Speeding up WordPress has just got easier; using PHP’s if statements you can only load the stuff you need. When building ShiftNews, one thing we were always vary wary of was the effect on load time stuff would have. That meant sprites, not making too many database calls, that kind of thing. And then Alex C [...]
February 16, 2010
One of the beautiful things about Wordpress is the high level of flexibility and input you as a designer can have, you can theme it yourself, hack it up and even create your own plugins. Today we are covering a few tutorials which will help you create your first Wordpress plugin. As you may know the [...]
February 16, 2010
WordPress version 2.9 introduced the function of Post Thumbnail. We wrote about this feature in this post and here and also in many other blogs. I find it an advantage, if the overview of articles and pages also provides the associated thumbnail. Therefore, I would like to introduce a small code snippet that makes just [...]
February 16, 2010
WordPress out of the box comes SEO friendly, however there are many tweaks you can make to further optimize it for search engines. We recently covered 10 important tips to optimize wordpress for search engines, however this post will go more in-depth and offering further optimization tips.Here are a number of advanced [...]
February 12, 2010
Working on a new theme for the next Digging into WordPress book update, I found myself really getting into the whole “widgetizing” thing. Widgets enable non-technical users to customize your theme according to their specific layout needs, and with so many different widgets available, the possibilities are endless. You may have thought about widgets as [...]
February 12, 2010
I’m back into the WordPress theme design. Check out my latest release — the Notepad theme. Inspired by the iPhone’s Notes app, Notepad is a modern theme with a subtle touch of the sketchy and texturized background. The theme is widget compatible with threaded & paged comments, social media buttons, and multi-level dropdown menus. It [...]
February 10, 2010
Recently I needed to set up WordPress to change the background colour of the page with each parent category. After a bit of Googleing, it appeared no-one had an easy answer, so I turned to my good friend the if statement. I thought I’d combine an if statement with the WordPress template tag IS_CATEGORY. Soon [...]
February 10, 2010
WordPress is a excellent platform for placing lots of images in your blog. In WordPress presenting lots of images in a single post is not ideal. They can take up lots of space and the reader will be forced to do a lot of vertical scrolling to view the entire post. A better approach is to [...]
February 10, 2010
Just paste the following code anywhere on WordPress theme files. If you want to test, I recommend pasting it in your functions.php file.That’s all you have to do. Once executed, this code will insert a new post into WordPress database. via WordPress tip: Insert posts programmatically.
February 9, 2010
From its first glimpse and features, you can say that Kelontong is a darker, Mac-style AppCloud version. But even if you have AppCloud, using this theme for your online store will do you no harm. We have added a few more powerful features to it. We have just released the most awaited Kelontong WordPress e-commerce theme. [...]
February 16, 2010
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