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Freshly Pressed: A Wild New Plugin Appears! Custom Classes

CMDR Mitchcraft

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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
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    Open Source, WordPress
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    Design, Tutorial, WordPress