Curtis Henson

One of Checkmate’s features is the ability to select multiple categories as feature categories. It wasn’t until far after the release a user brought up the fact it didn’t work…at all. So I set off to fix it thinking it was a trivial task using query_posts or get_posts. I was wrong. To keep everything as compatible as could be and offer the ease of use I intended took some digging. I ended up skipping all of WordPress’s functions and going strait to the database by writing a custom function.

Happy WordPress Day. Today I show you how to make sections out of your Wordpress categories for a similar look to MSNBC’s site. Perfect for content heavy sites, or to complete the magazine or news theme you have been working on!

Google has released their Ajax Libraries API, and I for one welcome it. Anything I can do to speed up websites and offload files is something I’ll likely take advantage of.

It’s alive! And almost error free. I was never happy with the previous designs of this site, they seemed pasted together like a bad 80’s collage. So I set on the adventure to re-design my own site, something I hate doing because I always want to go in a thousand different directions.

A quick tip on how to make your WordPress themes more user friendly. Get a category ID from a category name and save your users some headaches.

In this post I go into more detail about ways to speed up your website, tools, apache, compression, plugins, and some wordpress tips. This post is full of info you need to feed your need for speed(and no more Top Gun references).

More function less code. I’m going to show you how to use wordpress conditional comments to write less code and create dynamic templates that are easy to update.

A basic tutorial on how to use the functions.php file to create a custom widget for use in your wordpress themes.

Sometimes the easiest things are potentially the most useful. Derek at 5ThirtyOne has written a tutorial on creating a custom database error page. Apparently this feature is now hard-coded into wordpress 2.3.2 and above, making this super easy.
The gist of it is, create a xhtml file called db-error.php and stick in the /wp-content/ [...]

Usability guru Jakob Nielson just posted a new article about the state of user skills. It is a pretty interesting read if you develop websites. The gist of the article is people are getting better at using the web. But, and there is always a but, they aren’t as skilled as most [...]