Blogs and minimal WordPress themes share a very close connection with each other. Minimalism is one trend that is always hot in the blogging segment and no matter what kind of blog it is, minimal WordPress blog themes can give it adequate packaging and functionality. This is because these minimal templates give foremost priority to content and as you know well, content is the backbone of any blog. Of course, new design and functions keep making their entry and one has to adopt them in order to keep a blog updated.

Recently I needed to create a Facebook likebox WordPress widget for my friend, which of course can be easily created using a WordPress text widget, but since my friend is new to WordPress and has no clue about coding, and to make matters worse, she wanted to display it only on certain pages like single and category pages! So, I decided to quickly create a custom WordPress Widget, which should be flexible enough for her needs.

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a Reddit login button for your website using PHP. What is OAuth? OAuth is a protocol used to allow secure authorization to websites and applications to access user information. There are two versions of OAuth, 1.0 and 2.0. In this post we will use OAuth 2.0 to build a Reddit login system.

ImageMagick is great image processing for PHP, with ImageMagick you can resize your image, crop and do many other things in a very simple manner, it supports numerous image formats. Today we are going to create a very simple Ajax based image resize script using ImageMagick (PHP) and jQuery.