Month: June 2010
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Screencast #4 – Creating a WordPress Theme – Part 2
In part two of this tutorial I show you how to finish off creating a basic WordPress theme, demonstrating the creation of a single post page as well as looking at how the commenting system works. Also in the video is how to create custom page templates and then apply them to different pages, as…
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Screencast #3 – Creating a WordPress Theme – Part 1
In part one of this tutorial I show you how to get started creating a WordPress theme, explaining all about the core files and how WordPress works. I’ll show you how to install WordPress and how to convert existing markup into a theme. In the tutorial I develop a theme named “Curiosity” – the markup…
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Using absolute and relative positioning
Now to many people this might be a really simple concept, that is the concept of using absolute and relative positioning; but I remember when I started web design I wasn’t really sure what either meant. So this article is aimed at explaining why you might want to use the two properties in conjunction with…
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Publishing to WordPress from outside the admin panel
Note: This article has been marked for a quality review and will soon be updated. I recently finished up a theme for which I had to allow users to post to WordPress from outside the admin panel. Now at first you may wonder why anyone would want to do such a thing, but let me…
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Why Facebook is potentially fatal
So that’s a rather brash title isn’t it? Well I feel that a subject like this needs to be met with outright forwardness and it is for this reason that I am writing this article. Now this isn’t an article bashing Facebook or it’s recently changed privacy settings, its about the people that use it.…