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Freshly Pressed: A Wild New Plugin Appears! Custom Classes

CMDR Mitchcraft

Reading time: 1 minute

From time to time I like to surf through the repository and try out new plugins.  It keeps me in the know and I’m able to share those plugins with you.  So, here’s what I found as I was surfing this fine Wednesday:

Custom Classes

Justin Tadlock is a man synonymous with great plugins, and his latest one is fantastic, as always.  Two boxes show up in your post screen.  Both allow you to add custom classes to pages; the boxes allow you to specify both “post classes” and “body classes”.  If you are unfamiliar with their usage, body_class and post_class allow you to add custom (and predefined) classes to your body and div tags to allow custom design and/or formatting depending on what they are defined as.  A simple plugin, with a fantastic simple purpose.

 

body_class, custom classes, justin tadlock, plugin, post_class
  • WordPress 3.3’s roadmap has been set… at least, it will be.

    WordPress 3.3’s roadmap has been set… at least, it will be.

    Reading time: 3 minutes

    Here’s the email I received of some of the proposed changes to WordPress – a lot of them look super exciting (goodbye IE7!) and plenty of them are just amazing.  What’s your favorite? User Feature: Media Uploader (azaozz) · Definitely v1: Integrate Plupload into dashboard. (GSoC project) · Probably v2: Improve our image manipulation and…

    WordPress
  • Custom Branded Google Search With WordPress

    Custom Branded Google Search With WordPress

    Reading time: 5 minutes

    I’ve been playing around with some really cool features in WordPress lately.  With my site, and a few others i’ve been working on, I’ve been toying with the “Page Template” feature that allows me to customize which elements show up on a page (like, a sidebar, specific headers, a footer, etc).  But, while working specifically…

    Tutorial, WordPress