Browsing articles for: December, 2008

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Making A Template Using The Attached Image Plugin

On 12.27.2008 by Paul Robinson | no comments

Right, I’m back after my christmas break & since I had a barrage of emails asking how to make it, I thought I’d show you how to make the layout shown in the screenshot for my new plugin the_attached_image(). Remember it’s a WordPress theme so you don’t need a huge amount of PHP knowledge, but [...]

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WordPress Plugin: The Attached Image

On 12.20.2008 by Paul Robinson | 506 comments

What’s This Then? The Attached Image is a simple plugin that packs quite a punch. It shows the first image attached to the current post. For example. If you have your home page set to 5 posts and you use this plugin it will show the first image attached to each of those posts. For [...]

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Creating A On-The-Fly Sortable Table With PHP, MySQL & jQuery

On 12.19.2008 by Paul Robinson | 20 comments

So a few people have contacted me asking me how to create a table that sorts without contacting the MySQL server again. Well it’s simple, I use a extremely powerful jQuery plugin called TableSorter 2.0 made for jQuery by Christian Bach. The hard part is integrating it into your data which is probably generated by [...]

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How To Show An Image For Each Category In A WordPress Blog

On 12.14.2008 by Paul Robinson | no comments

So a few people have asked me how I get those little category tabs on the left of each post to show up. Well I’m going to tell you. It actually quite simple & there is probably a better way to do it, but I like my way & it works quite well for being [...]

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Fixing jQuery Validator Plugin In Internet Explorer 6

On 12.12.2008 by Paul Robinson | 18 comments

Ok, so I was writing some validation code to stop empty submition of a form in a quiz/servey I was building for Natural Tys. The easiest was to do client side validation is by using the excellent Javascript frameworks that are available. My personal favourite is jQuery which has a excellent validation plugin available, you [...]

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Using WP_Query() to make custom queries within WordPress templates

On 12.07.2008 by Paul Robinson | 26 comments

Well I was going to change to blog as I mentioned a while ago, but I’ve been very busy and haven’t had time yet. Keep a look out after Christmas though and things should start to change then. Until then though here is a little tutorial for all you WordPress users. Using WordPress is relatively [...]