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.
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.
Optimizing the “Google Syntax Highlighter” WP plugin
by Fire G on May. 21st in Coding, HTML/Javascript, PHP, Plugins, Tutorial, Weekday Tips, Wordpress with 6 comments.
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.
Weekday Tip: 9 Ultra-useful Wordpress Plugins
by Fire G on May. 18th in Reviews, Weekday Tips, Wordpress with 13 comments.
No Wordpress blog is complete (or even fully functional) with a healthy arsenal of plugins in it's repertoire. So here are 9 ultra-useful plugins to use on every blog setup you configure.
What are “Weekday Tips”
by Fire G on May. 15th in General, Weekday Tips with no comments yet.
It's no secret that we've started a new series on FS called "Weekday Tips" and it's been incredibly successful even though it has only been 2 weeks since it started. So here's a video talking about what it is and how it works and also what all is happening behind the scenes here at FS.
Weekday Tip: Wordpress Conditional Tags
by Fire G on May. 11th in CSS, Coding, Weekday Tips, Wordpress with 9 comments.
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
by Fire G on May. 8th in CSS, Coding, Weekday Tips with 2 comments.
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
by Fire G on May. 6th in CSS, Coding, Weekday Tips with 2 comments.
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.
Weekday Tip: CSS Shorthand pt.1
by Fire G on May. 4th in CSS, Coding, Weekday Tips with 2 comments.
Margin & Padding
The CSS properties "margin" and "padding" allow the use of shorthand declarations, meaning we can state all the "-top", "-left", "-bottom", and "-right" attributes in one call.
