Jun
16
2011
Simple Pagination for WordPress
Most sites use some sort of pagination to allow you to navigate through to their older posts. If you install WordPress and use TwentyTen, you will see the “Older...
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Jun
07
2011
Three Slideshows for Arturo
When I recently released version 1.0.1 of Arturo, I added a slideshow function that allows you to display featured posts at the top of your home page. There are...
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May
17
2011
jQuery to Resize Videos
When WordPress introduced post formats in version 3.1, I decided to make sure all of my themes were able to display each one. The only issue I encountered was...
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May
11
2011
The New Columns Function in Arturo
I have just release the latest update to my WordPress theme framework Arturo. I have added many new features but one of the most interesting one is the new...
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May
02
2011
Style a Select Box Using Only CSS
I often have to use a select box when I’m putting together a custom form that requires a drop down list. It took me a while to figure out...
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Apr
23
2011
is_child() Conditional Function for WordPress
I wrote a little function a while back to Check if a Page is a Child of Another Page in WordPress called is_child(). It used the page ID to...
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Apr
13
2011
Helpful Page Functions for WordPress
Over the past month I have been working on a large project that has taken up a lot of my time, but I wanted to quickly share two small...
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Apr
04
2011
Access Another Database in WordPress
When accessing the database in WordPress, you need to use the global variable $wpdb. This will take the constants you set in wp-config.php to connect to your database and...
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Mar
30
2011
Enqueueing a Script After wp_head()
I was working on a feature for Arturo to add (or enqueue) a script only if a certain function was used on a page. The problem was, that you...
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Mar
25
2011
Post to a URL Using cURL and PHP
A client needed me to write a script that would collect information from their database and post it to a specific URL, just like it was being submitted by...
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