Archive for the ‘WordPress’ category
I’ve knocked together a little WordPress plugin for my Social Media Bookmark + icon set. At the moment it contains a couple of useful functions to add the icons into your WordPress website/blog (read on for full explanation of these) and of course contains all the icons in it too! This will be updated [...]
This isn’t the plugin that I’ve been raving about building for the past week or so but just a plugin I thought about and wrote in my lunch hour today. So just hold out a little longer before I release my first full blown WordPress plugin. Anyways, read on and download the plugin, it makes [...]
Welcome to part four of my ‘WordPress from scratch’ series! This 4th part covers setting up WordPress’s amazing comment system, getting your pages (pages.php) looking like the rest of your blog, setting up your dynamic highlighting nav’ and more! I’ve also provided code snippets below which would of bored you all to death explaining so [...]
Welcome to part three of my ‘WordPress from scratch’ series! This third part introduces you to The Loop and getting your blog to work with WordPress’s main function, blogging! I’ll also step into plugins to allow you to create thumbnails for your posts.
Welcome to part two of my ‘WordPress from scratch’ series! Since last time I have come up with a design for the blog and coded it up into XHTML and CSS. Before moving onto part two I recommend that you come up with your own design and code it up too. Though if you want [...]
Welcome to part one of my ‘WordPress from scratch’ series! This first part covers downloading and installing a localhost called MAMP, downloading WordPress and setting up a database for it and finally, installing WordPress itself. This time around I’ll be doing screen-casts as opposed to saying do this do that, so you should be able [...]
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Jun
Quick Tip #3 - Writing your own ‘is_page’ function similar to the one in WordPress
Posted by Nouveller in Quick Tips, WordPress
After building several WordPress sites lately, I’ve been getting used to writing it’s common, but useful functions to do various different things. I’ve now come to write new sites that don’t use WordPress and I miss those functions! So I’ve created my own version of the is_page function among others. View the is_page function in [...]
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Jun
Quick Tip #2 - Changing the post order on Wordpress’s category/archive pages
Posted by Nouveller in Quick Tips, WordPress
I’ve had this problem (changing the order on those darn categories pages) from day one since working with WordPress and it really bugged me when I’d had to resort to plugins to solve the problem. Basically, when you select different categories in WordPress the post order and category is set in a query which you [...]
