Archive for July, 2008
Build a Featured Posts Section for WordPress
in PHP, Working with CMS's by Dan HarperWordPress is awesome. Even more awesome is the fact that it can be customized to power any type of site you like! Here, we’ll be learning how to create a featured and “latest posts” section - easily a ‘must-have’ for all good News/Magazine themes. We’ll also go over using the ‘Custom Fields’ to their fullest potential. Continue Reading
Wordpress Sidebar Turned Apple-Flashy Using jQuery UI
in Javascript / AJAX, Working with CMS's by Harley AlexanderApple have always been Gods in terms of the way they present themselves and their products. I just love the sidebar on the Apple Startpage, and wanted to use the Accordion plugin in jQuery UI to achieve this! As if that’s not enough for me, I want to be able to show and hide it at my pleasure as well. I’m gonna show you how!
Learn PHP from Scratch: A Training Regimen
in PHP by Jeffrey WayHolding the title of “number one”, PHP is the most popular language among developers. Even still, many prefer different languages. Yours truly, for example, is most comfortable when working in the ASP.NET environment. However, because of the enormous success of Wordpress, more and more developers have decided to expand their horizons and learn yet another language.
Submit A Form Without Page Refresh using jQuery
in Javascript / AJAX by EricPreviously on NETTUTS, Philo showed how you can use jQuery to add form validation to wordpress comments that works without any page reload. Another great way of utlizing jQuery to enhance user experience is to not just validate, but to submit your form entirely without a page refresh. In this tutorial I’ll show you how easy it is to do just that — submit a contact form that sends an email, without page refresh using jQuery! (The actual email is sent with a php script that processes in the background). Let’s get started.
Creating a Dynamic Poll with jQuery and PHP
in Javascript / AJAX, PHP by Jonathan RudenbergWhen you combine some neat functionality courtesy of PHP with the cleverness of jQuery you can produce some pretty cool results. In this tutorial we’ll create a poll using PHP and XHTML, then make use of some jQuery Ajax effects to eliminate the need for a page refresh, and to give it a nice little bit of animation.
Solving 5 Common CSS Headaches
in Articles, HTML / CSS by Jeffrey WayCSS is a relatively simple language to learn. Mastering it, on the other, can prove a little more difficult. Compensating for various browser inconsistencies alone can produce a migraine. In this article, we’ll demystify five of the most head thumping issues that you’ll encounter when building web applications.
How to Make a Featured Post Carousel for WordPress
in Working with CMS's by James LaoIt’s becoming more and more common for blogs to feature certain posts at the top of the page. In this tutorial, we’re going to show you how to implement this in WordPress. We’ll be using the default theme, Kubrik, as our base theme, but it should be adaptable to most themes with some modification. There’s very little code and featuring posts is simple.
Tabbed Content using jQuery and WP_Query
in Javascript / AJAX, Working with CMS's by Harley AlexanderWordpress provides a huge array of information about your blog and it’s content. Showing lots of this information can become space consuming. A great looking solution to this is tabbed content!
In this tutorial, we’ll take the WordPress Newspaper Layout we worked on previously and extend it with tabs.
Build a Basic Newspaper style layout with Wordpress and jQuery
in HTML / CSS, Javascript / AJAX, Working with CMS's by Harley AlexanderGrid/Newspaper/Magazine templates are becoming more and more predominant in the wordpress skin and theme community. They look classy, but it can be daunting knowing where to start. In this tutorial we use the power of jQuery to create a grid layout with size-degrading headers!
Can You Hack Your Own Site? A Look at Some Essential Security Considerations
in Articles by Ben CharnockVersion one goes gold! Visitors are landing from every corner of the globe. You know there are likely to be a few teething problems, I mean, this is 1.0.0.0… all those zeroes are meant to allow us a little grace right?
