Author Archives: Devin

How to Upload Images to WordPress

By Devin | Published: August 30, 2010
This is a video tutorial showing how to upload your photos and other images into WordPress posts and pages. It explains how to align images to the left or right, how to add a caption, and how to display multiple images in a gallery.
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How to Make an Events Custom Post Type

By Devin | Published: August 20, 2010
A tutorial showing step by step instructions on how to set up a basic custom post type for events.
Posted in Miscellaneous | 7 Comments

How to Add a Metabox to a Custom Post Type

By Devin | Published: August 5, 2010
A tutorial explaining how to build custom meta boxes to be used with different post types.
Posted in Custom Post Types | 9 Comments

Adding Columns to the WP Edit Pages

By Devin | Published: July 31, 2010
A couple weeks ago I released a Portfolio Theme that uses custom post types. The featured image is a key component of the post type, I wanted a way to display it from the post dashboard- along with the title, taxonomy, author, comments, and post date.
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Browser Body Classes in WordPress

By Devin | Published: July 20, 2010
You should be able to add this code to any WordPress site. It extends the default body classes to include browser detection. So, if you want to add a specific style for IE6, you can just class it like .ie6 #mydiv { }. I think it's much more elegant than pulling up multiple stylesheets for all the different browsers.
Posted in WordPress Tips | 4 Comments

How to Edit the Text of Any Website

By Devin | Published: July 19, 2010
If you type the following javascript code snippet into your navigation bar, you should be able to edit any text on the page. Also includes video demonstration.
Posted in Miscellaneous | 2 Comments

Portfolio Theme

By Devin | Published: July 17, 2010
I'm proud to announce a new html5 portfolio theme. It uses custom post types for portfolio pages, takes advantage of the new menu navigation, and includes a ton of neat features.
Posted in Custom Post Types, Featured | 46 Comments

Woo Real Estate Speculation

By Devin | Published: July 15, 2010
Woo Themes announced that they are coming out with a Real Estate theme in the next 6-8 weeks. I know there's a huge need for this- because I've built one based off the Canvas framework for a client. Here's a screencast showing the theme.
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Custom Post Type Resources

By Devin | Published: July 1, 2010
The ability to create custom post types was a great feature added in WordPress 2.9 and then expanded in 3.0. It allows us to add and label completely different types of content than the standard "Pages" and "Posts" we're all used to. To get started with this, here's my recommended list of links and resources.
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Custom Post Types with Woo Themes

By Devin | Published: July 1, 2010
These code snippets will build a video post type with a taxonomy, complete with custom meta boxes adding additional information specific to the post type in Canvas.
Posted in Miscellaneous | 2 Comments