It’s Time to Use Your Imagination!
Clean, Simple, and Beautiful. The Imagination Premium WordPress theme is the perfect blogging theme to organize and display your content–and it’s the perfect theme for incorporating Google Adsense.
WPforSale New Design
Please excuse our dust around here.
We are updating this website to give you more options and features, as well as a fresh new face for you to look at.
This is One Impressive Magazine Theme | Arthemia Premium WordPress Theme
Here’s an awesome magazine theme! Colorful and well designed.
This is a great looking magazine style premium WordPress theme. The Arthemia Premium theme offers a beautiful layout and lots of functionality.
Developers, Desginers, Bloggers, & More – Something for Everyone!
iThemes has it all!
So much to choose from – iThemes offers a great variety of Premium WordPress Themes. Join the club to get the whole 2008 package, or purchase individual themes. WP themes for designers, developers, photographers, bloggers, ecommerce, and more!
Elegant Themes | A Year’s access for less than $20.00
I just stumbled across this great site: Elegant Themes
It is a membership site with a collection of WordPress Themes.
WordPress Hack | Set Class for Home Page Link
The Problem:
Needed the home page button status to appear active, or in WP terms, as the “current_page_item”. So I need to determine if the page I was on was the home page or not, and if it was, I needed to add a class to it of “current_page_item”.
Solution:
Just a little PHP script does the trick- added into the LI element.
<ul>
<li <?php if (is_home())
echo ‘class=”current_page_item”‘;?>><a href=”<?php echo get_settings(‘home’); ?>/”>Home</a></li>
<?php wp_list_pages(’sort_column=menu_order&depth=1&title_li=’);?>
</ul>
That’s it!
NOTE: Here is a useful plugin to check out and that I am using with the code above: Current-Page-Bugfix
How to include posts within a page using WordPress
Hey everyone. Thought I’d share a solution to a problem I just solved.
I was creating a portfolio of case studies for a client and I want to use the “posts” within WordPress to list the case studies. However, the main menu uses the ‘wp_list_pages’ function, so I cannot interject a “portfolio” category link where I want that link placed within the menu, since it is auto-generated.
This means I could hard-code the portfolio category link at the beginning or end of the menu – but I need it somewhere in the middle, so I devised this workaround.
I have found the best way to do this is through the creation of a page template. This offers you the greatest flexibility, and will also help you learn a bit more about WordPress.
OK – enough blabbing, let’s get started.
- First thing to do is look in your theme folder for a file named page.php – make a copy of it and rename it to an appropriate name – we’ll use Portfolio.php for this example.
- Next, open the new file (portfolio.php) and copy and paste this into your file at the very top (change the name ‘Portfolio’ in the code to the name of your choice – this is the actual name of the template that will be listed when selecting the template from within the Write/Manage Page editor:
<?php
/*
Template Name: Portfolio
*/
?> - We will be pulling all posts from within a single category into this page. Create your new category now, and take note of the category’s ID. If your category already exists, just get its ID.
Note: To find the ID, go to Manage >> Categories and hover your mouse over the Category Name. You will find the ID as the last parameter of the URL in the browsers status bar (bottom-left corner) - Ok, back within the Portfolio.php, we need to replace the default code with new code that will import the posts from the category we’ve created / selected. Here’s how:
- Replace the loop (code varies so I have just included the beginning and ending tags – replace / remove everything between the tags and the tags themselves:
………
<?php endwhile; ?>with this below – where ‘category=[the ID of your category you noted in step 3]‘:
<?php
$lastposts = get_posts('category=3');
foreach($lastposts as $post) :
setup_postdata($post);
?>
<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<?php the_content(); ?>
<?php endforeach; ?> - Save the template.
- Create / Select the page you want to import the posts within – you should be in the page editor
- From within the page editor, under the Page Template dropdown, select ‘Portfolio’
- Publish / Save the page.
- Create posts under your selected category, if they are nor already present.
- Go to the front-end of your website and locate your new page. You should see the page displaying the posts you have created from within your selected category.
- As for placing the page’s link in the menu – just set your page order for the page.
That’s it. Pretty cool, huh?
WordPress templates are easy to create and offer you tons of flexibility.
Obviously, you can place any code you like in a template. The above is just an example of including the posts from a specific category. There are more option at WordPress.org.
Kickass Form Plugin for WordPress
OK – I am not sure when Contact Form 7 hit the scene, but it is incredibly flexible and, quite frankly, kickass.
Why?
- you can create multiple forms for your site – you’re not relegated to just using one contact form to meet all your objectives
- you can add html and CSS directly into the form, thru the management page
- Easy to install on a page – just cut and paste a single line of code
- It’s free!
I just stumbled on this software for a need I have with a client’s website. It is the perfect solution.
Hope it may help you too!
Again – Here is the link: Contact Form 7
WordPress on Crack – Broken Link
Hello,
I apologize for anyone wanting to purchase the “WordPress on Crack” product. Seems the affiliate I signed under went AWOL. Anyways. I contacted the author and we got it fixed.
I haven’t received a response from anyone on the original post, asking if anybody has tried this product, so I decided to purchase the software and try it out myself.
First impression? Good stuff! Worth $97.00 to me because I like to see how things are done by experts. I suppose I could thumb my way thru the WP docs, but I honestly do not have the time. This video has allowed me to learn the basics of writing a plugin – and I have just watched the first one .
There are 7 total video tutorials with full code. And the tutorials are actually useful – something you may want to add to your WP site.
The first video has given me an understanding however of how simple it is to “hook” into WP and create a plugin. The more I learn about WordPress, the more I love it!
Stay tuned for more posts on this or check out this page.
Thank you MediaCore Studios for the plug!
I have to thank Carlos at MediaCoreStudios for the nice post regarding WPforSale.com.
It’s so cool how people can come into your life at just the right time and Carlos is one of those people. Carlos initially contacted me a couple of weeks ago to make me aware of his CelebrityPress Theme. I thought his theme was beautiful so I was happy to share it with all of you. We were emailing each other back and forth about some different things (like using e-junkie) and just hit it off. Since then we have become friends and are actually now collaborating on a new WordPress Theme together. You will hear more about this very soon – I promise.
Again, thank you Carlos for the kind words. Very appreciated!
