While you no longer need to use custom fields to help show post images they are still an extremely useful tool for theme developers. They can be used for all manner of different things, from displaying favorite films to showing what products a design is available on. In this tutorial we are going to look at how to use them.
Despite being a very useful feature in WordPress I have noticed that, in my experience, some WordPress users don’t know they exist. Here we take a quick look at why conditionals are, what they are used for, and even show a small example.
A very popular way of displaying posts on a media heavy site is with a post thumbnail grid. This shows a grid of posts with their relevant thumbnails, you can even show the title & show a snippet from the excerpt. Let’s take a look at how it’s done.
This is a little bit of a niche post, but it’s all about a problem I had recently with my site. It was all to do with WordPress and how it responded when running under PHP as FastCGI instead of CGI.
There are lots of websites hosted on shared hosting in this age, and the majority are probably running WordPress. While it’s a great application once set up with plugins it isn’t the lightest one on the block. Here we are going to look at making WordPress as shared server friendly as possible.
A great idea for some WordPress blogs is to have a related posts widget. However they generally require a plugin to work & too many plugins can slow down even the leanest (and most optimized) WordPress blog. Here is a great alternative to using a plugin.
Using AJAX in WordPress can be a tricky business. I’ve already explained how to use it in previous tutorials here on Return True, however after several requests I’ve finally made a video tutorial to give a more detailed explanation.
There has been a few people contact me recently on exactly how to setup and/or use my plugin Twitter Stream. To clear it up here is a video tutorial on how to go through setup, and set the options for the widget.
Sometimes you want to add some code into the head of your WordPress blog. Normally you’d just hard code it, but what if it’s dynamic or you just want to keep your theme files uncluttered from PHP. Here’s how to do it.
At first glance this looks pointless, just use the [gallery] shortcode, but there are times when you want more customization than the gallery shortcode allows for. In this tutorial we will look at how to get all the images attached to a post without a plugin.
It's late here in the UK but it's the 30th so a big Happy Birthday to @Y_Strahovski loads of hugs 'n kisses, hope you have a great day. - 10 hours ago
Wow! Jeffster are awesome and @Y_Strahovski has one hell of a throwing arm, lol. http://yfrog.us/n8b8xz (via @kentuckysocal) - 6 days ago
@AshBob87 No worries. Glad I could help out. ;) - 6 days ago
@AshBob87 No problem. I just found it a few seconds ago. Was sitting in my bookmarks all along. *facepalm* http://bit.ly/cI9cQS - 6 days ago
@AshBob87 Thanks. ;) I can't find the tutorial I followed anymore. :( - 6 days ago
