Digital Raindrops

Squashed Blackberry bill payers tsunami

admin@digitalraindrops.net (Digital Raindrops) — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:59:20 +0000

Totally of topic for Digital Raindrops, nothing to do with WordPress but there could be a payment tsunami coming for the bill payers for the families Blackberry phones. My grandson uses a Blackberry Curve phone to keep in touch with … Continue reading →

Twenty Eleven Page of Posts Extended

admin@digitalraindrops.net (Digital Raindrops) — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 16:26:51 +0000

We recently published a post on a WordPress Page of Posts template page for the twenty eleven theme using a child theme, the WordPress page of posts child theme used custom fields to choose a category and a style for the … Continue reading →

Twenty Eleven Two Post Columns

admin@digitalraindrops.net (Digital Raindrops) — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:13:59 +0000

We tackled the two content columns a few times for different themes in the past, now we want to look at the new WordPress default twenty eleven theme. We are going a little further with a content file with arguments … Continue reading →

Revolving Door Opens

admin@digitalraindrops.net (Digital Raindrops) — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:49:20 +0000

As this website has evolved we have tried different systems to engage with our visitors, we restricted the downloading of files to registered users, added a forum, and tried BuddyPress We have concluded that visitors to our website, find us … Continue reading →

WordPress Code Series If Then Else

admin@digitalraindrops.net (Digital Raindrops) — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 15:51:05 +0000

We thought it would be good to create a series of posts with examples of code blocks in WordPress, The WordPress code is a mix of PHP HTML and WordPress custom functions. There are several different ways that the IF statements … Continue reading →

Google Page One in Minutes

admin@digitalraindrops.net (Digital Raindrops) — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:13:34 +0000

We are more amazed with Google day by day, on this blog we try to write on a regular basis, the posts are our own work and all about WordPress development, tutorails, tips, how to’s, articles etc: however we do … Continue reading →

Twenty Eleven Three Menus

admin@digitalraindrops.net (Digital Raindrops) — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:22:49 +0000

This post has a WordPress child theme download and shows how to use three menu’s with the Twenty Eleven theme, we will often see themes with a top menu, main menu and footer menu, the changes to add another two menus … Continue reading →

Add WP Pagenavi Twenty Eleven Child Theme

admin@digitalraindrops.net (Digital Raindrops) — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 17:56:11 +0000

While answering a topic on the WordPress Support forum lead us to look at the Twenty Eleven function ‘twentyeleven_content_nav( $nav_id )’ in the functions.php file. A lot of the functions in the parent theme can be replaced with functions in … Continue reading →

WordPress Twenty Eleven a Page of Posts

admin@digitalraindrops.net (Digital Raindrops) — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 10:58:30 +0000

One thing we find coming up time and time again is how to have a page with posts from a specific category, we have created several different template pages for different themes and have learned a little with each revision. … Continue reading →

Twenty Eleven Popular Posts Widget

admin@digitalraindrops.net (Digital Raindrops) — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:10:45 +0000

This is the second post on Twenty Eleven Post Widgets, the second widget we have added to our child theme is a popular posts widget, this will show our posts based on the number of comments they have received, it … Continue reading →