Recent Posts Tagged With 'wordpress'

• Jazzing Up Yoast’s Sociable WordPress Plugin to Spur More Sharing

  Posted on Wednesday March 18th, 2009 at 14:57 in wordpress, social, wordpress plugins, sharing, bookmarking, sociable, joost de valk, yoast

  Why are social bookmark icons so tiny? Dimmed? Let's jazz up the Yoast Sociable WordPress plugin, and make loud, in-your-face calls to action. Instructions and guidelines for swapping in larger-sized images sets and some CSS basics to induce readers ...

• How to remove inline Recent Comments style from your WordPress Theme

  Posted on Sunday March 15th, 2009 at 16:30 in wordpress, recent comments, remove_filter, functions.php, add_filter, wordpress function, inline style

  Have you found an inline style in your Html head section for Recent Comments? Wonder where it came from? More importantly, do you want to know how to get rid of it? It is simple to do by writing a WordPress filter to remove a filter. Oh, joy!...

• Writing a Wordpress Function: breadcrumbs()

  Posted on Wednesday March 4th, 2009 at 11:00 in php, SEO, wordpress, wordpress theme, template tags, breadcrumbs, functions.php, wordpress functions, function name prefix, helper functions, html helpers, template functions

  Let's write a function for breadcrumbs that can be easily added to your Wordpress themes. Wordpress functions are preferable over the hundreds of plugins that are available -- to me anyway....

• Formatting Sample Code Snippets in Wordpress

  Posted on Saturday February 28th, 2009 at 12:34 in wordpress, wordpress plugins, sample code formatting

  Displaying code snippets in Wordpress can be a chore. Fortunately there are several plugins to choose from. My plugin of choice is Scott Reilly's Preserve Code Formatting which prevents modification by WordPress and other plugins while retaining orig...

• 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....

• The Building of a Blog

  Posted on Tuesday February 24th, 2009 at 07:40 in wordpress, wordpress plugins, wordpress theme, wordpress settings, webstractive theme

  Travel with me through the inner workings of Wordpress during my installation and theme creation. What I did or did not do, and why. From Wordpress plugins to settings, it is all here....