Propaganda Party: The Pop Stalin Design Manifesto

04-20-09 ‹› WordPress

Creating a WordPress Magazine-esque Theme: Part II

Second part in a three part series of how I created the theme for my blog using a magazine-esque layout and WordPress custom loops and queries.

04-15-09 ‹› WordPress

Creating a WordPress Magazine-esque Theme: Part I

First part in a three part series of how I created the theme for my blog using a magazine-esque layout and WordPress custom loops and queries.

04-06-09 ‹› WordPress

Using Custom Fields for Post Images

Sometimes a site may want a “featured” section with some text and an image. If you’re using custom fields to achieve this, you may want a way to keep an empty value to display. Meaning, sometimes you don’t always add the image but if in the…

04-02-09 ‹› WordPress

IE6, PNGs and WordPress–It’s a Party!

I am all about the current movement to stop designing for IE6 but being the cautious woman that I am, I’m gonna wait for the numbers to go down just a bit more. I’ve tried a couple of the plugin’s I’ve found for PNG transparency and still found myself looking at gray boxes in IE6. *Shakes fist in anger at IE6*

08-16-08 ‹› WordPress

Wordpress PNG Fix Plugin

I’m sure I’m late off the block on this but since I have the tendency to use WordPress quite a bit in my development of sites these days, I wanted a simple solution for the IE6 PNG issue and I found one. It’s from Unit…

01-19-08 ‹› WordPress

Specifying Unique Titles in WordPress With PHP

I’ve searched long and hard trying to find a way to add the page name to the title tag dynamically to my WordPress blog page when I’m using WordPress as a CMS. I finally found the solution that I was able to understand at ‘Web…

01-16-08 ‹› WordPress

Using WordPress MU as a Development Environment

A mailing list I subscribe to, Women Designer’s Group, one of the women briefly spoke about using WordPress MU for client development. The MU stands for ‘Multi-User’ and so it struck me as a brilliant idea. I’m thinking about implementing it in the near future…

01-14-08 ‹› WordPress

Unique Category Templates in WordPress

In WordPress sometimes you want a different look for different categories. It’s fairly easy to accomplish with a little coding and creating custom page templates.

01-02-08 ‹› WordPress

ZDNet in Praise of Wordpress

Yes, I’m obviously infatuated with Wordpress right now. What can I say I’m definitely smitten. Anyway, there’s an interesting discussion that took place last month over at ZDNet entitled “WordPress vs. an army of clunky content management systems.” Basically the author ponders why so many…

01-01-08 ‹› WordPress

Finally Upgraded Wordpress to 2.3

Sometimes upgrading software isn’t the easiest task, even if that software is famous for its 5-minute installation.

11-07-07 ‹› WordPress

LoopPress: Showcasing WordPress Sites, Blogs & Themes

A friend of mine, Jim Kieffer, the President and Co-Founder of Brightegg.com and Digiwize.com has a new venture called LoopPress—a showcase of WordPress sites, blogs and themes.

10-26-07 ‹› WordPress

Updated: Multiple Sidebar Content in Wordpress

I realized that I didn’t clarify how to do this very well. Sorry. Anyhoo… For single pages, you’ll want to use the following but change the name for each sidebar page you want to be different. So if you have different sidebar content for you…

05-24-07 ‹› WordPress

Listing Wordpress Category Titles on a Page

Custom loops are one of the most powerful tools in your WordPress repertoire. Knowing how to manipulate the code to do what you want by using custom loops is as much fun as it can be frustrating.

05-23-07 ‹› WordPress

Separating Queries in Wordpress

I sometimes have to do certain things over and over again in Wordpress, like excluding certain categories from being shown on a page. Wouldn’t you know, I always forget how to do this. I figured the best way to keep track would to create a blog entry about it.

01-23-07 ‹› WordPress

Using Wordpress As a Client Extranet

After searching around for an easy open-source client extranet, I decided to take a look at Wordpress to see if I can make it happen. I downloaded their latest version, Ella and installed it in its own directory.

The “hardest part” (that’s a bit ‘o sarcasm) will…