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Visionary: WordPress Theme

Visionary: WordPress Theme

By Justin Tadlock on November 4, 2007

This theme has been discontinued. Check out ThemeHybrid.com for the new themes.
Features

Customized front page to look like a news or magazine site.
Sidebar tabbed navigation through the use of a custom jQuery script (jQuery is packaged with the theme).
Embed YouTube, Google Video, and Metacafe videos easily with Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict. Or, use [...]

Tagged WordPress, WordPress Themes | 515 Responses

WordPress Custom Fields: Listing A Series Of Posts

By Justin Tadlock on November 1, 2007

This is an updated version of this article. If you’re looking for the older version, see page 2.
Do you write long series of posts? Do you have a bunch of articles that definitely need to be linked together? This WordPress custom fields technique will allow you to do that without a lot [...]

Tagged Custom Fields, WordPress | 41 Responses

Simplest WordPress Contact Form

By Justin Tadlock on October 29, 2007

I’ve been scouring the WordPress plugin pages, other blogs, and the Web in general looking for a decent contact form that works with WordPress. Nope, not a one to be found.
Well, I’m sure there is one, but I haven’t found it yet.
Every plugin I found was easy to implement, but didn’t seem to flow [...]

Tagged Page Template, WordPress, WordPress Hacks | 15 Responses

WordPress Custom Fields: Adding Images To Posts

WordPress Custom Fields: Adding Images To Posts

By Justin Tadlock on October 27, 2007

This tutorial will explain how to add images to your posts using WordPress custom fields. It is the third part of the Using WordPress Custom Fields Series. This tutorial assumes you at least know what XHTML, PHP, CSS, and WordPress are. Plus, you should know how to input a custom field [...]

Tagged Custom Fields, WordPress, WordPress Tutorials | 106 Responses

Using WordPress Custom Fields: Introduction

By Justin Tadlock on October 24, 2007

I decided a couple of weeks ago that I wanted to do an ongoing tutorial series with WordPress custom fields. At first, I thought I’d simply write a complete guide, but that idea seemed daunting. It seems far easier to break down the guide into individual posts in a series. Instead of [...]

Tagged Custom Fields, WordPress | 103 Responses

Creative Control: Flash Video Player Plugin

By Justin Tadlock on October 23, 2007

I finally found the perfect flash video player: Flash Video Player Plugin for WordPress.
This thing has more options than anything I’ve ever seen. It even lets you add a logo over the video. I particularly like the floating controls it offers. Plus, everything can be overwritten for each video you post [...]

Tagged links, Online, WordPress | 4 Responses

Valid XHTML Clickable Header Images

By Justin Tadlock on October 22, 2007

This is a tutorial on how to make your blog or website header image clickable with valid XHTML. This is assuming that you’re using a CSS background image for your header or that you want to.
I was recently designing a theme that I wanted to add a clickable header image to, but had forgotten [...]

Tagged css, Tutorials, WordPress, XHTML | 17 Responses

Magtastic: WordPress Theme

Magtastic: WordPress Theme

By Justin Tadlock on October 20, 2007

Theme Information:

Description: A 920px, fixed-width, 2-column, widget-ready theme. Its focus is for fun news blogs and sites. Features a custom home page, sidebars, and templates.
Requirement(s): Wordpress 2.1+
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Free header image:
The first 20 people that request it, will get a free header image customized by me. Nothing complicated, [...]

Tagged WordPress, WordPress Themes | 39 Responses

Using WordPress Custom Fields: Subtitles

By Justin Tadlock on October 16, 2007

This article, or series of articles, is long overdue. I’ve been using custom fields to make “little” fixes around this site for a while now. They are probably the most powerful feature of WordPress, yet the least used. Maybe that’s because they’re hidden away at the bottom of the “Write” page. [...]

Tagged Custom Fields, seo, template tags, WordPress | 19 Responses

Managing WordPress Tags

By Justin Tadlock on October 14, 2007

Do you input 50 different tags to compliment your post?
Use “blog,” “blogs,” and “blogging” as a tag every time you post?
List “WordPress” as a tag simply because you’re using that blogging platform?
Add random things that have nothing to do whatsoever with the content of your post itself as a tag?
Put flashes of thought or sudden [...]

Tagged ags, WordPress | 8 Responses

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