mimoYmima — creative web design

The smart way to disable your sidebar

mimoymima — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:24:51 +0000

If you find yourself making a new WordPress template for pages that are identical to others on your site but just don’t have a sidebar, consider this technique instead which lets you turn the sidebar off selectively on a page by page basis.


ID, 'disableSidebar', $single = true);
	if ($disableSidebar !== 'true') { get_sidebar(); }
?>

what it does

It checks to see if you have a custom field set in your post to disable the sidebar and if you do it turns off the sidebar

how to use it

Just make a new custom field for your page called disableSidebar and set it to true. That’s it.

Launch: Cynthia King Dance Studio

mimoymima — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:40:52 +0000

We are very proud to launch the new site for Cynthia King Dance Studio. It’s a local studio (literally down the street from us) that has been keeping our neighborhood moving for many years. Their old site needed a visual face lift, and they were also looking for an improvement on their content management system.

Inspired by the amazing photographs they had from different performances, we created a modern site that stands out over their competition. We also created a separate theme for their Vegan Ballet Slippers page, made a video and a photo gallery, google calendar, news… you name it, they got it

The mother of all Wordpress body tags

mimoymima — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:05:23 +0000

It took us a long time to perfect this gorgeous body tag, it includes everything you’d want as a front end developer, it inserts the name of the page you’re on into the class attribute, it adds the pages parent as the id, works on home, 404, search, tag, and category pages as well.

NOTE: In order for this to work you’ll need to set your permalink structure to something that uses post names in the urls instead of numbers. You set that in Settings > Permalinks. We use /%year%/%monthnum%/%category%/%postname%/

So without further ado, here’s it is:



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Launch: Planet Awesome Kid!

mimoymima — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:55:52 +0000

We’re very proud to introduce our latest and greatest web project, Planet Awesome Kid! The purpose of the site is to celebrate kids fashion in a fun and sweet way. We spent a lot of time getting the design perfected to giving the photography center stage; they have some killer photographers on board.

If you’re in New York on March 20th, you might want to check out their event in partnership with Global Action for Children – we designed the invitation email as well.

In Progress: Brooklyn Learning

mimoymima — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:36:02 +0000

Brooklyn Learning is a company dedicated to helping kids reach their potential. With programs in areas like speech therapy, learning through play, social skills training or tutoring, their approach is fresh, fun and very successful.

Their identity work portrays the essence of who they are, with lots of Brooklyn touches – the color inspiration came from the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team, and the B-K-L letters on the blocks are pretty obvious. That’s some borough pride. We are now working on the website and collaborating with Amy Way Photography for the imagery on the site.

Typepad to Wordpress Migration

mimoymima — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:08:56 +0000

This is a collection of instructions we have found on different websites and hopefully will make your migration a little easier than ours was.

Easier migration is to MovableType
Export TypePad content
Manage > Import/Export
Do regular expressions directly on TypePad export file or SQL file instead of after export to cut down on errors. Or, use the Search Regex Plugin for WordPress.
Disable domain mapping in Typepad if the new site keeps the same URL
Control Panel > Site Access > Domain Mapping
Most Typepad images are stored by date: ‘http://www.DomainName.com/photos/[a-Z]+?/[0-9]{4}/[0-9]{1,2}/[0-9]{1,2}/’ > ‘/wp-content/uploads/imports/’
Some images are stored like this: ‘http://www.DomainName.com/.a/’ > ‘/wp-content/uploads/imports/’
Typepad links correctly to images without extensions; WordPress does not
‘800wi’ > ‘800wi.jpg’ or ‘800wi.png’, need to check image manually
‘500pi’ > ‘500pi.jpg’
‘320pi’ > ‘320pi.jpg’
Some images may need manual fixes because their linked name is not the same as their filename
’sunny_image_2′ > 6a00…..jpg
For replacements where the pattern to match is just a string, use phpMyAdmin
“UPDATE table SET field = REPLACE(field, ‘pattern’, ‘replacement’)”
For replacements where the match is a regular expression or the replacement uses subpatterns, use a script:

Wordpress.com to Self-hosted Migration

mimoymima — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:52:13 +0000

There are a lot of instructions on line regarding blog migration from Wordpress.com to your own self-hosted wordpress site. These instructions are based on our experience trying to follow those instructions and have a few important steps that we figured out on our own.

Login to www.wordpress.com
Go to Tools > Export
Login into new site
Go to Tools > Import > Wordpress

select Download and import file attachments
continue to export and import the files until the “All Done” prompt appears at the bottom of the page

Delete any dummy posts you have created

Domain Management

If you’re hosting your domain name with wordpress follow the instructions to change your nameserver information.

Launch: ToughMudder.com

mimoymima — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:03:50 +0000

We’ve made websites for all kinds of businesses, but this is the first project we’ve worked on that involved mud, fire, barbed wire, AND mankinis. Tough Mudder is the toughest one day endurance race on the planet, so their site needed to kick some major ass.

The site was designed to be expandable, as they will be having more races in the future and incorporating new content down the road. If you think you’re tough enough, or if you just want to see how awesome the site is, go to ToughMudder.com

Re-Launch: Wine Flirt 2.0

mimoymima — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:06:14 +0000

We just finished re-designing the WineFlirt site from the ground up. It builds on all the great stuff that the old site had which was mainly their weekly newsletter (now called Scoop) and adds sections for their Wine Club, Happenings, and the Pleasure Panel, a new series of events they’ll be hosting.

Sneak Peek: Cynthia King Dance

mimoymima — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:06:19 +0000

We are excited to be working with one of the most vibrant businesses in Windsor Terrace – Cynthia King Dance Studio is literally down the street from us. We have walked by the studio for years and now we’re getting to know all the fun that goes on inside.

Besides ballet, they offer tap dance, hip hop, toddler dance – you name it. They organize amazing shows and, luckily for us, they have great photography from their performances and students, which is surprisingly hard to find in dance studio websites. Cynthia found out about us through one of her photographers, our friend Amy Way. The new design is going to truly represent this wonderful, energetic studio that has been keeping our neighborhood dancing for the last 8 years.