6 Tips to Speed Up jQuery
As it stands, jQuery is an amazingly efficient JavaScript framework, but there are a few things that you can do when creating your code that will end up slowing it down significantly. I’ve noticed that a few small changes to my standard way of using jQuery have made my code run a lot faster. 1. […]
Excluding Pages from WordPress Search
When people visit my site and do a search, I assume they’re looking for results within my posts and not in any of my static pages. Too bad WordPress automatically searches through both. In order to exclude pages from the WordPress search, you need to add a small piece of code to the functions.php file. […]
A Complete Re-Design
Lately, I’ve been feeling bavotasan.com was looking a little too, how do you say, plain and boring. It was truly in dire need of a complete makeover but I couldn’t think of what direction to take it in. So instead of re-designing it myself, I thought it would be a good idea to enlist the […]
And the Winner is…
For the month of June, I held a contest where anyone who purchased one of my Premium themes had their name entered for a chance to win a 16GB Wi-Fi iPad. Yesterday a winner was selected and contacted. Thankfully, he got back to me and confirmed everything. So now I can announce that Raubi Perilli […]
Creating a Scrolling Back to Top Button with jQuery
If you take a look way, way, way down at the bottom of this page, you will see a Back to Top button that scrolls the whole page until it reaches to top. It is a pretty simple effect to add to your site and looks a hundred-times cooler than just using your typical anchor […]
Using get_theme_data() when Developing a Custom Theme for WordPress
If you are building a custom theme that you would like to add to the WordPress directory or start to sell online somewhere, a great function that can help you out is get_theme_data(). What exactly does it do? It gathers all the theme information that you were supposed to add to the style.css file so […]
Feed Me, Seymour 1.2
I have just updated Feed Me, Seymour for WordPress 3.0 and many of its new features. I have also cleaned up the code and added the Arturo Theme Engine v2.0 so that the admin interface works a whole lot better. Version 1.2 is currently only available on this site. Just click the download button below.
WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious” Officially Released
It is finally here. Good thing I just released an update to Magazine Premium to take advantage of all the cool new features in WP 3.0. What features, you say? Take a look at some of my recent posts to read about a few of them. You can even test some of them out for […]
Defining a Constant with PHP
Defining a constant in PHP can come in handy when working with a value that will be used throughout your script. What is a constant exactly? According to PHP.net, “A constant is an identifier (name) for a simple value“. One important thing you need to know is that, like its name states, a constant cannot […]
Magazine Basic v2.6 WordPress Theme
Since I have been doing all this talking about WordPress 3.0, I thought it only fitting to start incorporating some if its features into my themes. The first theme to get the upgrade is Magazine Basic. Version 2.6 also has the Arturo Theme Engine v2.0 installed to give a smoother experience while configuring the theme […]