This is the most beautiful timeline I’ve seen in a very long time.
It not only boasts some ridiculously awesome features, but’s it’s easy to use, too!
Have a WordPress site?
They’ve got a plugin, too!
Thanks to the awesomeness of 8BIT‘s Tom McFarlin, I’ve found a great place to snag some WordPress 4-1-1!
The WordPress Codex gets the job done, but this handy tool may be a better place for getting info on WordPress data:
As you can see, the Slick Menu plugin has plenty of options.
You can download the jQuery plugin or easily add it to WordPress via the Slick Menu WordPress plugin.
I am a self-taught WordPress programmer that has been a wild roller coaster ride that has been full of experiences of major and minor successes as well as huge and numerous minor failures. If you are coding themes, plugins, or actually working on the WordPress developmental team, you will have to eventually work with “The Loop.”
The Loop controls the whole of the WordPress blog and is extremely powerful, yet simple. Unfortunately, for someone that comes into programming with WordPress and does not have anyone there to explain stuff with them, it can be extremely confusing.
Thankfully, we have been given a great visual illustration by wptuts+ that wonderfully shows how it runs and where you will need to make your changes for your own personal site.
I still remember when I first began looking into a blogging CMS.
After researching WordPress, Joomla and Drupal, I decided to go with WordPress — I’m glad I did!
I didn’t do it because they were becoming the clear leader in the world wide web marketshare, but because it really is a great platform to build a website.
If you’re thinking about building a website your self, church or business, I highly recommend diving into WordPress. Take a look at these numbers!
On my personal blog I put an image at the top of each post. I’ve wanted to do this with WordPress’ Featured Image function, but haven’t gotten around to it, yet.
When I do, what will happen to all those old posts? What will happen when I try to use WordPress’ post thumbnail feature?
For my old posts, I will want to use the first image that’s found in the content or some sort of default if no image is present.
Of course, this is one example of many reasons why you would want to do this!
Here’s the code:
If you’ve built your WordPress theme to use the Featured Image functionality, your RSS feed subscribers are missing part of your post.
When you use a small thumbnail, you may not think much about it. However, there may be instances where you want to include your post thumbnail. Of course, there are those WordPress theme designs that include a large wide Featured Image that can add a lot to the feeling of a post. Sure, you could simply insert the image at the top of the post, but there are some other functions you can do in WordPress by calling a posts Featured Image.
With this WordPress snippet, you can have the best of both worlds. Here’s how to add your post thumbnail/Featured Image to your RSS feed:
Automattic’s Jetpack WordPress plugin tempted us with all the new things they would be adding when it was first released. We didn’t know what they would be adding, but the ‘coming soon’ boxes gave us an idea of how much awesome would show up in only a matter of time.
So far, the add-on’s have been pretty solid. Reducing the need for some other plugins you may have used in the past, as Jetpack is becoming more and more like one giant sized solution.
The latest update is by far the most exciting.
Check your plugin updates, Jetpack now includes a fully customizable contact form!
If you’re an editor and/or manage a blog with multiple authors, you need to know about Author Admin.
The Author Admin plugin will not only improve your author management, but helps with security, too. The more authors you have, the more username and passwords you have floating around. Author Admin will help you keep tabs on your author passwords as well as reminder authors to update their passwords.
And thanks to the creator of Author Admin, 8BIT‘s Tom McFarlin, we have away a copy!
Have you seen the one page websites that include a navigation system that simply glides you down the page?
That’s exactly what PageScroller does for you. It’s a jQuery smooth scrolling plugin that adds animated page targets to your website with ease.
They’re even working on a WordPress plugin, too!
