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JQuery, Cufon and WordPress

Just at the moment the best font replacement technique around is cufón – so how to get this technique into your WordPress theme design?

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Multiple WordPress Queries – Duplicates

You’ve got 2,3,4… custom post queries on a page and you need to get some control over duplicates – it looks unprofessional if your theme keeps showing the same stuff. Let’s take the example of displaying separately posts from 2 different categories – but if a post is in both categories, not duplicated across the [...]

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WordPress, Twitter and URL-shortening

You’re producing a WordPress theme, or plugin, that is related to Twitter and for obvious reasons you want to include url-shortening functionality… How’s it, generally, done?
Just the briefest snippet of PHP, this example for is.gd:-

function shorten_url($url) {
$request = 'http://is.gd/api.php?longurl=' . $url;
return @file_get_contents($request);
}

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WordPress Custom Category Archives

Note, we’re talking here about different category archive pages – not having a post page customised according to the category that post is in….
There’s 2 ways of doing this – first, the simple way, for more minor changes to the overall theme template, you can use the is_category function:

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WordPress Twitter Integration

Publicity, relationship-building, just plain keeping in touch – Twitter offers it all and the art is to integrate your tweeting into your blogging, if that doesn’t sound too salacious. Here’s a few scattered suggestions on the subject.
First up, to begin at the beginning, reply to @’s – I know it’s absolutely bleedin’ obvious, but if [...]

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WordPress Themes Help

Running your own WordPress is a big deal now, lots of people want to get in on the action. We get about 50-80 email requests a week for help with installing and customising free themes (ours and others) – so, simple fact is, if we replied and worked through them all, we wouldn’t have a [...]

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More WordPress and jQuery

To refine a previous post on WordPress and jQuery and the use of the wp_enqueue_script function, its paths and dependencies.
As a barebones example, this is how we do it when we we’re enqueueing – if that’s a word – the jQuery Cycle plugin, so that we can make a slideshow on the page.

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WordPress Themes and CSS Rounded Corners

The efficient method of producing rounded corners on a block element is to use CSS.
All 4 corners:
-moz-border-radius: 3px;
-khtml-border-radius: 3px;
-webkit-border-radius: 3px;
Applying to, respectively, Gecko browsers (Firefox) – Konqueror – Webkit browsers (Safari, Chrome).

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WordPress and Gumblar – a significant problem

You’ve got a problem – all your WordPress pages show an error message something like this
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare xfm() (previously declared in /path/to/site/index.php(1) : eval()’d code:1)
in /xxx/yyy/site/wp-config.php(1) : eval()’d code on line 1
the eval()’d code is the significant part.
So you have a look – and you’ve got a whole heap of rubbish in all [...]

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WordPress Themes and Tables, Shock, Horror

Having recently been taken to task by a punter who berates our poor suffering HTML designer for daring to use tables in some of our WordPress themes, maybe best not to say which ones…
There does seem to be an attitude that tables = evil, without even stopping to think.
Our correspondent has missed the point. [...]

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