browsing the development tag
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.
How I Did Multiple Feature Categories in Checkmate
Now with twice as much code!
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.
Get the Category ID in WordPress
Useful for theme developers.
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.