Basil has requested that I take down the previous post regarding the whole ‘legal’ dispute. Personally I think this is a shame as it was interesting and it had interest- I’m sure there will be people in the same position in the future, so it would almost be advice for them. Read more…

If you’re ever in need of getting options, whether it’s those on the WordPress Dashboard or ones you’ve created by yourself, WordPress has a very easy, very simple built in function. get_option() gets any option in the database. Say you need to grab the posts to display per page (in the Settings>Reading admin page), you simply put:

<?php echo get_option('posts_per_page'); ?>

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Handy tip for the day!

Here are the top articles from this week in my famous RSS feeds Read more…

So for a current project I am using pages to create a bi-lingual site. I needed to check which menu to display, as it depended upon what the top level page was- english or french. I searched a bit, and found that there was no is_subpage or is_tree function, so I set out to make my own. How I did it, after the break! Read more…

Just a quick tip for today- fixing pagination when using query_posts. The scenario. You’re using WordPress for your entire site, and hav a portfolio page and a testimonials page that both use posts to fill them. That’s all and good, however you’re excluding them from your Blog page using query_posts to modify what comes out of your Loop. You’ve got it working, but when you troubleshoot, you can’t go back a page! Oh no! You Google around and find this page… Read more…

I originally created this theme way back when I had just started using WordPress- I borrowed Andrew Viklund’s CSS template, and turned it into a WordPress theme. Hah. The code, when I re-opened it to make necessary updates was, needless to say, a nice laugh. How n00bish was it!?Anyway, I have updated the theme to use 2.7, screenshot and more information after the break! Read more…