One of the most common requests in modern WordPress themes is the addition of a featured posts or featured image rotator. This is often a feature that users think makes a theme “premium”. Once you break down the code required, it is actually much easier than it seems. View Demo | Download Files Also when [...]
Over the past year it has become trendy to build theme options pages crammed full of every possible setting. While it is well intentioned, I don’t think it is the best direction to take themes. In software design we always say that adding a preference should be your last resort. First you should try to [...]
These days every site must have a content management system (CMS), or else it will very soon be outdated. Try selling a site to a client and then telling them they can’t actually update any of the content or photos themselves, somehow I don’t think they will be very happy. Now in searching for a [...]
Today we are going to answer a common question regarding WordPress navigation. How to create simple drop down menus that work across browsers. If you are at all familiar with the web standards approach, then you have probably heard of Suckerfish Drop Downs. http://htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/dropdowns/ Integrating this is mostly CSS, but here is the WordPress code [...]
1. The Concept Goal: To make a tabbed slider that displays WordPress posts from a specific category in an easy to use format. Making it simple to edit/delete posts, from the WordPress back-end, and still have a great, unique front-end result. To start we are using the Coda-Slider from Niall Doherty. http://www.ndoherty.com/demos/coda-slider/1.1.1/#1 Start by downloading [...]
