WordPress News, Hacks, Tips, Tutorials, Plugins and Themes
Currently is WordPress version 3.6 in Beta status. But new nice features are available and ready to test. One of this features is the new UI for the post formats. Post formats is a nice chance for more possibilities to declare a post to your readers. But sometimes we don’t need post formats. The default for hide the Post Format UI is user specific and is an option in the screen options, see the screenshot.
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The Customizer is a relatively new way of WordPress Themes to provide you with options. Here is the visuality important, arrange the options directly in frontend for the Theme, play and save the settings.
We show you how to create your own classes to extend the controls, since not all fields and requests are in the core already. You can access existing solutions of the community or create your own classes. The first step is therefore a brief introduction for new classes and following an overview of some classes. Please extend this list via the comment form.
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Anyone who works in his WordPress blog with a picture and always wants or need to put one on his post - depending on the layout implementation, might like this small Plugin, which can do the setting automatically.
If not a Featured Image is set it grabs the first image that was uploaded to the article.
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The idea of a little game in WordPress came at the WordCamp Switzerland in early 2011. For an interactive session at the WordCamp Germany in Cologne in 2011, one of the creators Thomas, thought that it’d be nice to have a game-session.
On 24th of September started the first WordPress Jeopardy Game Session. For that, the whole room was divided in two teams to battle each other. The points were counted, but nobody really knows who won.
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Today I would like to show you, how to assign CSS classes to custom post types for styling your website.
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WordPress started a new era with the Custom Post Types for developers in the WordPress environment. The possibilities are numerous and primarily from the knowledge of the developer dependent. Nevertheless, there are so many tutorials how to use Custom Post Types in WordPress, but that is not enough - at least not in most cases and therefore are various other steps necessary to make the use of CPT more efficient and smooth.
In this article I would like to briefly explain how to get content of Custom Post Types in the loop of WordPress. This is not a complete guide, but please feel free to add tips, critics, hints in our comment area.