Creating a Chart on Your WordPress Archives Page

For 100% Less Boring Archives

One part of WordPress that I’ve never been overly impressed with is archives. This isn’t so much a WordPress problem as it an archive problem, archives are inherently boring. As a result of this revelation I’ve spent some time thinking up new ways to present the information. My latest idea was adding charts to represent some of the data from the archives.

On a site I recently worked on I wanted to have an animation before the next page loaded. What I wanted to happen was: user clicks a link, animation plays out, page is loaded normally. It is a nice little effect, but this is probably a trick you want to use sparingly…please…use it sparingly.

Press75 Releases Two New Plugins

Using WordPress Just Got Better

here are a few things that have been the realm of premium themes and some rare free themes: post thumbnails, and easy video embedding(that doesn’t suck). Press75 just released two simple yet powerful and incredibly useful plugins.

DRY WordPress Theme Coding

D.R.Y., not dry, as opposed to wet.

Don’t Repeat Yourself is the rule, the name of the game, and what you should apply to just about everything you code. So what is DRY? In it’s simplest form it means don’t write the same code over and over again.

Dynamic Multi-level Page Menus in WordPress

Making it easy, well trying to

Something I often see while trolling boards (and engaging in flame wars) is the question: “How do I display a menu with a parent level and child level, but only if the current page actually has child pages?“.