Justin Tadlock – Custom post types in WordPress

Justin Tadlock – A refresher on custom taxonomies

Think Vitamin (Richard Shepherd) – Create your first WordPress Custom Post Type

On a side note, building forms on WordPress has been a pain. The plug-ins that I tried never really worked and decided to use the free version of  Wufoo. However, while they have a great product I always felt that an something directly integrated with WordPress would be a good shout. I have found what seems to be a great solution Gravity Forms. I’m usually a bit skeptical of purchasing plug-ins but I got the developers license and it seems be all good so far, hopefully saving time and money in the long run.

• Mobile Development
• Web Applications
• The Semantic Web
• Personalisation

Of course a little vague and those points can interrelate but just a rough guide as to where I will be doing some extra reading.

“For immediate relief from: Chocolate Cravings, Lovesickness, Exam Pressure, Mild anxiety….”

Pretty well targeted during exam period, hadn’t seen it before. I did need some relief from ‘Exam Pressure’ and enjoyed the humour and as such decided to purchase it.

Features  include:

• Coordinating (Agenda, Responsibility Matrices, Time Management , Timeline)
• Deciding (Consensus, Decision, Pro/Con Table, Quick Poll, Ranking)
• Analysing  (Cost/Benefit Analysis, PICK Matrix, Product Portfolio, Stakeholder Analysis, SWOT Analysis)

Many skeptics disregard computer knowledge based systems as a viable solution, for now anyway. However I think there is a consensus that using computer based applications to aid group decision making is valuable to the decision making process. So it’s going to be interesting to see how Streamwork™ is received.

Extra:

French, Maule, & Papamichail N (2009): Decision Behaviour, Analysis and Support

Samsung and other big name electronics brands have also announced embedded Skype in their latest HD TV’s.  HD 3D Skype would be pretty crazy.

jQuery and Fancybox must be enabled. Have a look at the Fancybox how to page for detailed instructions.

Note – This assumes you have some previous experience with WordPress, however if you have any questions feel free to leave a comment.

Enabling Post Thumbnail

Add the following to your functions.php file:

<?php
if ( function_exists('add_theme_support') )
add_theme_support('post-thumbnails');
?>

Note – There are much more detailed guides to using WordPress Post Thumbnail, here are some good references:

• About WordPress Post Thumbnail
• Using the new Post Thumbnail Feature In WordPress 2.9

How you would usually get the post thumbnail

This is what you would include within your WordPress loop.

<?php
if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) { ?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_post_thumbnail('thumbnail');?></a>
<?php } ?>

How to use the post thumbnail with with Fancybox

<?php
if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) {
$thsrc = wp_get_attachment_image_src( get_post_thumbnail_id($post->ID), 'thumbnail', false, '' );
$fullsrc = wp_get_attachment_image_src( get_post_thumbnail_id($post->ID), 'large', false, '' );
echo ('<a id="single_image" href="'.$fullsrc[0].'"><img src="'.$thsrc[0].'"/></a>');
} ?>
<?php } ?>

So what we are doing here is defining the source of the thumbnail and full image as variables. Then we just insert thumbnail variable into the image src (as we want that to be the default) and the source of the full image into the href (as this is what will open up with Fancybox).

Result