Category Archives: Wordpress

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 | Also posted in Book Review, General, Recomended Reading | Tagged , , , , | 3 Comments

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 | Also posted in Thematic | 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 | Also posted in Thematic | Tagged , | 2 Comments

QandaPress, a Q&A platform based on WordPress

During the last couple of months we received several requests from our friends and clients, mainly professional bloggers, who were permanently seeking solutions to expand their blog audience. They wanted a tool to help them grow their reader base and make the content become more socially engaging. One of the things that got to our [...]
By | Published: November 15, 2010 | Also posted in Recomended Reading | Tagged , , , | 7 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

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 | Also posted in General | Tagged , | 14 Comments

The new Smarter and WordPress 3.0

As you all know, WordPress has made the 3.0 transition, which brings the long-awaited merge of MU and WordPress and a lot of new features to the table. Trying to keep up with the goodies we developed a new version of Smarter, which runs smooth on 3.0 and takes advantage of the new feature list. [...]
By | Published: June 24, 2010 | Also posted in General, Theme Design | Tagged , , , , , , , | 2 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 | Also posted in Recomended Reading, Theme Design | Tagged , , , , | 15 Comments