Wow, that seemed like a pretty long week. I don’t know why, but it just did. Anyway, it’s Sunday, and that means its time for another weekly roundup.

Another edition of the FTL Saturday Snippets! Today, I’m going to quickly teach you how to modify the way Wordpress uses excerpts. Excerpts, as I’m sure you already know, are the few brief sentences taken from the beginning of a post (or from the “Excerpt” field) that are displayed in place of the full blog post itself.

Custom Fields are one of the most powerful features in Wordpress. Most newbies are either afraid of these mysterious input areas or just plain ol’ don’t even know they exist. In this post, my goal is to enlighten you on what exactly the Custom Fields are and provide some examples of what they can be used for.

This post is directed mainly to people that are somewhat new to working with and developing Wordpress themes. I know when I first started out, tutorials and articles like this one were extremely useful to me. I remember I didn’t even know what the hell a “jQuery” was just a few months ago.

Today’s a big day for the ForTheLose.org readers. As a way of saying thank you to all of you loyal followers for increasing the popularity and success of this once-small site by over 1,000% in just the past month, I decided to put together a big ol’ giveaway just for you. I’ve contacted some sponsors and even threw in a prize of my own, all in all totaling over $300.
Once the giveaway is over, I will pick 3 …

And another week down. Glad to say to all of those who have been following my expeditions on Twitter that those ad networks I’ve been waiting to get a response from have finally contacted me and I can finally get my second niche site project underway. Now that I have that hurdle jumped, time to move onto new things.