Archive for February, 2010
February 26th, 2010
A few weeks ago I ran into a problem while styling some elements in a wordpress plugin. The source of problem was that the plugin author had used inline styles to control the elements. This prevented my user-defined styles from applying. Rather than manually going into the plugin source and removing the styles (any modifications would be over ridden if I ever updated the plugin), I found a solution posted by Natale Jost.
It's really simple.
Your original style looks something like:
div ...
Tags: CSS
Posted in Tutorials, Wordpress | No Comments »
February 16th, 2010
Wordpress Conditional Tags are an extremely useful tool that may seem scary to the beginner, but are really quite simple.
Why use them?
They aide in creating simpler themes with fewer template / style files
Make your wordpress run faster as they can cut down on the number of files accessed
Create an easy way to manage dynamic style elements
Where to use them
index.php
page.php
header.php
anything.php
How to use them
Probably the simplest and most common usage of conditional tags is for controlling whether a certain element (for example, ...
Tags: cms, conditional tags, Wordpress
Posted in Tutorials, Wordpress, php | No Comments »
February 10th, 2010
Pikachoose - http://pikachoose.com/ - is a jquery gallery plugin provides a very smooth, attractive gallery system. There is only one problem: it's static and requires manuel html editing to add or remove images.
This tutorial will walk you through how to implement Pikachoose in a wordpress blog and make it dynamic by utilizing individual wordpress posts for gallery thumbnails.
1 - Get the Gallery
The Pikachoose gallery can be downloaded from the plugin's homepage http://pikachoose.com/. Get the latest version and extract the archive to ...
Tags: gallery, jquery, Wordpress
Posted in Tutorials | 5 Comments »
February 1st, 2010
I really love it when people take the time to design beautiful headers for their sites. Here are 11 that I find stunning.
Cats Who Code
Design Informer
Ecoki
Sherier Designs
Simple Bits
Soh Tanaka
The Pixel
Think Design
Tutorial 9
Viget / Extend
Work Awesome
Tags: Design
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