Search By Category – WP Plugin
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
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
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
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.
WordPress Plugin Templates
WordPress plugins have become my new addiction in the WP environment, thus I've noticed that I'm using the same few beginning steps every time. This led me to create a template file so that I just open, edit, and continue on my merry way of coding my plugin. I'm posting these templates for free use no matter what you're working on. I'll even be a nice guy and let you repost them as your own.
Optimizing the “Google Syntax Highlighter” WP plugin
Google Syntax Highlighter may be WordPress' most popular syntax highlighter plugin, but it's not the most efficient. With plenty of extra JavaScript and sloppy PHP writing, it's quite the bloat-ware if left unchecked. So here's 2 fixes showing how to put GSH on a diet and still get all the features of the plugin.
Advanced WordPress Thumbnail Selection
Thumbnails in WordPress themes are a critical part of relaying the topic or aspect of the article/post you've written. With some simple tricks you can add your own to your theme, and there are even plugins out there to do it for you. The fact of the matter is that these systems you have in place have faults, so here's a video detailing how to create an advanced WordPress Thumbnail generator in your own theme.
Weekday Tip: WordPress Conditional Tags
Wordpress' conditional tags are by far one of the most useful and unglorified tools for theme and plugin development. Here's a list of all the tags.
The Conditional Tags can be used in your Template files to change what content is displayed and how that content is displayed on a particular page depending on what conditions that page matches. For example, you might want to display a snippet of text above the series of posts, but only on the main page of your blog. With the is_home() Conditional Tag, that task is made easy.
Weekday Tip: CSS Shorthand pt.3
Font
The font property is, with exception of some system fonts, a shorthand property for setting all of the properties for a font in one declaration. These declarations go in order of font-style, font-variant, font-weight, font-size/line-height, font-family. Below is a chart showing values can be used in each section.
Weekday Tip: CSS Shorthand pt.2
Background
The background property is a shorthand property for setting all background properties in one declaration. The order of declarations is background-color, background-image, background-repeat, background-attachment, and then background-position. Remember that default values for these properties are not set.