That was the bomb shell dropped yesterday on the WordPress.com blog. Windows Live, which until yesterday was providing blogging to its users through Spaces, is going to use WordPress.com the new default blogging platform. Yeah, pretty big new. Specially when you consider the 30 Million user currently on Live Spaces that will have the opportunity [...]
If you don’t know what Modal box is referring to, think about Lightbox. That’s it, the ‘new way’ (rather old now) of displaying pop-up boxes. Their are many scripts to add modal boxes to your content. Some very fancy, with loads of options and effects, others very simple and light. I needed to display Google [...]
It is this time of the year again which everyone that goes on one of the Envato market place like: birthday time. And because Envato is not like any other company, when it is their birthday, they give presents away. Like last year, they have released a new bundle including 50 files, picked from the [...]
WooThemes have just started a new fantastic promotion today. Until the 30th of June you can pick any 5 themes for the price of one! And all yearly subscriptions also have a 50% discount. Pretty amazing when you consider the quality of the themes those guys are doing. Don’t wait, go on the site now: [...]
Filter in WordPress are a joy and certainly what make the framework so flexible. Like the last post on enabling menu support, this is just a quick tips on two filters introduced in WordPress 2.8 and 2.9. excerpt_length The name says it all, it allowd you to change the length of the excerpt displayed. The [...]
If you are viewing this site using your smartphone or iPad/iPod you will notice that the design has changed. We have installed a new plugin on the site today that displays a special theme for mobile browsers. The plugin is called WPtouch and is freely available from the WordPress plugin repository here. it comes with [...]
Note: Updated with the latest way of doing nav menus, uses register_nav_menus instead of add_theme_support You may be aware that a new major version of WordPress is coming out soon. Version 3.0 will bring some features like a new menu builder. The menu builder will allow you to create a menu from any categories, pages [...]
The little details is a new category about what tiny details can make a good or just average design. Details give depth to a website in ways that the user does not always see but feel nonetheless. Today’s “little details” will focus on the date display. Particularly present on blog, the date is often left [...]
WooThemes, the fantastic premium WordPress theme club has just released something they call “The Playground“. It basically allows you to try any of their themes, front end AND back end. This is a very good move from their part we think has new potential buyer will be able to try out the theme inside out [...]
Today we are going to look at getting the content of a post using ajax and then display it in a popup box. The popup part is actually the easiest part, thanks to the fantastic Simple Modal plugin for jQuery written by Eric Martin. So the basics here are: we call a page using ajax, [...]
WordPress 2.9 is coming up in the next few weeks and it packed full of new features. Some will not really concern you, some will make your life ten times easier. Out of the lot I think the crop tool for images is my favorite closely followed by the category template support.
The navigation on a website is of course one of the most important part of the design. The user need to understand how to explore your site at first glance otherwise he will probably get frustrated and live. Some sites add a few words to each link to explain what the page linked is about. [...]
Javascript sliders are not a new trend as such but they seem to be the current reference when it comes to portfolios and showcases. It is especially interesting to see how they are implemented in a WordPress environment so I have shortlisted a few WordPress powered sites that uses javascript sliders in one way or [...]
A content table is what you can use in some big and small documents to reference all the titles so as to give quick access to certain part of the document. You see that often on FAQs pages for example or other long page where inner navigation is needed. The point here is to automate [...]