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Using jQuery for a Simple Animated Fade Effect

Posted on March 15, 2010  |  Category: Tutorials

I know I have already done a fade effect between two images with jQuery, but here is a quick little piece of code that will just add a nice animated fade effect to single images. Whenever a person hovers over an image, we will use jQuery to lower the opacity to make it appear lighter. Easy and not that impressive but still pretty cool.

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Creating a Mouseover Fade Effect with jQuery

Posted on August 5, 2009  |  Category: Tutorials

My last little jQuery tutorial was an alternative to using CSS to create an image change on a mouseover. Now I want to take that one step further and add a fade effect. For my example, I am going to make a black and white image fade into a color image. To achieve this effect I am going to introduce the animate function. There are tons of possibilities in regards to jQuery’s animate function, but for this tutorial, I’m going to keep it simple by just using it to do one thing.

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How to Add Nested Comments to Your WordPress Theme

Posted on March 2, 2009  |  Category: Tutorials

When WordPress 2.7 came out, there were a lot of new features, most of which probably passed by under your radar. I know I missed a bunch and thankfully, I am starting to notice how much more powerful WordPress has become. I had someone request making my Magazine Basic theme function with nested comments and that started me on researching just how this new WP feature worked. It ended up being a harder nut to crack than I first thought, but crack it I did (though I probably spend way too much time on it).

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Excerpt or Content Word Limit in WordPress: Redux

Posted on February 16, 2009  |  Category: Tutorials

This is just a revamp of a function I wrote a while back to add the ability to limit the number of words displayed when you call the excerpt or content. As it stands, the max number of words for the excerpt is 55. There is a new function with WP 2.9 to increase this number. Check out Quick & Easy Excerpt Mods Coming in WordPress 2.9 for more on that subject.

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Adding Social Bookmarking Links to WordPress

Posted on December 15, 2008  |  Category: Tutorials

There are plugins that do this but once again, I’m a code junky and I love being able to go in and manipulate the code to get what I want. I just recently added some social bookmarking links at the top of this site, as you can see.

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