I earlier this week, one of our clients wanted a better solution to getting his latest tweet from Twitter than simply using an RSS widget it WordPress to grab the feed. We could have simply used a plugin, but this site is HUGE, and we didn’t want to depend on Joe Pluginmaker to keep his code clean and up to date, so we went about doing it the old fashioned way: PHP. Click to read more…
5 Useful WordPress Template Tags
Even if you work with the absolute best in premium WordPress themes, you will undoubtedly find that you need some additional/different functions than the theme has build it. A great resource that is built in to WordPress is template tags. A template tag is basically just a way to display information. Below, I have compiled a few of the many tags that I find particularly useful. Click to read more…
WordPress 101
Everyone has to start somewhere. It really wasn’t all that long ago that I was starting out on WordPress, and didn’t know a thing. Even worse was a few months in to it, when I knew just enough to be dangerous. Click to read more…
Customer Service from Best Buy
Here is the story:
I, like the brilliant guy that I am, dropped my iPhone headphones on the ground and rolled over one of the earbuds with my rolly-chair. This happened a few weeks ago, but I decided last week I wanted to replace them before I went to Atlanta. So the night before my flight, I went to Best Buy and bought myself a set of $40 Apple headphones for the iPhone. I get home and open the box, and out falls a GROSS pair of USED IPOD headphones. I checked the box again, and not only did it not say iPod, it didn’t say used either. According to the box, I should have received a NEW pair of IPHONE headphones. You can imagine my frustration. Click to read more…
Two Column Lists Using HTML
I know there are a million methods of breaking a list into two columns, but many of them involve additions to the CSS or new tables to be created. But I like a different way. The markup is all html, and it can easily be used in WordPress posts (using the view HTML tag at the top of the post editor). Click to read more…
