March, 2009

New and improved: WP Blank at your service!

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I’ve tweaked my WP Blank theme a bit, making it even more basic than before and a lot more compact. Also, I fixed some issues with the validation and some other odds and ends…

Feel free to download and try it out, it free for any use (commercial or non-commercial). As always, I’d love to hear what you think about it!

(You can also download the original pack here.)

Being resourceful


That's one way to make sure you get a seat on the bus...

Differentiate comments and replies with php

In a theme I’m working on I wanted the text on comment replies to change from “comment author says” to “comment author replies” and by adding this piece of code in “…theme-folder/functions.php” I achieved it:

if ($depth == 1):

 //if it's a primary comment, do this
 _e('says', 'blank'); 

else:

 //if it's a comment reply, do this instead
 _e('replies', 'blank'); 

endif;

Quick, easy and neat, just the way we like our code! :D

I’m still a raging noob when it comes to php, but I’m getting better. I’m quite proud that I figured this on out on my own…! *lol*)

Best WP Design Award at WPWebHost.com

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I’m entering the Best WordPress Design Award arranged by WPWebHost.com!

There are 5 categories in which you can enter; Best Clean & Minimalist, Best Retro & Vintage, Best Grunge, Best Han-Drawing Style and finally Best Modern & Elegant.

Competing for the glory, life-time hosting and $200 in cash I’m entering the “Best Clean & Minimalist” category! (Had a hard time deciding which category fit the best though…)

Socialized webdesign

 

Build Your Social Page by CSS-Tricks_1236099797445

This is a neat idea. Easily achieved in alternative ways also, if you feel that terms like “jQuery, JSON and API:s” are a bit intimidating.

Setting up something like this in Wordpress using ordinary RSS-feeds would be childsplay, I think I’ll make a theme with this kind of usage in mind further on.