Web Design

WP Dynamic Highlight Menu

OK, so I have a major problem with brainstorming and researching a certain item, function, procedure, trick, hack etc for the current project I’m working on, never writing it down, and having to re-learn it all over again the next time I need to use the same thing. Since I’ve been trying to keep content [...]


53 CSS Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without

CSS is important. And it is being used more and more often. Cascading Style Sheets offer many advantages you don’t have in table-layouts – and first of all a strict separation between layout, or design of the page, and the information, presented on the page. Thus the design of pages can be easily changed, just [...]


Wordpress.org Has problems!

So, while browsing around today I decided to take a visit to Wordpress.org. To my astonishment their site was experiencing issues (around 4:30 EST). If I had to guess, the issues were stylesheet related, but it rendered there page in a format devoid of position styling (font and links looked to be ok). Here’s a [...]


WP Custom Function: rel_date()

Lately I’ve been working on a ‘Proof-of-Concept” for a large scale Enterprise site conversion to WPMU. This isn’t a complete redesign project, but rather a conversion to keep the same layout and functionality the current site offers, as well as to offer several features unavailable with the clients existing setup. The main feature missing from [...]


Category Mod for WP Loop

On several different occasions I’ve found the need to modify the WP Loop to produce a desired effect….such as  only retrieving posts from a certain category. You can find many examples of how to do this by simply doing a Google search. The most common mod I’ve found is this:

<?php query_posts(’category_name=special_cat&showposts=10′); ?>

<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

<!– Do [...]