What is it, you ask? Karten is a WordPress plugin to plot Instagram photos on a Google Maps map. The plugin will go find all geo-tagged Instagram photos relating to desired user(s), hashtag, date range, start/end date, and/or maximum number of posts and plot them on a Google Map. Let’s see it in action: [karten… More
This weekend, 16 “Favoriteers” descended on WordCamp Orange County for 2 days of WordPress speeches, workshops, networking, and general camaraderie. In fact, two Favoriteers, Jeff and Brandon, teamed up with a few other WordPress locals to put on the event. As a result, I can safely say that this WordCamp was by far my favorite;… More
I’ll be attending WordCamp Orange County (Fifth Anniversary Edition) this year (June 7-8). They just released the schedule and here are the talks I’ll likely be attending: Saturday, June 7 Cain & Obenland In the Morning UX for WordPress Platforms Enterprise WordPress – Performance, Scalability & Redundancy WordPress Community: Choose Your Own Adventure Designing a… More
I’m pleased to announce the relaunch of craigfreeman.net. This marks the site’s third incarnation on this domain, though it previously existed on freemanc.com. I changed domains in 2009 when I started looking for work and needed to “rebrand.” I’m proud to have incorporated the techniques and skills I’ve picked up over the last year while… More
Clients have been asking for custom amount of posts per page in certain categories. To do this, I have to create a new category template in the theme. For the ‘testimonials’ category, I created a file in my theme directory named category-testimonials.php. The following code is meat of this page’s content: <?php $paged = (get_query_var(‘paged’))… More
WordPress allows you to set a featured image for a post or a page. You can call this featured image (thumbnail) in the loop, but you are restricted to how the thumbnail is sized. The options range from the default thumbnail size (150×150), but this cuts off part of the image. The rest of the… More
The main navigation is basically a list of Pages in WordPress. In order to display a custom subtitle associated with each individual Page, I created a new custom field, called ‘Subtitle’, and assigned a value to it on each Page. The custom field is optional, and I restricted the navigation to only display parent Pages.… More
