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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.
Quick Tip: Delay Page Loading with jQuery
A Simple, Unique Effect
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.
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?“.
WordPress Navigation Helper Function, Comments and Posts
And A Little Quicky About Hiding Navigation Blocks
A quick tip on only displaying navigation blocks when there is actually navigation to be displayed. Oh and a full navigation helper function you can drop into your themes to keep things nice and clean.
WordPress Theme Tools Project Announcement
A library of code to make advanced themes easier
A new project for WordPress theme developers which will make creating advanced themes easier and quicker. The project will be a library of code that can be dropped into a theme and give the developer quick access to things like theme options, custom widgets, and tailor made functions.
WordPress Posts Navigation Quick Tip
Get links to show even if there are no more pages to link to
Say you want to use the next_posts_link() and previous_posts_link() functions to display your post navigation. But you want to use some clever looking arrow images(or just plain boring text). You also want the images(or that plain boring text) grayed out when there are no more pages to link to.
New WordPress 2.7 Functions
I go over some of the new functions and features of WordPress 2.7
WordPress 2.7 includes a few new exciting features and functions for theme developers. I go over how to use these functions and give a few links on learning more about WordPress 2.7.
Complex WordPress Conditional Tags
Easy and Powerful in a Simple Package
The WordPress conditional tags are some of the most powerful tools a theme designer can master. As WordPress themes get more complicated and more CMS like, everyone will eventually run into the need for conditionals.
Quick Tip: List Hover Effect with jQuery
A nice little way to add razzamataz to your site
A while ago a user asked me how the widget hover effects were done in my Checkmate theme. Well I’m [...]
Separating and Hiding Trackbacks with Jquery in WordPress 2.7
And a whole comments file just for you!
If you’re designing and coding themes for WordPress, please, I beg you, for love of all that is digitized and Tron like, separate your trackbacks and pingbacks from your comment threads. This tutorial goes over separating comments and pings and adding a little jQuery spice.