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Undocumented Wordpress Query Function: wp_reset_query()

Posted on Thursday February 26th, 2009 at 12:07 in wordpress, code, widgets, sidebar, wordpress theme, recent entries, wordpress functions, is_home, is_front_page(), query_posts(), wp_reset_query()

Creating a conditional sidebar widget in Wordpress turned into an odyssey of discovery. How an obscure usage of query_posts will bork your is_home() conditional tags....
Is this thing on?

Posted on Monday February 23rd, 2009 at 10:45 in aside, webstractions, wordpress conversion, is_home, is_front

Just a quick post to announce the rebirth of the blog here at Webstractions. As mentioned in an old post, I am switching over from an FTP based Blogger account to Wordpress and that day finally came. The theme is a little bare right now. Lots of work...