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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.
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?“.
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.
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.
Checkmate 2.0: A Free Premium WordPress Theme
The Perfect Building Block for Your Blog
Checkmate 2.0 is a popular premium WordPress theme used by people all over the world that just received a major update. It has minimalist design based on a grid with plenty of theme options, ad management and more!
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.
Get More Design Control Over WordPress 2.7 Comments
No more pulling hair out
So you got this awesome design all ready for WordPress 2.7, you even got how those pesky threaded comments planned out perfect! Oops, didn’t you know? WordPress’ comment function well, not lacking for a better term, sucks…a lot. It’ll probably get better in the future, but what to do right now? Bend them to your will, no mercy.