A normal category page I don’t know if you’ve noticed: on a WordPress category archive page, posts from that category and all its child categories are displayed. I don’t know why. It’s not the behaviour I would have expected, and although it’s not necessarily a bad thing, I can understand that some people wouldn’t want […]
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Rockin’ out WordPress custom loops
What’s a loop? When using WordPress, “The Loop” refers to the code in your template files that displays posts. Usually there is only one main loop per page, but you can have secondary custom loops to show special content. These can include recent posts and related posts.
Drop-up menu in Thesis 1.6
Yes, drop-up is a bit of an oxymoron. Technically you pull something up and drop something down, but since we talk about drop-downs so much, and the effect of what I’m about to show you happens with the same amount of “gravity”, and I’m not an language pedant (all of the time)… it’s okay. I […]
Popup EXIF display with Thesography and jQuery
I received a request to make Thesography display EXIF upon hover over an image instead of just displaying as more text in the post. While I won’t include that kind of function in the plugin at this time (because I’m not sure how best to do it while maintaining a good amount of flexibility), I […]
Using Thesis with WPMU
Update 3rd April 2012: Thesis has multiple custom folder support for WordPress networks built in as of Thesis 1.8.3, so you no longer need the methods in this post. What’s up with Thesis and WPMU? Thesis has smart CSS Thesis by DIYthemes is big news these days so you’ve probably heard of it and have […]
Page specific headers in Thesis
I’ve done several posts about Thesis headers before: Thesis full-width headers, Full-width headers in Thesis 1.5 and CSS Custom Headers. All of those lead you in the same general direction: a single custom header for your blog. I recently got asked for step-by-step instructions on how to specify different headers on specific pages. So, I’m […]