On many of mine or other magazine type of WordPress themes, you would see the homepage displaying blocks of post excerpts. These excerpts are generated using the template tag <?php the_excerpt(); ?> By default this template tag returns the first 55 words of the post’s content. This teaser is generated only if you have not specified any custom excerpt from your post editor section. But what if you want to display more than 55 words on your excerpts? Simple, just add the following...
Since the release of WordPress 2.9, themes released by web2feel are using a new feature to enable thumbnails on featured posts and post excerpts etc. Earlier we have been using the Timthumb script from Darrenhoyt.com. This involved creating a customfield and applying the required image url to it. But with the release of WordPress 2.9 we have a new feature called the_post_thumbnail feature. This enables us to add a thumbnail image to any of our post from the post editor itself. Yes, we do not...
Christmas is here. This occasion always brings an unexplainable joy to our hearts. Everybody relates themselves to Christmas in their own ways. To me it is about a lots of cakes, wine, greetings, carols etc..lol.. This time there is one more thing, that is Christmas niche WordPress themes. I did a search for Christmas themes across many sites and found that the number is much less compared to last year. I myself did only one theme and it was a white label design and it is listed among below. Following...
Normally on a blog every post is styled uniform. But wont you think it would be nice if you could style these posts differently. One way to do it is to retrieve the post-ID and then apply style to it. But it is a painstaking process and you would have to repeat the css edit every time a new post is made. Here I am concentrating on a different method. It is by exploiting the post_class(); feature added to WordPress since 2.7. The post loop markup using post_class(); features is given below. <div>...
I am a PC user and I like it, but at the same time I miss some cool editors like Coda or Textmate which are made for Mac OS X. I am using Notepad++ since I began coding themes. It is a free, source code editor with GPL license and it supports a wide array of languages. That includes html, php, css, javascript, xml etc, which coders primarily work with. If you are a wordpress coder, you would know that there are so many things you have to repeat everytime you create a new template. Let that be the...
