Removing WordPress Login Design

Posted in: WordPress Tutorials February 2, 2009Frank

In a previous post, I showed the possibility, how to use WordPress in regard to Corporate Identity. For example adjusting the login area. This shouldn’t be a tough task with the according articles.

In both cases I didn’t talk about how to deactivate the default WordPress layout, since I always used the example based of the WordPress stylesheet. But the stylesheet of WordPress isn’t really lean and why should you load unnecessary data, which you really don’t need?

With a little hook and an appropriate function I can disable to load the stylesheet of WordPress and load my own CSS – How that works can be read in both articles about adjusting theme login.
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Identify Authors With Gravatars

Posted in: WordPress Hacks January 14, 2009Frank

Since WordPress version 2.5, it is easier to include the Gravatar of a comment author in the comments. WordPress offers a feature that is easy to use and it brings some parameters with. In order to use and how to include a Gravatar, I would refer to the article „Gravatar Use Easy“.

But with this feature you can do more. Magazine-style for blogs are currently in high demand and many blogs have a a couple of authors. Many times the blogs link and present the author of the respective contribution. WP offers a whole range of template tags to this functionality, check out Codex.

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Gravatars Use Easy

Posted in: WordPress Hacks January 12, 2009Frank

Since version 2.5 of WordPress, Gravatar service is included in the core files. On one hand, you can use it to make the comment overview more nicely. But you can also integrate this function in your template and you don’t have to use a Plugin.
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Create Your Own WordPress Login Design

Posted in: WordPress Hacks December 17, 2008Frank

WordPress 2.7 has been released these days and comes with some updates to the backend design. I think most of you already know that there is a new login-section. The design is now equal to the new backend’s and the team did only little changes.
From my point of view this is very important to an all-inclusive-package, like a theme – or a corporate design.
The CSS changed a bit and if anybody wants to customize the login-section, I will show how to achieve it. The CSS is also included as a good starting point for your own custom design.

List All Users in WordPress

Posted in: WordPress Hacks November 12, 2008Frank

The possibility in WordPress to display all users is not available in a standard installation. To get a simple list of all users, you can use following function. To display just specific user groups or users, there are many template tags available to do so, go to WordPress-Codex – Author Tags.
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10 Checks to the Perfect WordPress theme

Posted in: WordPress Themes October 29, 2008Frank

This is the title of Joost de Valk post, which I don’t agree completely, some points are too stiff and should be considered and well thought through by the author ahead of the actual coding.

I made some thoughts and wrote down how I would start programming a perfect theme. Please don’t hesitate to comment and put in your thoughts on this article, which enhance the value of this post.
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