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Creating Widgets in WordPress 2.8 with the Widget API

Michael Castilla — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:29:10 +0000

Earlier this week, we published a post about working with the WordPress 2.8 Actions API, so here’s a post by WooCamp on working with the Widgets API. The post covers how to create a simple, multi-instance widget for adding posts to your sidebar.

Highlight Search Terms with jQuery

Michael Castilla — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:21:43 +0000

Show your user where their search terms appear in their query results with this quick tutorial from Weblog Tools Collection. [Link]

Displaying Error Messages in WordPress

Michael Castilla — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:19:47 +0000

Ever wanted to know what the actual problem is when WordPress returns a blank white screen? Turns out a simple line of PHP can tell WordPress to output the error. [Link]

WordPress Frameworks Comparison Chart

Michael Castilla — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:40:29 +0000

Dan Cole has made an excellent guest post on WPTavern on the comparisons between the Thematic, Hybrid, and Carrington frameworks. [Link]

Win a Free Copy of Hash One

Michael Castilla — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:30:50 +0000

Colorburned is having a giveaway, and the prize is a free limited edition copy of Obox Design’s WordPress theme, Hash One. [Link]

A new term to describe widgets?

Hafiz Rahman — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:12:19 +0000

Ptah Dunbar proposes a get_widget() function. Similar to get_sidebar(), but it’s there to show that widgets don’t necessarily have to show up on a sidebar area. What do you think? [Link]

Help for WordPress 2.7 Users

Hafiz Rahman — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:57:00 +0000

Article includes a link to a beginner’s guide to WordPress 2.7 and also a WordPress 2.7 training material PDF. Useful. [Link]

Theme Playground interviews Matt Mullenweg

Hafiz Rahman — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:38:50 +0000

Ryan Imel interviews Matt Mullenweg about WordPress and the community surrounding it. [Link]

Howto: Displaying Recent Posts per Category

Hafiz Rahman — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 04:01:11 +0000

Alex Cristache explains how to create a multiple-category archive that lists each category and recent posts within it. [Link]

WordPress 2.7.1 is Out

Hafiz Rahman — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:21:17 +0000

It’s a maintenance release with 68 fixes to various things (none of them critical security issues). Time to put that shiny new Automatic Update feature into use, guys. [Link]