Devin Price
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Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Green Building Consulting WebsiteThanks for all the feedback! I’ll try out a few more background colors / textures and see if I can find something that matches a little better. Thinking about a blue tone or wood texture.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Thoughts? Scout’s Site, safe, simple, share, informYou don’t have any titles. This is bad for search engines and for when you bookmark a page. You should have some code like this in your header, before </head>.
<title><?php bloginfo('name'); ?> <?php wp_title(); ?></title>You could also try installing the All in One SEO Pack plug-in.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: New Default WordPress Theme?I would like to see a similar layout and structure to Thematic- but without the hooks and filters. A new user should be able to go into the template files and see well documented examples of how everything works.
I know that theme options add extra code and complexity- but I think a well coded options array with commented examples of how to add more items would really spur development in this area. I think the reason most theme authors don’t have options is because a lack of well-coded examples and documentation. I would suggest having an option to change the layout of the home page from a standard date ordered list of posts to a “feature site” (and clearly explain in the documentation how to do this).
When the new theme is released, I think us designers and developers should have a raft of child themes ready to go. Everyone one of us that cares about how the default theme looks could personalize it to whatever we want, highlighting the amazing abilities of child themes and css. Everyone could have their own ideas incorporated rather than having to haggle over whether the sidebar should be on the right or the left, or what type of font to use.
ww.wp.xz.cn could include all these child themes in the repository. There might even be an option from the download page that allows you to view the child themes when downloading the parent theme. This would allow us all to put our own individual spin on the project and make sure that everyone isn’t using the same boring default theme (and yes, the default theme should be a little bit boring).
This is an awesome discussion and I’m looking forward to what we all come up with.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How do I isolate the homepage?I don’t quite understand the set up, but would this work?
if (is_front_page() || is_home()) { wp_list_pages ("include=675, 72, 129, 175&title_li="); }Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Snap Shot ThemeForum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: How might I conditionally theme a Single Post?This article might answer your question: http://mattmedia.net/2007/10/09/how-to-set-up-custom-wordpress-category-templates-in-four-easy-steps/
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Custom Write PanelsI owe you a beer.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: simple dynamic body ID/classThematic already has a function written for semantic body classes. You could borrow that code rather than writing it from scratch. I have a post about how to implement it: http://wordpresstheming.com/2009/12/dynamic-body-classes-wordpress-styling/
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Custom PHP stylesheetSounds like this link might help:
http://clark-technet.com/2009/09/wordpress-theme-dev-tip-dynamic-stylesheets
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Thematic themeHave you clicked under the appearance tab in the dashboard on “Widgets”? The thematic sidebar places defaults in the primary and secondary aside, but as soon as you drag different widgets in it will replace the defaults.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Exclude Pages from Nav Bar IssueI’m not quite following the function. Why wouldn’t you just replace it with <?php wp_list_pages();?>?
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Seperating Posts in Page templates using CategoriesYou should post this in the Woo Themes forum.
Where is says:
query_posts("cat=".$GLOBALS['ex_pf']."&paged=$paged");Change it to:
query_posts("cat=8&paged=$paged");Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Printing data for three custom formsSet up your WordPress site with the three pages.
You can use page templates to have three different designs. Just select those templates for the pages you want. (Read: http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Pages on “Creating Your Own Page Templates”.)
To display your data, write functions in your plugin that will return the data. Then put that function call somewhere in the page template.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Seperating Posts in Page templates using CategoriesYou can create a page template for the landing page and then use the query_posts to display them. For photography (category 8), you would have something like:
<?php //The Query query_posts('posts_per_page=5&cat=8'); //The Loop if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); .. endwhile; else: .. endif; //Reset Query wp_reset_query(); ?>And just in case you wanted to have your portfolio items as pages rather than posts:
<?php $portfolio_items = get_pages('child_of=48&numberposts=4&sort_column=post_date&sort_order=desc'); foreach($portfolio_items as $post) : setup_postdata($post); ?> <p>Whatever you want to display</p> <?php endforeach; ?>Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: redirecting feed to feedburnerI wrote a tutorial for using Feedburner and WordPress for Podcasting. It includes a link to a plug-in that allows you to burn multiple feeds from your blog, so that you can have them separate.