Category Archives: Development Notes

Creating a thumbnail index page from child pages

One of the features of my latest project, Contempora Corner, was the creation of a custom page template that is used as an visual index page for a specific category of content. These are essentially landing pages with links to all of the respective child pages. I try to organize sites to not use these [...]

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Rebuilding Thematic Feature Site with the_post_thumbnail

Anyone who’s stopped by this site more than once in the past year knows that it’s been in a constant state of change as I try out new functions, plugins or other functionality. That said, I’m really hoping to stabilize things on the back end and move most of my scratchpad work to a test [...]

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Custom functionality in tabbed widgets

I recently made a number of updates to a client site that I’d done last year. Part of the initial design of this particular site called for a number of tabbed “widgets”. However, when the site was originally implemented, I was not able to find a suitable tabbed interface option within the library of WP [...]

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Adding Mega Menus to Wordpress

What does it take to replace the jQuery dropdown menus in the popular Wordpress framework, Thematic, with a multi-category, multi-column "mega menu" structure? Part 1 of this topic examines a possible jQuery-based solution and outlines some basic integration choices.

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A “fix” to PhatFusion’s Image Menu script

I’m using phatfusion’s Image Menu script on a new client project. It’s a pretty cool script, using a set of images to build a horizontal menu that expands and collapses as you rollover each image.

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Converting a Typepad blog to Wordpress

A recent client launch involved moving a blog from Typepad to Wordpress, including everything from content to site design. While the latter was relatively trivial to rebuild, I would not have been able to convert the content without a set of instructions found on foliovision’s website.

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