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How to add a counter to your post_class in WordPress

Ronald — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 13:18:29 +0000

For the redesign of this site, I wanted to implement various design elements, in particular related to the Responsive Design, made possible by iThemes Builder. One of those elements is that when visiting the home (blog index) page in mobile view, only the excerpt on the first post is displayed, all other posts are displayed [...]

Why NOT load jQuery from a CDN in WordPress

Ronald — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:23:16 +0000

In principle using the Google (or any other) CDN makes sense for a standalone site or application. However, WordPress is an open source application, and there are thousands of developers creating plugins and themes for WordPress, all in their own way. Say I develop a fabulous plugin, and it needs the latest and greatest jQuery [...]

When NOT to use a caching plugin in WordPress

Ronald — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:01:46 +0000

From my experience as a Support Manager, I encounter a lot of “issues” with caching plugins in WordPress. It is good to understand what these plugins do (in general) and when to use them, and when not. How WordPress Generates Pages WordPress is a PHP/MySQL application. PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor. MySQL is a database [...]

How to arrange your WordPress posts in columns and rows

Ronald — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:51:16 +0000

Every now and then, I get asked to do some customisations, and the one that regularly pops up is “I want to display posts in columns, {insert any number here} next to each other, just like in such-and-such (magazine) theme”. I created a piece of code that I am comfortable with, is easy to customise [...]

A quick look at some new features in WordPress 3.1

Ronald — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 13:08:47 +0000

Yesterday, Nov. 25, 2010, WordPress 3.1 Beta 1 was released for testing purposes. There’s a feature stop, which means that the beta testing period will be used to collect and squash any bugs that are found.I had a quick look at what I thought were the most interesting “front-end” features, while the most promising backend [...]

Enhancing your WordPress 3 menus

Ronald — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 13:20:24 +0000

WordPress 3 comes with integrated menu management. Although still a bit quirky at times, it makes creating and managing (navigation) menus a breeze. However, now that creating and displaying a menu takes nothing more than one line of code (wp_nav_menu), we appear to have lost the ability to “manually” add our own stuff. For instance, [...]

How to add featured image thumbnails to WordPress posts and pages, the easy way

Ronald — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:41:27 +0000

Since WordPress version 2.9, featured images (formerly known as “post thumbnails”) are integrated in the Write Post and Write Page panel. Not all WordPress themes make use of these fields, and a change to your template files is required. In this post I will explain how you can add Featured Images to your posts and [...]

How to replace text links with icon links in WP 3 navigation menus

Ronald — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 13:59:47 +0000

The new WordPress 3 navigation menus are an excellent tool to design your own menus, mixing pages, categories and custom links. iThemes created video tutorials on how to use the new WordPress navigation in Builder and Flexx theme. The following tutorial will show how you can replace the text links in the navigation menu with [...]

How to retrieve a menu item ID from WP 3 navigation menus

Ronald — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:20:41 +0000

For an upcoming tutorial on the new menu system in WordPress 3, we need to identify each menu item, so that we can address that in our stylesheet. That way, we can add specific styling to a single menu item, which may be useful if you want to use images or icons in the menu [...]

How to register and list users based on user roles in WordPress

Ronald — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:06:01 +0000

The idea for this came from a request, where the customer wanted to allow users to register online, and then allow these users to be able to view a list of all other users that have registered. Regular site members, such as subscribers, editors, authors or contributors however should NOT be included, and neither should [...]