If you’ve built your WordPress theme to use the Featured Image functionality, your RSS feed subscribers are missing part of your post.

When you use a small thumbnail, you may not think much about it. However, there may be instances where you want to include your post thumbnail. Of course, there are those WordPress theme designs that include a large wide Featured Image that can add a lot to the feeling of a post. Sure, you could simply insert the image at the top of the post, but there are some other functions you can do in WordPress by calling a posts Featured Image.

With this WordPress snippet, you can have the best of both worlds. Here’s how to add your post thumbnail/Featured Image to your RSS feed:

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Although WordPress is often used as a full-fledged CMS, it isn’t nativly. Sure, it’s getting closer, but let’s face it — WordPress is still blog centric.

That being said, I really love WordPress and still use it as a basic CMS. Let’s just say, you’re not going to ever find Amazon running on WordPress.

Since WordPress isn’t built as a hardcore CMS out of the box, there are some modificaitons you can do that can mold it into more of one.

Here are five WordPress Administratoin modifcations you’re going to love.

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For a very long time, now, WP-PageNavi has been a very popular plugin to use for pagination. It’s well built, easy to customize and easy to add to your theme. Plus, it handles pagination for everything — post pages, comments and post archives.

But, did you know WordPress has this function already built-in? It’s just takin some time for it to be unearthed, and hopefully after learning how to use the WordPress function, you can start using it and give yourself one less plugin to deal with!

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Whenever you upload a JPEG image into WordPress, it automatically compresses the image quality.

If you’re a photographer using WordPress as a portfolio website, or a graphic designer for that matter, you may not want WordPress compressing your image or you may want to do the compression yourself and keep WordPress’ hands off the image altogether.

On the flip side of that coin, WordPress’ 90% image compression default could be dialed down a little, thus, saving some bandwidth and increasing site speed.

No matter your reason for changing the WordPress JPEG image compression setting, here’s how:

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The cool guys over at MobiFreaks needed an easier way to generate QR codes, so they began to search around for a new solution.

Originally, they would manually create a QR code for each and every article and add them to the post.

With the help of QR Server, they put together an awesome solution.

Check this out:

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8BIT‘s Master Yoda Coda Coder Tom McFarlin has dropped a second post over at wptuts+ in a series of posts focusing on the WordPress Settings API.

If you’ve ever wanted to dig into the WordPress Settings API, this is the place to start.

When you first start looking at Tom’s tutorial, it’s a tad overwhelming. When you spend most of your time tinkering with themes and functions, it’s like looking at something completely different.

Don’t worry. This is still considered “beginner level,” so get your elbows dirty!

Here’s what you’ll be covering:

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A few months ago, I posted a series on How-To Create a WordPress Church Events Page.

There have been a few updates to the posts and the church website I originally built it for has been cruising along splendidly these past few months.

Recently, I was ask by an awesome ChurchMag reader about how to add a list of link titles, displaying the upcoming events on the front page.

Something like this:

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