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Professional WordPress Plugin Development review

It’s been a while since I’ve reviewed books on this blog and I think it’s about time to start doing that again. And I couldn’t have chosen a better book to start with then “Professional WordPress Plugin Development” written by Brad Williams, Ozh Richard and Justin Tadlock. This is the book I’ve been waiting for [...]
By | Published: March 22, 2011 | Posted in Book Review, General, Recomended Reading, Wordpress | Tagged , , , , | 3 Comments

Cozy Child Theme

This elegant WordPress theme started as a custom project but ended up as a Child Theme for the Thematic Framework. It’s a warm design that makes you feel comfortable.
By | Published: February 22, 2011 | Posted in Recomended Reading, Thematic, Theme Design | Tagged , , | 1 Comment

Thematic PHP constants

With Thematic 0.9.7.7 there are a couple of changes made to the way it works. One of those changes was the inclusion of a few constants, that based on their value lets you chose whether you want the default WordPress functionality or the more powerful (and complex) Thematic functionality. I’m talking here about whether you [...]
By | Published: January 27, 2011 | Posted in Thematic, Wordpress | Leave a comment

All Child Themes got updated

While a bit late, we finally managed to get all Child Themes that are free for download updated to work with the latest Thematic (# Version: 0.9.7.7). Early Morning, Street and Byty now make use of the WordPress 3.0 menu system, while Commune now makes use of the Featured thumbnail image that comes with WordPress [...]
By | Published: November 17, 2010 | Posted in Thematic, Wordpress | Tagged , | 2 Comments

WordPress pieces of code of the month

I found two pieces of code for WordPress that might come in handy from time to time. Custom Post Types pagination for the homepage It appears there’s a bug in WP 3.0 with the pagination on the homepage for custom post types. When we create an archive page for a custom post type we make [...]
By | Published: September 9, 2010 | Posted in Wordpress | Tagged , , | 2 Comments

Detect if javascript is enabled in php and remove the TypeKit flicker

Experimenting with TypeKit I found the flicker really annoying. It dose feature loading events that add .wf-loading, .wf-active and .wf-inactive classes to the HTML tag but there still is at least a one second delay before they get appended so you still see the page with the flicker if you want to hide the content [...]
By | Published: September 3, 2010 | Posted in Javascript | Tagged , , | 2 Comments

wp_nav_menu shortcode

Along with WordPress 3.0 we now have access to the really useful wp_nav_menu functionality. We can now create our own menus without resulting to several plugins or tricks. Another cool thing we can do with this new menu is build the sitemap. I was in need the other day of a plugin that would generate [...]
By | Published: June 28, 2010 | Posted in General, Wordpress | Tagged , | 14 Comments

Charisma, Free Genesis Child Theme

Charisma is a free Genesis child theme that will work perfectly for your WordPress personal blog. When I started designing Charisma I had in mind an elegant, simple, well structured theme which highlights the content and gives the user a pleasurable reading experience.
By | Published: June 4, 2010 | Posted in Recomended Reading, Theme Design, Wordpress | Tagged , , , , | 15 Comments

Thematic Tabbed Widgets

Tabbed widgets for WordPress themes have been around since WordPress it self. They are a perfect way to save on vertical space and add a bit of interaction with the users. There are two classic ways of implementing the tabbed widgets. Creating a hard coded widget and using the jQuery Cycle plugin. This means you [...]
By | Published: May 2, 2010 | Posted in Thematic, Wordpress | Tagged , , , | 18 Comments