I am in the process of registering and enqueuing my JavaScript files properly within WordPress, however jQuery needs some love for this to work properly. Basically, I have a scripts.js file that I use to add JavaScript enhancements in my themes. This usually includes a document.ready() function: $(document).ready(function() { … }); If my scripts.js only… More
I recently decided to tackle a problem that had been bothering me in regards to the cforms II WordPress plugin, by Delicious Days. cforms is a hefty plugin that makes web form creation, administration, and tracking fairly easy. It has some annoyances, but for the most part, it does it’s job well. I was using… 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
While following Ralph Whitbeck on Twitter, I learned of a StackOverflow-sponsored dev conference series. Ralph was scheduled to present the jQuery talk at the Toronto DevDay, but by the time I learned of it, tickets were sold out. Using some of my connections, I was able to fly out to Seattle for their DevDay on… More
Tomer and I spent a few all-nighters studying and writing papers. Won’t miss days like this.
Remember Friendfeed? Probably not.. It never really went anywhere. It basically took all your social site feeds, like Flickr uploads, blog updates, Youtube favorites, LinkedIn updates, etc, and made them into one big feed for your friends to see. Lovely. I’m not sure how long Facebook has been doing it, but I found out tonight… More
