The folks over at PerfectSurf.de have published a tutorial which goes into detail on how you can create your own personal slideshow to appear on the frontpage of your WordPress powered site. This slideshow feature has been seen in numerous premium themes as of late and now you can create one for yourself via this tutorial. A slideshow is great for showcasing images within a gallery or showing off images related to top news items on your blog. The tutorial is not meant for beginners, but those of you who understand terms such as The Loop, excerpt and permalink, you should be fine. There are some caveats to this process which are outlined in the requirements: There are many ways of embedding slideshows to your website. This tutorial is based on a WordPress 2.5 installation (with some files customized and of course all files updated that were critical in WP2.5 […]
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Archive for May, 2008
It’s recently been confirmed that the first WordCamp in the Philippines will be taking place on October 25, 2008 September 6, 2008 in Manila. The event is being put together by the same group of people who were responsible for the Mindanao Bloggers Summit. The WordCamp event plans on taking two tracks. One for technical sessions with the other concentrating on beginners. Asides from the social gathering of WordPress enthusiasts, WordCamp Philippines is also planning to hold an “Install-Fest” where everyone will be encouraged to bring their laptops or desktops to the event where a guided tour of installing to the latest version will done along with, installing the most important plugins, and for demonstrations on how to tweak WP themes. Robillo has stated that : “Beyond the technical know-how that we wish to impart to participants, doing WordCamp in the Philippines will mean deeper awareness of blogging as an […]
[Continue Reading...]WP Lightform WP-Lightform is an AJAX / PHP contact form with spam protection, form validation and custom form elements. Plugins List This plug-in lists all the plugins you are using. The plugin can inserts a simple html list of your blog plugins into any post/page. Postlists Postlists plugin provides placeholders for dynamic lists of posts you can configure in the admin panel! You can define the placeholders yourself and configure the list that should replace it. Role Scoper Role Scoper is a comprehensive drop-in replacement for capability enforcement and administration in WordPress. Assign reading, editing or administration roles to users or groups on a page-specific, category-specific or other content-specific basis. SensitiveTagCloud Sensitive Tag Cloud provides a configurable tagcloud that shows tags depending of the current context only. WP Math Publisher WP Math Publisher allows you and your visitors to create math equations without LaTEX or MathML. User Rank Plugin The […]
[Continue Reading...]How do I start writing on the Plugin Blog and submit my ideas for feedback from readers? After you have registered yourself on the Plugin Blog or if you already have a registration but do not have author permissions, please contact us with your details and a little information about the plugin(s) you are planning to enter into the competition and we will enable your account. This is a security precaution and we apologize for any inconvenience. When should I submit my plugin? We recommend that you submit your plugin to us at the end of the competition. This will give you enough time to test the plugin for any bugs and resolve them. You will have time to look into feature requests from your visitors. This will also ensure that you don’t need to submit multiple bugfixes to us. We prefer receiving a single final version for our records. […]
[Continue Reading...]2 Column Themes WPFreemium WPFreemium is a two column theme widget-ready theme designed for multi-authored blogs. I integrated full gravatar support into all posts, author profiles and comments. Greeny2.0 Greeny2.0 is a 2 column widget-ready theme. The theme has a web2.0 look and uses different flavors of the green color. WP Garden WP Garden is a beautiful two column widget ready theme which has a nice looking header and footer. The theme makes use of green colors for the links. StudioPress Update: Theme Link and Thumbnail removed for reported Copyright Issues with header Image StudioPress is a two column WordPress theme crafted for photographers. StudioPress comes in two varieties – black and white. Mini-wp Mini-wp is a pownce look-a-like theme which is for people who don’t like to post long blog. The sidebar is empty and only contains a note about the author. Andrea Andrea is a beautiful 2 column […]
[Continue Reading...]WordPress is great, nothing new there. However, outside of creating themes or plugins, most people don’t believe they can help contribute to the development of WordPress. This notion is wrong and this post will describe at least 24 different ways in which anyone from joe schmoe to WP-Pro can contribute to the development of WordPress. Helping out the WordPress project comes in two flavors, direct and indirect. Hopefully, after reading this article, you’ll see one or two things in which you feel you can do to contribute to the project.
[Continue Reading...]A reader writes in: I’m developing a new theme and I’m having trouble getting duplicate posts from showing when running two loops (one standard loop and one from a specific category). Even when I copied the specific code from directly from the codex, it was not working. The Codex article the reader mentioned was regarding the Loop. Although the example shows how to avoid a single duplicate post, it doesn’t show how to avoid duplicating multiple posts. Here’s how to show two individual loops without duplicating posts in either loop. Step 1: Add a ‘posts_where’ Function A WordPress filter is needed to accomplish this, and we’re going to be tapping into the ‘posts_where‘ filter. The reason being is we need to modify the query used for the loop and exclude some posts. Here’s the function we’ll be using called post_strip: function post_strip($where) { global $myPosts, $wpdb; $where .= " AND […]
[Continue Reading...]2 Column Themes Wallpaper Wallpaper is a simple fixed-width, 2 column widget-ready theme with a right sidebar. The theme has a blue header and the rest of the body has a white background. In the Rough In The Rough is a two column widget-ready theme with a simple and grungy look. It’s comes with color options of Pink, Red, Green, Orange and Blue. There is also a print.css for better printing. Unstandard Remix Unstandard Remix is a two column widget-ready theme. The theme makes heavier use of transparencies and woodgrain finishes. Rebel Magazine Rebel Magazine is a widget-ready, 2 columns theme with banner ad integration. The theme sports the look of a magazine and can be used by news blogs. 3 Column Themes Blue Blog Blue Blog is a 3 Column which contains 2 widget-ready sidebar, custom templates, integrated pulgins and social networking integration for Digg, delicious and Stumbleupon for […]
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