How customizable is a self-hosted WordPress blog compared to a Blogger blog?

The front-end customization options in self-hosted WordPress are absolute. You can edit whatever you want in PHP/HTML templates and CSS style sheets. While WordPress comes with single theme (“Twenty Ten” at moment) the availability of third party free and paid themes for it is huge. See: Where can I download WordPress themes from? for good … Read more

Conditional tag

If it is a single page: is_single() returns TRUE. If a $post is in a specific category: in_category( $cat ) returns TRUE. It needs $cat as ID, name or (string) slug. Anyway: Searching for a list of conditional tags isn´t that hard.

Very Simple Geo targeting

I personally really like the GEO service provided by ip-api.com It is very simple to use and a sample PHP code to grab the countryCode would give you what you need very simply. You can do MUCH more and you can read the full doc on it but for your specific needs listed, here is … Read more

Advise on Custom Taxonomies and Structure

That’s how you resister taxonomy. This will add author as taxonomy <?php /** * @uses Register Book Author Taxonomy * @uses Adds query vars * @author Nirpendra Patel * @return void **/ function reg_tax_author() { $authors = array( ‘name’ => _x( ‘Authors’, ‘Taxonomy plural name’, ‘b_thebookstore’ ), ‘singular_name’ => _x( ‘Author’, ‘Taxonomy singular name’, ‘b_thebookstore’ … Read more

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