Archive for the ‘WordPress’ Category

How to use the gallery in WP 2.5

2 posts ago I sort of skimmed this topic and while I got just one response I figured my post was vague enough for a do over.
That post wasn’t intended to be a How-To post but more of a heads up. I had not found any reasonable documentation of how to use image.php,myself. Matt [...]

Site redesign and a muddle

I often design websites for my friends and they usually just let me do whatever I want and keep their traps shut knowing they are getting 2500 dollars worth of work for free.
But once in awhile they dare to utter a preference such as the time when I made this theme for a friend and [...]

WordPress 2.5’s secret weapon is image.php

*Updated due to vagueness!
Image.php is a new file included in the default theme that comes
with WP 2.5 and that you can use to have a light-weight image gallery built right into your theme,no plugin required.
Image.php uses new template tags to display thumbnails of the next and previous images underneath the one main image. This [...]

Static Frontpage as Home Page in WP

You all must be familiar by now that in WP versions 2.1 and newer we are able to set a static WordPress Page as the Frontpage if we choose to in dashboard>options>reading.
This has been invaluable for WordPress as a CMS users. And I’ve used it practically each time I set up a new installation.Sometimes the [...]