Working on a recent project I had to made use of ‘multiple column lists’, based on the article ‘CSS Swag: Multi-Column Lists‘ at A List Apart. For more control over the items in the list, I wanted to use the WordPress custom menus. This is the final result:
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.
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.
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:
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 any code on this included. A few searches on in the WWW didn’t bring the right results, but I eventually found some snippet in the Google Groups:
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 thought it would be just fair for the guest writer, to mark these posts with the corresponding author name and a link back to the author’s site.
Mystery Man - the default Gravatar
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.
Yesterday I got an email from Jamie asking me how I made my PayPal donation form. Here’s how I did it.
Loads of good free WordPress Themes are out there. And the most of them don’t make use (or at least no good use) of the ‘functions.php‘ file. This is how the WordPress Codex describes it: