WordPress Plugin Toolbox

July 8th, 2010Plugins, Tutorials, Wordpress, WordPress Tutorials0 comments

WordPress puts a lot of really useful utilities in the plugin developer’s toolbox. I’m going to go through a few of them here.

These are especially useful if you’re just beginning WordPress plugin development.
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WordPress Font Uploader Plugin

June 23rd, 2010Featured, Plugins, Wordpress198 comments

This plugin lets you upload your own font files and apply them to any element of your website without requiring a knowledge of html or css.
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Stellar WordPress Portfolio Control with Custom Post / Meta Types

June 21st, 2010PHP, Tutorials, Wordpress, WordPress Tutorials53 comments

Wordpress 3.0 has introduced a lot of very powerful new features into the theme developer’s toolbox. The most exciting of these is probably the addition of custom post / meta types.
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Sugar Glider – Free WordPress Theme

June 9th, 2010Featured, Freebies, Themes32 comments

Sugar Glider is a simple single-page-site wordpress theme with a number of spectacular features.
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WordPress CMS Tips and Tricks – Part 3

May 19th, 2010PHP, Tutorials, Wordpress, WordPress Tutorials5 comments

As in the first two posts of this series, WordPress CMS Tips and WordPress CMS Tips – Part 2, I will be covering a variety of tips and tricks for transforming a regular WordPress installation into a full-blown content management system.
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Quick Tip: Remove right margin from column post layout with php

May 8th, 2010CSS, Design, PHP, Tutorials, Wordpress, WordPress Tutorials3 comments

One of the most popular layout styles right now is the Three Column grid, particularly for News-like websites.

Well, one of the main problems coders will run into when creating the layout with CSS is how to make all the columns fit correctly, while retaining the correct margins.
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Better WordPress Post Excerpt – Revamped

April 22nd, 2010Tutorials, Wordpress, WordPress Tutorials14 comments

My earlier post Better WordPress Post Excerpt talked about a way to improve upon the default wordpress post excerpt by utilizing a plugin called the Excerpt Rereloaded. Luca Biagini wrote a great plugin that is all well and good for most people, but what about theme developers that want to include better excerpt functionality in their theme without depending on plugins? Continue Reading

Building Blocks to get more features in 2.0

April 20th, 2010Themes, Wordpress5 comments

Building Blocks is a free wordpress theme template I created to be used as a starting point for custom theme development.
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WordPress Designs of the Week 04-09-10

April 9th, 2010Design, Wordpress0 comments

A nice selection of sites running WordPress for your inspiration.

Sprout Venture

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WordPress CMS Tips – Part 2

April 6th, 2010Tutorials, Wordpress, WordPress Tutorials1 comment

This is a continuation of my previous post, WordPress CMS Tips, that is geared towards developers and non-developers alike wishing to utilize WordPress as a Content Management System.

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Better WordPress Post Excerpt

March 21st, 2010PHP, Tutorials, Wordpress, WordPress Tutorials1 comment

While working on a site for a client, I was struggling with how best to control the display of recent posts using the_excerpt();, especially when I wanted one section on a page to display the excerpt in this way, and another section on the same page to display them in that way.
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WordPress CMS Tips

March 12th, 2010PHP, Tutorials, Wordpress, WordPress Tutorials6 comments

After utilizing WordPress as a Content Management System for many different websites, including PestaRoo.com and Nebraska Christian Music Festival, I have found what I believe to  be some of the best techniques. Continue Reading