The last few posts I've made on here were diving into the introductions of a Responsive Design (and I plan on finishing that series - work and life got the best of me), but since I started writing those I've taken the liberty upon myself to rewrite the boilerplate that I use on nearly every site I design and develop. I've added functions here…
This series is meant to be an in-depth look at Responsive Design. It covers the history, the how-to, and best practices on responsive design, taken from the view of someone who hates fluid layouts and has found a (seemingly) better solution. This session will be expounded upon in detail at BlogWorldExpo later this year. Yesterday we mentioned the who and what behind responsive design - how…
This series is meant to be an in-depth look at Responsive Design. It covers the history, the how-to, and best practices on responsive design, taken from the view of someone who hates fluid layouts and has found a (seemingly) better solution. This session will be expounded upon in detail at BlogWorldExpo later this year. According to the latest research, there are now 1.2 billion mobile…
This is a bit different than my usual post, since I'm looking more for feedback than I am trying to teach something. My typical workflow for doing a WordPress theme is as follows: Design PSD Mockups Develop HTML/CSS from PSD Weave WordPress boilerplate theme into HTML/CSS Take it server-side Finish up with functions and loops not already inserted I know that somewhere in there…
Sometimes, when you're taking WordPress beyond a typical blog setup, the need arises to leverage the accounts system in WordPress (to purchase items, to access information, etc). Earlier on I told you how to check to see if a user is logged in, but when your only login box is in the back-end, that makes it hard. The first time a client told me…
One thing I continually notice as I surf the web is that people tend to cut corners when it comes to getting their sites up. They continually forget to drop in small, polishing elements that make a dull website sparkle. Favicons seem to be the most ignored of the bunch, as I see sites quite often that have kept their hosting account's favicon or…
Conditional Tags are one of my all-time favorite tools to use when developing a WordPress theme. It's an intelligent use of programming logic that allows even non-coders to grasp the basics and, in turn, create complex and functional WordPress themes. With the advent of custom post types, a method was needed to check for the presence of a certain post type, and display the…
A client needed a simple way to preserve real estate on the sidebar, but still have the ability to display their policies at a quick glance. I found a plugin on the repository that uses the TipTip jquery script and condenses it down into a simple-to-use shortcode (complete with button on the editing screen). The plugin is called "WordPress Tooltip", and can be downloaded…
If you're like me, you use custom post types a LOT when you're doing projects (or on your own site, if I've done it for you!). There's a lot of value in having a type of content that's unrestrained and flexible. Sometimes, however, you want to be able to search a particular post type, and leave out all of the other results (pages, blog…
Today's a quick post, but it's worthwhile if you're using WordPress as a Content Management System. A lot of times people utilize the built in account system (user logins) to showcase membership data, ecommerce data, and a whole lot more. I found a need at one point to show different data to people depending on whether or not they were logged in. Turns out,…