I started a new project several weeks ago and one of the design elements on that site is a WordPress Post Thumbnail “teaser” on the home page, along with a larger version on the single post page. It only made sense to make these home page teaser images hyperlink to the single post page, and fortunately I found a quick-and-easy solution in the WordPress Support Forums. Continue reading
The WordPress Twenty Ten and Twenty Eleven themes both use a ‘posted_on’ function in the functions.php file to generate the post meta information that displays the date that a post was published. With the addition of second function for calculating the minutes or hours ‘ago’ that a post was published, it is easy to modify the WordPress ‘posted_on’ function to display the published date in this new format. Continue reading
When I started creating the TaB13 theme last month, one of the issues that I had to deal with was the image post format and how it linked to an attachment page, instead of a post page like every other post. Continue reading
Automattic made the WordPress Twenty Eleven theme fluid and adaptable to various screen resolutions, but the default CSS and page templates make a few compromises, in the name of small device support. Continue reading
Custom menus were introduced in WordPress 3.0.0 and made it very intuitive and easy for non-technical people to create their own navigation schemes, for their blogs. One feature that is not so intuitive is multiple menus. Why would you want multiple menus? They can help your readers drill-down to more specific content categories, without overwhelming them with large, unwieldy, drop-downs. Continue reading