With the recent launch of WordPress 3.0 there are loads of sweet new features to dig into. Digging into WordPress has a nice summary of many of the new features. My favourite new features include the custom post types and custom taxonomies (which have been available for a while, but the dashboard management capability has […]
WordPress: Exclude child categories from category archives
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 […]
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 […]