Upon entering what I have jokingly referred to as my “semi-retirement” phase (read more on my personal blog), I will be shifting focus to personal projects once again. With that I am planning an upgrade to the Charlene theme to incorporate many of the refinements and improvements I have made in the framework I build …
Obsessed With Child Themes?
Skip the background get to the question. The obsession started towards the beginning of the year, I believe? I have been working with WordPress for quite some time now, years to be somewhat exact. I started by tearing apart Kubrick, then moved on to Sandbox, somewhere in there I used Starkers quite a bit. Just …
Been dabbling in WordPress 2.9
In my spare time, of which there is very little, I have been toying around with WordPress 2.9. One feature I am pretty excited for is the new image capabilities (primarily image editing and thumbnails). For one I think the new image editing capabilities will solve more problems for my clients than they will create, …
Going Overboard: WordPress Theme Options
I’ve seen this conversation pop up before, but at what point do theme options go overboard and become more confusing than helpful? Don’t get me wrong, I am all for adding options and overall making it easier for the end user to control the output of a theme, but I recently came across a theme …
WordPress: Image Issues After Site Transfer
Problem: After site transfer either within your current hosting account or to a new hosting account, clients will often contact with image issues. For example they attempt to upload and image via the post image upload. While it seems to upload as normal, the small screen shot which would normally be visible (see shot below) …
First Experiences with Gravity Forms
Ahh the new Gravity Forms, WordPress form management plugin. To reinforce the fact that this is an impartial review I will point out that I have long been an advocate and user of the ddformailer plugin by Dagon Design, in fact you can see it running on my contact pages. While I have only scratched …
Offset Posts Based on Post Per Page Setting
I recently ran into a situation when developing a new WordPress theme in which I need to offset a second column of posts by the number in the main posts column. This second column is to be a column of short snippets, older posts if you will. Obviously the situation at hand is quite simple, …
Cleaning Up the Way My Themes Register Sidebars
With a bit of down time I have been working feverishly to clean up my framework, focusing on speed, code etc. During the process I got to thinking about the way the theme registers it’s sidebars so I dug in and did a little research. Having research quite a bit I stumbled on this short …
Adding Theme Options To WordPress Child Themes
Please note: the following is “experimental”, although it has been tested and seems to be working, it was tested only briefly. This post is more to share the idea and see if I can’t get feedback to improve or reformat the idea. I am sure there is a good chance something like this has been …