New Video Demonstrations in the Support Forum
I put together some video demonstrations in the Support Forum to get people ready for the release of Magazine Premium. If all goes as planned, MP will be out tomorrow (fingers crossed). I’m going to do my best to release new video demos as often as possible to help users adapt to the new features […]
Embedding Fonts in your Web Site with CSS and @font-face
One of the winners of a free copy of Magazine Premium (see this article) suggested implementing @font-face kits to the theme. I had read about @font-face but never actually attempted to use it before. I did a bit more research and finally figured it out. Now 10 @font-face kits are available with Magazine Premium and […]
Making Cookies with PHP
I’ve been going nuts over the past month trying to complete a project for a large retail store and it seems like every new request they make requires me to learn something new about PHP. Coding challenges are always great because they lead you to discover new ways to take advantage of what your coding […]
Magazine Premium is Ready and I Want to Give Away 5 Copies
I’m almost finished Magazine Premium and I thought it would be a good idea to open up a discussion to see what features people would like to see available. Now don’t go crazy, and please don’t repeat the same requests. I’ll take the top 5 best requests (that aren’t a part of the theme already) […]
Creating a jQuery Plugin to Increase Font Size
I have been spending a bit of time lately figuring out how to create my own plugins for jQuery. It doesn’t take much to accomplish and I thought it would be a good idea to put together a small tutorial to show everyone just how easy it can be. For this example, I will create […]
Find the Category ID using the Category Slug in WordPress
This is a quick little piece of code that I have been using a lot lately. I needed to get the category ID but all I had to work with was the category slug. Luckily WordPress has a neat little function called get_term_by() which makes it super easy. The function can be used to get […]
A Clever and Safe Way to Display your Email Address
There are many reason why you shouldn’t place your email address on a Web page; the number one being spambots. There are tons a spambots running around the Web looking for that “@” symbol so that they can bombard you with as much spam as possible.
WordPress 2.9 is Out!
I haven’t had a chance to go through WordPress 2.9 and figure out all the improvements just yet, but I am excited to do so. A few items they have been boasting about are a global undo/”trash” feature, a built-in image editor, a batch plugin update/compatibility checking and easier video embeds.
Simple Voting for WordPress with PHP and jQuery
This tutorial is no longer up-to-date. Please check out A Better Voting System for WordPress for a more secure and efficient approach. I needed to create a simple way for site members to vote on a post and the few scripts I found didn’t really work how I needed them to. So I decided to […]
Adding Extra Fields to the WordPress User Profile
By default WordPress offers some great options. Whenever a member joins, they have the ability to add more information about themselves, such as a Web site URL, a short bio and their AIM. You might require a bit more info from your members and creating extra fields in the user profile is pretty straightforward.