Published on February 7, 2010 in Wordpress · (Reply)
In this text I’ll present a little snippet  which allows to dynamically asign h1/h2 tags to the title of a WordPress blog, depending on the type of page. The code is very simple and intuitive and makes use of conditional tags. A story about headings Once upon a time, when I started blogging, there was a strong [...]
Published on June 4, 2009 in Wordpress · 1 comment
This post is a mere draft. For the last couple of hours I’ve been reading some of the wp 2.8 beta 2 fliles and I finally decided to make a list of the features that are bound blow theme authors’ minds. 1. Theme installtion from within the admin area The analogue feature was available for plugins since [...]
Published on May 23, 2009 in Wordpress · 1 comment
As you know, Adsense ads perform best when they’re embeded in the main content. But, as you also know, the content of a WordPress blog is displayed by a tiny template tag, i.e. the_content(). So, theoretically, you don’t have many options when it comes to deciding where the ad will appear. Using the default code [...]
Published on April 30, 2009 in Wordpress · 2 comments
During the last few weeks, I’ve received lots of emails containig a recurrent question about changing the colors of the themes I created. In the beginning I thought it was fun to reply to those emails, but I soon relized that my squeduled tasks were weeping sad and lonely in their blank documents. So I [...]
Published on March 23, 2009 in Wordpress · 2 comments
This is the easiest trick in the book. Unfortunately, theme authors don’t always pay attention to such minor details, and it comes to you to solve the problems of a design that doesn’t look exactly like the demo site. So, to help you fix such issues, I compiled a reference list on WordPress generated ids [...]
Published on February 17, 2009 in Wordpress · 1 comment
During the last year(s), the main interest in the WordPress comunity was undoubtly the emulation of magazine websites; the previously blogging platform became a full CMS, and theme authors have become preocupied in turning the classic blog layout into a magazine-like design. A new era of theme development was born.
Published on January 11, 2009 in Wordpress · 2 comments
One of the biggest challenges one has to face when deciding to pass from the transitional xhtml validation to the strict one is certainly the recalcitrant searchform script. In this text, I present you a simple piece of code that will strict validate. The most common searchform script Currently, the most common searchform script is this one: <form [...]