For this sit-down of "FS Interviews", we're glad to have with us one of the most well-known front-end developers, Chris Coyier. We'll discuss primary languages, projects, community management, books, debugging, and notoriety.
Building a Better Category Menu
by Fire G on Jan. 12th in Coding, HTML/Javascript, PHP, Tutorial with no comments yet.
A couple of days ago I showed you how to make a category menu. In this post I'm going to show you how to create an even more advanced version of the same function, that not only has all the same features, but also includes the ability to be sorted into a different order.
Creating a Category Menu in Wordpress
by Fire G on Jan. 3rd in Coding, PHP, Tutorial, Wordpress with no comments yet.
One of the most common features on any blog or website is category highlighting showing you which category you're in or the page is in. Wordpress, by default, does not have a function to do this. Thus it's up to us developers to write our own custom functions to do this, and that's exactly what's I'm going to be teaching you in this tutorial.
Building a Custom “Search By Category” Wordpress Plugin
by Fire G on Jul. 16th in Coding, PHP, Plugins, Screencasts, Tutorial, Wordpress with no comments yet.
With an ever increasing amount of content building on your Wordpress site, your users will inevitably need to search your site to find that specific helpful article from way back. To help narrow the search results, I’m going to show you how to code a plugin that allows the user to search based on category.
How to control a category in the Wordpress loop
by Fire G on Jul. 7th in Coding, PHP, Tutorial, Weekday Tips, Wordpress with 2 comments.
While reading though some twitter updates this morning, I stumbled across one that was asking if anyone knew a way to exclude a specific category in Wordpress from the loop, unless it was certian page template. After a quick minute of thinking, I came up with this small function that will do just that.
Coding Fire-G.com – a time-lapse video
by Fire G on Jun. 19th in CSS, Coding, HTML/Javascript, Screencasts with 1 comment.
so last weekend I finally got around to coding my personal site over at Fire-G.com and decided to screen-capture it all to show you guys!
I would have posted this sooner, but it took 20 hours for my 7.5 hour video to render. Then it took another 6 hours to render after I sped it up.
Search By Category – WP Plugin
by Fire G on Jun. 17th in Coding, Freebies, PHP, Plugins, Wordpress with 34 comments.
Search by Category allows your visitor to select which category they want to search your blog inside of. This allows visitors to find the exact article they're looking for and helps increase viewer loyalty.
Wordpress Plugin Templates v2.0
by Fire G on Jun. 8th in Coding, Freebies, PHP, Plugins, Wordpress with 10 comments.
Not that long ago I released my Wordpress Plugin Templates and they were greatly received by you all. Through this wide spread attraction, it was inevitable that a flaw would be found and some improvements be suggested. So I took these suggestions and an idea I had, and updated these templates to allow for less editing of the template files and faster plugin development all around.
Best Tools of the Trade: Web Developer
by Fire G on Jun. 3rd in Coding, Design, Reviews with 3 comments.
As a web developer, I've gone through my fair share of programs for me to do my work in, and not all Apps are made the same. So here's a list of the best software and tools that help you get the job done, and get it done right.
Even More Advanced Thumbnail Selection in Wordpress
by Fire G on Jun. 1st in Coding, PHP, Tutorial, Wordpress with 3 comments.
About 3 weeks ago I did a screencast on how to build a dynamic thumbnail selector for Wordpress. When I wrote that function, I noticed that if the post was in more than 1 of the specified categories, then it choose the first one (alphabetically). This bothered me enough that today I devised a system that will select the category based on a hierarchy we give to the options.
