The Wordpress Guru » Tips & Tricks on Making a Killer CMS with WordPress

I’ve had a recent request regarding a popular tweak for WordPress – that is, to add custom page header images to any page in WordPress. There are one or two plugins that do this, but with a bit of creativity you can accomplish this very easily using WordPress custom fields and it’s built in image uploader. Here’s how:

I am using XAMPP to run a local version of WP on my machine for theme testing etc. I haven’t installed the PHP mail() function because its not a feature I regularly use. This presented a problem when I misplaced my login details for my local WP install and couldn’t run the ‘Lost Password’ feature. However I found a way to reset my WordPress password using a neat website and PHPMyAdmin. Here’s how.

This is far from a difficult thing to do. It’s actually so easy, its ridiculous. But I see so many people installing plugins and doing really complicated page template hacks to get this right, that I think a post dedicated to this is justified. Here’s the 30 second trick to getting a static front page.