Digital Raindrops

WordCamp Edinburgh 2012

admin@digitalraindrops.net (Digital Raindrops) — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 07:24:13 +0000

This was my first WordPress WordCamp, I was not sure what to expect, or what level of WordPress user the talks would be targeted at, what was I going to get out of the whole WordCamp UK experience. My reasons for attending … Continue reading →

Digital Raindrops Colorizer

admin@digitalraindrops.net (Digital Raindrops) — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 06:31:42 +0000

We thought we would use the WordPress Twenty Eleven theme and the the Farbtastic color picker to colorize our theme from the website front page instead of the admin area. We have been looking at the $_SESSION variable, so we thought … Continue reading →

WordPress Twenty Eleven Pluggable

admin@digitalraindrops.net (Digital Raindrops) — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 12:02:59 +0000

In April 2011 we wrote a post on pluggable functions, since then we have been looking at other functions like post classes, which we used in the first release of our photo blogging theme. While loitering over on the WordPress … Continue reading →

Free WordPress PhotoBlog Theme

admin@digitalraindrops.net (Digital Raindrops) — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:14:31 +0000

Following on from our recent posts on creating different layouts using the post class, we thought it would be fun to apply the layouts to a Photo Blogging Theme. Photo Blogging and photography themes need to be quite plain, as … Continue reading →

WordPress London Post Class

admin@digitalraindrops.net (Digital Raindrops) — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:48:12 +0000

We created this theme as an extension to our post on the WordPress Post Class function after our talk at the #wpldn meetup group, we have extended the theme with a couple of new layouts, adding the date icon. As … Continue reading →

Resize the Twenty Eleven Theme

admin@digitalraindrops.net (Digital Raindrops) — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 12:00:13 +0000

We have seen a number of solutions to resize the WordPress twenty eleven theme, there are a number of considerations when resizing the theme, like the built in headers and content area, we thought we would add our own solution … Continue reading →

Keyboard Navigation for WordPress Posts

admin@digitalraindrops.net (Digital Raindrops) — Wed, 23 May 2012 21:38:54 +0000

One of the topics on the WordPress Forum asked about adding a snippet of JQuery to a theme, the snippet of code was to navigate the posts using the left and right arrow keys. We were able to quickly create … Continue reading →

Live CSS Stylesheet Editing

admin@digitalraindrops.net (Digital Raindrops) — Wed, 16 May 2012 07:32:58 +0000

Sometimes we may have a small style change we want to try for our live website, it would be nice if this could be done without editing the stylesheet, saving, adjusting, saving again, and forgetting what the values were before we started. … Continue reading →

WordPress Post Class

admin@digitalraindrops.net (Digital Raindrops) — Sun, 13 May 2012 07:59:06 +0000

There are many themes that offer magazine style layouts for the WordPress platform, we thought it would be fun to create a twenty eleven child theme with some different layouts, we have also created a child theme download so you … Continue reading →

One Click WordPress Child Theme

admin@digitalraindrops.net (Digital Raindrops) — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 09:05:58 +0000

Over on the WordPress forums a lot of users starting out with theme development or just wanting to tweak a theme, post topics on changing a theme, these theme changes range from changing a color or padding to creating a … Continue reading →