Enabling custom backgrounds is probably one of the easiest things you can do to improve a WordPress theme that you’re building or customizing. It takes one small addition to your theme’s functions.php file: add_custom_background(); Save that and you’ll get Backgrounds added to the Dashboard >> Appearance menu, as shown here. This will allow you or [...]
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WordPress 3.0 offers the exciting new world of custom post types, giving you the ability to manage and present content with fine-grained control. Creating custom post types is the easy part, but how do you get them to show up in your theme? This tutorial will walk you through this process from start to finish. [...]
WordPress 3.0 has a new standard comment form tag that you should know about. Whereas previously the code for outputting a comment form was much longer, now you have this: <?php comment_form(); ?> This will give you a simple comments form that looks something like this: Now doesn’t that simplify your theme development? If you [...]
Whether you’re customizing a theme, creating one based on a framework, or starting from scratch, you’ll probably need a few references along the way to remember everything that needs to go into a WordPress theme, not to mention adding advanced customizations. I decided I would share a small corner of my bookmarked resources for developing [...]
We’re going to be starting a series on innovative ways to use jQuery with WordPress and BuddyPress. Before starting we should look at a couple of basics. The first foundational item you will need in order to start adding jQuery effects to your WordPress site(s) is how to include jQuery in your theme. If you’re [...]
Have you ever wished for multiple content blocks, in addition to pages and posts, that can be edited within the WordPress dashboard and placed in custom regions of your template? The MultiEdit plugin is your key to breaking open new possibilities for a more modular approach to WordPress. This is very similar to Drupal blocks [...]
Give your BuddyPress default theme a little kick with the @font-face CSS rule. Custom fonts are the quickest way to personalize your social networking environment. Fonts allow you to insinuate tone, create a more engaging site for your users, and consistently maintain your branding without having to produce dozens of image files for headers throughout [...]
In case you’re likely to be doing any theme testing and debugging in the coming days, this plugin will come in handy. Theme Test Drive offers you a way to test out and work on new themes without having to duplicate your installation to test it live. I found this guide over at Inspect Element [...]
