surprised at how regular personal spending can be. I track all my expenses and yes they’re pretty predictable: food, clothing, gas, even accidental ‘big’ spends (like a spare tyre, gifts, broken phone, medical, etc.) average [...]

Sometime around mid-November, I started a hobby out of looking for and tweeting sarcastic quotes. Twitter gets rid of tweets over a year old according to a sage friend of mine . So I thought I’d share these (almost none of them are mine). I’ve kept them with the hash tags (feel free to copy [...]

Changing the WordPress RSS is one of the most arduous tasks ever … unless you know how to use hooks. Hooks are basically functions that do something to an existing process. Think about it this way, if you were making a cup of coffee, a hook would be sugar that makes a bitter tasting beverage [...]

A friend asked me to put up recent comments on http://www.7achy.com You could use a plugin, but writing your own function gives you a lot more control. Here is a function called getRecentComments [surprise surprise!] that puts out basic information about recent comments in an unordered list. Copy and paste the function into your theme’s [...]

Ever wanted to know how you can generate related posts with a function? Here’s the code for a related posts based on tags and categories; fully commented. Copy and paste the function into your theme’s functions.php then call it in your loop or anywhere else like this: echo getRelatedPosts($postID); Replace $postID with the post ID [...]