WP Engineer

Month: September 2008

  • Use Metaboxes In Your Theme Or Plugin

    Not only the design changed since version 2.5. Also the markup was changed immensely, so there might be changes in the editor area, if you use pluigns, which implements data there. Here a little workaround, how to keep the design in editor area.

  • How To Highlight A Slogan In WordPress

    In this example I’m talking about how to display a specific company slogan in a certain color. This slogan is found in the header and content. Of course my client doesn’t want to put in span class=”foo” every time. This is what it should look like:

  • The Mega Collection – 15.000 icons

    Two quick link tips with great value – 15.000 icons mostly in high quality. It’s worth it the long download time and drinking a coffee meanwhile you wait for the big package. But it will certainly take time to search through all icons. Some of them are also known from other collections, but there are…

  • Show Amount Of Posts, Pages, Categories, Tags, Comments For WordPress Themes

    It looks like showing total amount of posts, pages and some other statistical values are very popular right now. I received many inquiries how to show statistical values on your front end. Following solution only works with WordPress 2.5 or higher. If you need help for a lower version, let me know in the comment…

  • Determine Path To Plugin and Content Directories

    If you like to write a Plugin and you want to keep it downward compatible, then check beforehand the constants, because since WordPress version 2.6 you can rename the folder wp-content and this will also change the path to the Plugin folder. Just a few lines of code are enough and you can work with…

  • iGoogle Gadget for your Blog

    Since my wife uses her own computer and explores all the possibilities, I got a lot questions and found some interesting tools because of her. One of them is iGoogle. Experimenting with it makes every newbie happy and it is very easy to configure. I came to the idea to offer the blog as a…