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!
Adding Form Validation to WordPress Comments using jQuery
in Javascript / AJAX, Working with CMS's by PhiloWhen it comes to simpler user experience, having your form validation happen instantly on the same page is a lot cleaner than reloading pages and possibly losing some form content. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to use jQuery to do some instant checking on an example comment form.
Hack Together a User Contributed Link Feed with WordPress Comments
in Working with CMS's by Collis Ta'eedAlthough WordPress has a *very* extensive plug-in collection, now and again things come up for which there are no suitable plug-ins available (yet). When I built PSDTUTS I thought it would be cool to have a way for users to submit links and to create a public link feed out of it. Today I’ll show you how I hacked together a method using WordPress’ comments.
How to Theme any CMS Using Firebug (and MediaWiki as an Example)
in Working with CMS's by Joshua BlountOften in my career as a web ninja, I've been asked to skin or theme open source projects to bring them in line with my clients brand. Depending on the project this can be more, or less frustrating (I'm looking at you Magento) but MediaWiki is one of the easier projects to work with because of the limited number of files and things to adjust. In this tutorial we’ll go through the theming process I used to style the upcoming PSDTUTS Wiki, but the process, particularly using Firebug, could be applied to pretty much any CMS.
How to Build a Maintainable Site using CushyCMS and Twitter
in HTML / CSS, Site Builds, Working with CMS's by Collis Ta'eedSometimes it seems there are as many CMS products out there as there are web developers. In this tutorial we’re going to build a simple one-page site and then in less than 5 minutes, get it setup with a Twitter feed for daily updates and with CushyCMS for general content. If you haven’t seen it, Cushy is a completely free and extremely simple to use product that’s come on the market recently. Continue Reading
