I’ve been reading a lot over the past few months about child themes in WordPress and how users have found them to be an invaluable resource when creating WordPress themes. What’s this “child theme” thing? For those unfamiliar with the concept, the way I’d explain it is as follows: A user chooses a WordPress theme (or theme […]
Category Archives: WordPress
Custom URL rewrites in WordPress — A Getting Started Guide
7th November, 2009 – 12:11 pm
Hey everyone. I’ve been tweeting quite a bit recently about custom URL rewrites in WordPress. After a few hours of trial and error, I’ve managed to get my specific custom URL rewrites working. After reading through several tutorials online (the majority of which used the same examples to explain only a portion the information I was looking for), here’s […]
WordPress theme features: What would you like to see?
3rd October, 2009 – 9:34 am
I’ve been rolling the idea around in my head for a while now to create a WordPress theme, packed with all the features I find myself repeating on each project, as well as some new, useful features… and maybe a few whacky ones as well. Yesterday, I jotted down a list of features I’d like to potentially include in this theme… some […]
Obox launches the Obox Theme Store
7th July, 2009 – 10:30 am
Well, guys, launch day is here. The Obox Theme Store is online! After weeks of watching Dave, Marc and Nat at Obox working late nights and early mornings, weekends, public holidays and all other kinds of days imaginable, the launch has happened, the first sale has come and gone and I must say, it’s looking AWESOME! […]
A few guidelines for WordPress plugin development
20th June, 2009 – 10:12 am
The WordPress plugin API is vast and powerful. It allows developers to essentially hook code into almost any area of the WordPress system without modifying the core files at all. It also allows for the creation of standalone plugins that work within the WordPress system but do not hook into the core modules. Over the […]
My WordPress plugins toolbox
17th June, 2009 – 2:34 pm
Hey everyone, Just thought I’d post a list of my most regularly installed WordPress plugins and why they are installed on virtually every WordPress installation I do. If there are any plugins I haven’t listed that should be, please let me know in the comments. 1. Maintenance Mode This plugin is truly awesome. It allows the developer and […]
Getting the information of a root page in WordPress
10th June, 2009 – 10:00 am
Often, when using WordPress as a content management or blogging tool on a website, one uses a multi-level page structure. This entails a page being listed “underneath” another page in a tree structure. Usually, if your WordPress installation’s permalinks deviate from the default setting, your page URL structure will look something like this: http://websiteurl.com/parentpageslug/subpageslug (Note: note a real URL) What if you […]
WordPress Shortcodes… in short
6th June, 2009 – 10:00 am
In the spirit of the topic, I’ll keep this post short and sweet. Today I’ll be discussing WordPress’s shortcode API and how to utilise it. WordPress shortcodes are codes (eg: [list_bookmarks]) which can be typed into the content area of a page or post in order to provide functionality of some kind. Shortcodes can be wrapped around […]
