WordPress Backup to Dropbox Plugin
Having a backup strategy is a definite must for any website, whether it’s for a small blog or a big commercial site. Think about the number of hours that you…
Category: Tutorials
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 Post”…
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 no…
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 with…
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 arturo_columns()…
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 how…
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 return…
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 functions…
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 retrieve…
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 can’t…