WordPress Snippets
October 12th, 2010 — No Comments
A collection of code snippets that will come in handy for you WordPress theme developers out there.
Read more...15 Stunning and Fresh Premium WordPress Portfolio Themes
January 19th, 2010 — 16 Comments
A benefit of building a portfolio using WordPress is you have the ability to use the powerful blog features alongside your portfolio. A blog discussing your work or more about your processes and inspiration will add to the personality and allow potential clients to get to know you more increasing the attractiveness of you as a web designer. WordPress can also act as a more than adequate CMS for displaying your portfolio work.
How to Create a Theme Development Environment for a Live WordPress Site
January 11th, 2010 — 72 Comments
Any good website owner knows that they need to be constantly looking at ways to improve their site even through small little tweaks. If you’re using WordPress you’ll notice that it isn’t easy to create a development version without creating a separate installation. Of course, you can make changes directly on a live WordPress site but that isn’t recommended for anything other than minor tweaks.
With the help of an excellent plugin for WordPress called Theme switch and preview, this tutorial will allow you to easily switch between the live site and development versions using two different themes on the same installation of WordPress. We’ll do this by creating a bar at the top of the page which will clearly show you if you’re viewing the live theme (what everyone else sees) or the development theme with a link to switch between the two.
While there may well be a Worpdress plugin that does everything below, it’s much more rewarding and satisfying to create your own solution.
Read more...7 Very Simple Tips and Tricks for getting More out of WordPress
August 27th, 2009 — 50 Comments
WordPress is a very powerful blogging and CMS tool but as with all content management systems it needs tweaking to meet certain needs. Here are seven things you can do to get more out of WordPress with very little effort.
Read more...Comments are Working Again
August 5th, 2009 — 2 Comments
Earlier today I realised that nobody was leaving any comments on the last few posts so something must have gone wrong or my writing got even worse overnight which is very possible!
Turns out that upon hitting the submit button, a blank page would appear and nothing would happen. I managed to recreate the bug on my local install of WordPress and discovered that there was something wrong with the database.
After spending far too long in phpmyadmin trying to figure it out, even with a developers help, we were stumped. The problem was obviously with the wp_comments table so I tried repairing it but no luck. Then I noticed I had the option to optimise the table. I had no idea what it does exactly but when can optimising anything be bad, right? Well, it did the trick.
Despite all the problems, I’ve picked up a couple of things about working with databases so it’s not all bad. Apologies for the inconvenience but everything is back to normal.
Comment away!
Read more...Add a Category and Page Specific Class to the Body Tag in WordPress
July 23rd, 2009 — 6 Comments
WordPress is a powerful CMS, especially for blogging but what if you want to style something on a single page and not affect anything on other pages? There isn’t built-in way to do this so we need to use the platform that WordPress runs on by writing some custom PHP.
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