WordPress

Another WordPress theme

Posted in: Websites, WordPress by koolkat on March 3, 2010 | No Comments

As part of the team working on a relaunch of OnPoint Urgent Care on a WordPress platform, my role was to design the theme. My role consisted of creating a lot of CSS as well as implementing the jQuery used in the drop down menus and slide show.

WordPress comments

Posted in: Websites, WordPress by koolkat on December 27, 2009 | No Comments

I finally have my #WordPress comments working as planned – with avatars and threads!

Still Delving into WordPress

Posted in: Websites, WordPress by koolkat on December 18, 2009 | No Comments

In order to augment my use of menus in #WordPress, I have been using the Page Lists Plus plugin. One of its features is to allow the anchor tag to be removed from the current page. This works fine except when the current page is the posts page. Since the plugin looks for the post ID ($post->ID), what gets returned is the id of the first post on the page and not the actual posts page! The solution to check and see if your current post is a page or a post. If its a post, then get the page ID for the posts:

if ($post->post_type == 'post') {
$currID = get_option('page_for_posts');
}
else {
$currID = $post->ID;
}

I know it seems simple but it took me awhile to figure it out.

WordPress

Posted in: Websites, WordPress by koolkat on | No Comments

I have been experimenting with #WordPress – learning how to create child themes and using “add_filter ” and “add_action” functions. I started with the thematic theme to see if I could take its very generic appearance and change it around. Although it did not bring my experiment to a complete theme creation, I now know how to proceed on any project requiring child themes.