Justin Tadlock

I’ve enjoyed playing around with jQuery so much lately that I’ve decided to take on another project with this useful library — a new WordPress theme, of course.
I typically try to stick to XHTML, CSS, and PHP, but I need to branch out a little. Sure, I used jQuery on the Visionary [...]

Visionary has a new home!
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Theme Information:

Description: A theme for news/magazine sites. It includes built-in video features that easily allow you to add videos to your site.
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Features

Customized front page to look like a news or magazine site.
Sidebar tabbed navigation through the use of a custom [...]

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 of hassle. Basically, this is a simple, customized related posts script. It checks to see whether [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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. [...]