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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Add the_post_thumbnail to post excerpts

Wordpress 2.9 has a new post thumbnail feature that I’ve been exploring as part of this site’s layout in preparation for updates to some client sites. Adding the code below to your child theme’s functions.php file will activate the post thumbnail feature in WP2.9, then change the default content display on the home page or [...]

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Remove sidebar

Add this function to functions.php to remove the sidebar from a Thematic child theme (either globally or conditionally): // Remove sidebars from feature template function remove_sidebar() { // We test if we are on the page template 'Feature' if (is_page_template('feature.php')) { // Yes, we are .. now we switch off the sidebar return FALSE; } else { // we are not .. we [...]

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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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Why your meeting request just ruined my day

A coworker passed along a link to an interesting article, "Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule", yesterday. Essentially the author identifies two ways of approaching the schedule of a working day, which he calls the manager’s schedule and the maker’s schedule.

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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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