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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.
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.
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.
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.
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 [...]
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!
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.