You will be familiar with wordpress themes with featured post sliders on the home page. I have a created quite a lot of them which you can find here. The sliders on those templates display posts with images from any category specified. Recently I got and email from a theme user asking if it is possible to show pages on these slider instead of posts. So I thought I will make a screencast of how to do it and post it so that it will useful for others as well. The reference material for this modification is available in the  [ Read More ]

Introduction of custom navigation menu system is a highlight of the WordPress 3 release. This gives the theme users so much freedom to configure the navigation menu without touching a single piece of code. Now it will be possible to arrange menu items and configure the hierarchy of the menu items on a fly. Web2feel themes created prior to the WordPress 3 release will not have this feature enabled on them. So you wont be able to configure the menu items on those themes through the custom menu interface. So I decided to make a screencast explaining how one can  [ Read More ]

Every blogger in the blogosphere is aware of the Google’s tracking service , Google Analytics. It is an essential tool to monitor the site traffic details and performance statistics. Anybody can setup an analytics account for free with their Google account. Users will be a given a unique js tracking snippet, which can be inserted to the website. When it comes to WordPress blogs, there are numerous plugins available for enabling analytics tracking on the blog. But here we are going to see how to add the analytics script to the site template, ideally to the footer using your functions.php  [ Read More ]

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 code to your theme function.php file. It will return first 100 words of post’s content. function new_excerpt_length($length)  [ Read More ]

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 writing  [ Read More ]