Category Archives: Miscellaneous

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.
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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.
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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.
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Where’s My Theme File?

By Devin | Published: June 14, 2010
With WordPress 3.0 multisite and the rise of child theming, it's sometimes tricky to know which function is appropriate to call the css file or template file that's needed in a theme. Here's some common examples and best practices.
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Theme Mash Up of 2010 and Canvas

By Devin | Published: May 25, 2010
I've been experimenting a lot with Canvas by Woo Themes, and decided to do a mash up of it with the new WordPress theme 2010. I think it takes some of the best elements of both, the design of 2010 and the strong options panel and templates of Canvas.
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Texture Pattern

By Devin | Published: April 7, 2010
This repeatable background texture was built off a photo I took in Antigua, Guatemala. You can use any of the tiled images below, or download the .psd and make your own colors. No attribution needed.
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Signing up With BlueHost

By Devin | Published: February 17, 2010
I use BlueHost for all my personal website hosting. In the last six years I’ve received excellent customer support and rarely had downtime on my site. At $6.95 a month it’s one of the cheapest options out there, it’s great for WordPress, and it should cover the needs of most small to medium size companies. [...]
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Screencast Tutorial for Gallery Shortcode

By Devin | Published: February 11, 2010
A lot of people rely on plug-ins like NextGen to display images on their website, but the built-in WordPress gallery actually works quite well for most situations. Here's a short video tutorial explaining how to use it.
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Dynamic Body Classes for WordPress Styling

By Devin | Published: December 7, 2009
This post is about dynamic classes for WordPress themes, which will help with the individual styling for different categories, pages, and browsers.
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Using Flutter to Create Portfolio Pages

By Devin | Published: September 20, 2009
Creating a portfolio site with WordPress generally involves having to manually enter all your image links into custom fields. I wondered if this process could be a bit more automated using the Flutter plug-in.
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