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I knew WordPress was customisable, but whenever I’ve had an idea that wasn’t an out-of-the-box function, I wasn’t able to execute it without the help of someone else’s plugin.
As proof of my ongoing PHP learning, I managed to customise WP for my Haiku blog with custom functions and an RSS feed.

So many multiple blog requests
There seems to be a lot of people wanting to know how to run multiple WordPress blogs. Some people want multiple blogs with one admin area, so it’s more convenient to post. Some people want multiple authors, each with their own blog. Some people want multiple blogs using the same database [...]

I’ve finally implemented my new blog and photoblog themes!

 
I’m not as excited as I could be because there are some bugs, mostly in IE (typical!), that I wasn’t able to check from my Mac. Now I’ve used Browsershots and hopefully I’ll be able to fix up the problems.
Have a look at the screenshots (above) [...]

Last post I talked about how to create a custom home page in WordPress, but I didn’t mention many specifics of putting stuff on the homepage.
Now I will!

The issue of using a portal-style home page in WordPress has come up a couple of times recently. I’ve tried to help some people with the code and settings. I’ve learnt a fair bit in the process that I thought was worth sharing.
WordPress can use a file called home.php as a homepage, which supercedes index.php. [...]