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If you haven’t heard of Facebook’s HipHop for PHP you probably don’t care. If you have heard you probably want [...]
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.
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 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.
Write Your Own Related Posts Plugin
A detailed tutorial and intro into writing simple plugins and widgets
I take you deeper into the rabbit hole with widgets and show you how to create your own more advanced related posts widget. Use arrays, SQL queries, and more!
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.