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10 Useful Code Snippets For Your WordPress Theme Functions.php File

May 16th, 2010 - 21:11:18

I’m working with a lot of WordPress based sites and there are some code snippets which I frequently use. I want to share them with you. 1. Prevent Direct File Access # No direct file load if (!empty($_SERVER[’SCRIPT_FILENAME’]) && ‘functions.php’ … Read post

Re-numbering With jQuery

August 20th, 2009 - 17:29:13

I needed this to do a quick re-numbering of featured items in a slider on the homepage because I was always changing the PHP code and the numbering got messed up. Code to do a quick re-numbering of ‘a span’ … Read post

Tip: Exclude Categories From Archive In WordPress

August 20th, 2009 - 15:53:13

While working on a recent project, I came across a task: exclude certain categories from the archive page. I went the usual way to the WordPress codex -> query_posts and thought the following would do it: 1 2 3 4 … Read post

Adding Facebook Connect to your WordPress Blog

August 9th, 2009 - 17:45:08

Today I added ‘Facebook Connect‘ to my blog and I was running into two or three caveats. I want to share my trial-and-error experience from today with you. First, I downloaded the WP-FBConnect plugin, installed & activated it in the … Read post

Include WordPress Author Biographical Info In Posts

July 29th, 2009 - 15:17:46

In addition to this and this post, I thought this post may be useful for you as well. It describes how you can add the ‘Biographical Info’ to your posts.

Dynamic form elements & the jQuery validation plugin

April 15th, 2009 - 00:50:57

I recently run into a problem where I had to validate a form with dynamic fields. I am impressed of the jQuery Validation plugin but I had no clue on how to achieve this as the documentation does not have … Read post

Guest Posts And the_author() In Your WordPress Blog

August 18th, 2008 - 20:24:12

As you may have seen I have a guest post on this blog written by Matt from phuketvogue.com. Since I am the only registered writer/author on this site, all posts are marked as ‘written by Toxane’ or something similar. I … Read post

WordPress, My Gravatar and the Mystery Man

August 9th, 2008 - 12:04:34

I just had a problem with my own gravatar not showing up on my own site for the comments I wrote. First I thought that clearing the browser cache would solve everything. I was wrong. After clearing the cache, deleting … Read post

PayPal donation form with CSS and jQuery for WordPress

August 3rd, 2008 - 12:00:26

Learn how to create a PayPal donation form, beautify it with a little bit CSS and validate the input with jQuery. You can also integrate the form into WordPress as a page template or use it on any other static HTML page. Read post

Desktop Blogging Tools Reviewed

August 2nd, 2008 - 14:01:01

Just a quick post to let you know that Glen over at Smashing Magazine has written a cool review of 15 desktop blogging tools.