Everyone once in a while I’ll find myself amidst some sort of code riddle. More often then not it’s due to a plugin conflict, a CSS selector gone rogue or in most cases some typo where I’m missing a closing bracket, parenthesis or something like that. Although sometimes totally maddening, it’s generally pretty easy to [...]
Category Archives: Tutorials
XML PARSING ERROR:
Ever got this message before and wondered WTF is going on? I did. Was working on a site on specified development URL only my client had access to. Implemented RSSfeeds for all the blog categories with the following in WordPress: Once approved, I copied it over to their live site. Only to be met with the [...]
Custom buddypress avatars
I’ve got a project over at www.mtbikenow.com that is powered by the buddypress framework. While technically a plugin developed for WordPress, it’s really a whole lot more robust than your typical plugin. That being said, default avatars (from any web application) are high on the list of bad site aesthetics. Really makes things look unfinished [...]
One post & omit category (s) in WordPress
There are a number of different way to do this. I’m sure there are plenty of folks more versed in PHP programming than I out there that could give you seven ways from Sunday to accomplish this. I’m a designer, not a programmer. Here’s my WordPress solution. I wanted my latest blog post to show [...]
Conditional Backgrounds in WordPress
Here’s the situation. You’re developing a WordPress theme. Maybe you’ve started with one of the tens of thousands of free templates available on the web or maybe you’ve started with one of the few bare bones themes like Starkers (my favorite because I hate dealing with other peoples code). You can find a great list [...]