Rotaract Theme Released
A Rotaract version of the Rotary WordPress theme has been released. This theme sports the Rotaract Colors and logo. See the Eastside Rotaract site for an example implementation. To learn more visit http://bbrcwebsite.com/.
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Watch your WordPress Permalinks
A client recently informed me that some of the blog posts were getting 404 errors. I set about to investigate the issue and discovered that the client was indeed correct. The permalink settings were set to post name, so I just tried re-saving the settings, which often fixes these kind of problems. This time, myWatch your WordPress Permalinks See the full project…
SummaUSA launches
Just completed development work for Blue Sky Projects to revamp the SummaUSA website. The site was completed using WordPress along with the SHOPP e-commerce plugin.
Creating a Child Theme
I recently worked on a small project designed to promote a book of Cartoon Elephants. The project had a small budget so we decided to purchase a theme. I selected http://themeforest.net/item/rythm-one-page-responsive-wordpress-theme/3672895 as its one-page responsive format was ideal for the site. However, its style was nothing like how a site devoted to a book ofCreating a Child Theme See the full project…
Using jQuery datatables with WordPress and AJAX
I have been working on a project requiring the use of jQuery Datatables. This jQuery plugin creates a table layout of data that can be sorted, filtered and dynamically updated. It is capable of getting data via AJAX which makes it very usable in a WordPress site. I am using datatables as part of aUsing jQuery datatables with Wordpress and AJAX See the full project…
GitHub
I finally started using GitHub and created my first pull request. My prior experience with version control was with SVN so I was a bit nervous – wondering if I would break the original. Of course, nothing broke and now I am a fan. I also tried out the free mac app which helped withGitHub See the full project…
Going Repsonsive
I finally got around to updating my own website to have a responsive layout for phones and tablets. In order to achieve the desired result, I spent considerable time trying to retrofit my site to the responsive world. I very quickly learned why many experts say to design for mobile first. I simplified the workGoing Repsonsive See the full project…
Getting Sassy with WordPress Part 2 – Sprites
In Getting Sassy with WordPress Part 1, we discussed how to manage using Compass and SASS for your WordPress project. Now we can take our use of Compass one step further and start using image sprites. Image sprites have been used in CSS for quite some time, lending efficiency to both our stylesheets and downloads.Getting Sassy with WordPress Part 2 – Sprites See the full project…
Getting Sassy with WordPress Part 1
For a while now, there has been a lot of talk about CSS pre-processors such as LESS and SASS. As the the details of how such pre-processors work as well as their benefits and drawback have been discussed many places, I will not discuss that here. Instead, I will focus on how I use SASSGetting Sassy with WordPress Part 1 See the full project…
Helping the Client with Advanced Custom Fields
The Patricia Rovzar Gallery uses a custom WordPress theme which allows the gallery to maintain its current artists and exhibits. The gallery updates its featured artists on a monthly basis. While the site handled the image updates easily, the gallery was struggling with correctly formatting the text on the home page. The situation is complicated byHelping the Client with Advanced Custom Fields See the full project…
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