While numerous blogs discussing the facelift WordPress 2.7 received (what with new colors, icons and all), the two subtle details I noticed that hint at the shift in philosophy of what WordPress really is and what it plans to offer the end user (in terms of built-in options) were seldom noted. Here’s my brief two cents after using the latest release of WordPress 2.7 from the nightly build on local install.
WordPress has indeed come a long way. Long enough that we went from calling the front end of the blog a template, and then a presentation, and …
When I started helping wpSnap on some of their technical issues last year, I realized that there was a lot of room to improve with the way conditional tags were written and addressed to produce the site that has among other things, featured listings, blogs and other WP themes all meshed into one pile of data in the backend. So when I was asked to redesign1 the site last month, I went a step ahead and offered to redo the backend as well.
The most prolific of issues on wpSnap (and other multi-author sites) seem to have stemmed from a new feature that was rolled into WordPress …
Anatomy of a Magazine Style Premium WordPress Theme - Part 3.2 “Conditional Navigation Menus”
04 19th, 2008 - (2)
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The navigational aspect of a site, especially one that is database driven, should have menus that are dynamically generated as well- just like the rest of the sites content, but is seldom the case. The reason is not the lack of technique, but rather the importance of effective navigation and its attribution to the success of the site as a whole.
A site with poor navigation is just as bad as or worse than a site with poor content. Magazine style themes have overcome this barrier using JavaScript dropdown menus. But there is a simpler yet seldom used method that can be used and …
Anatomy of a Magazine Style Premium WordPress Theme - Part 3.1 “Navigation – Second Level Menu”
02 11th, 2008 - (13)
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This tutorial is running longer than we initially anticipated, we will break section 3 further into sub-sections.
In our ongoing exercise to learn the nuts and bolts of a magazine style WordPress theme, we examine what has become by far the most ignored part of a theme design, the navigation menu.
As important as they are, they are often found floating in the header or worse the sidebar and almost never used to its fullest. Today we will attempt to change that. We are dedicating the next few sections just to discuss navigation menus, its varied uses, and the …
