A few weeks ago, I blogged about styling the tinyMCE editor in WordPress to resemble your WordPress theme’s content area. On this post, I received a comment from LA, asking if it’s possible to style the tinyMCE editor for specific posts or post templates. Folks, it’s WordPress… anything’s possible! With my mission at hand, I set to work. I’d […]
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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 […]
Coding with the other side of your brain
19th June, 2009 – 6:37 pm
This might seem like a weird topic for a blog post. Let me elaborate. If you’ve ever coded for a system that is build in a convention you’re not used to (for example, coding using a MVC framework, if you’re not used to it), this concept will begin to make sense. It refers to the almost complete paradigm shift required […]
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 […]
Knowing when to extend the goal posts
8th June, 2009 – 10:00 am
A few months ago, David and Marc posted a video blog entitled “Setting small goals to achieve big ones”. This video focussed on how to rather set lots of smaller goals that are easier to atain than one or two big goals. This approach can be most effective when the smaller goals are set and met […]
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 […]
Useful HTML characters reference
20th May, 2009 – 10:39 am
While searching for a specific character (→ to be exact) I stumbled upon this great resource for HTML character entities. It can serve as a great resource for common characters used in web design (copyright symbols, etc) as well as other characters (for example, replacing a ^ with ↑ in a “back to top” link on your website). […]
