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With more and more sites moving away from pagination in areas such as blog lists and archives and implementing a Facebook and Twitter style infinite scroll it makes sense to give user a quick and simple way to get back to the top of your site. Pinterest does this very well by adding a tab in the bottom corner of your browser window that… More »
Over the last three years I’ve constantly redesigned this site with the main focus of learning new ways to bring out powerful functionality from the ever-evolving open source platform,... More »
Running scripts in your WordPress theme can give a developer the ability to enhance a websites functionality, but each script being used can add additional load times throughout your sites pages.... More »
For the work section of this site the previous theme for this site I wanted a simple slideshow to showcase my design and development work over the years, but also make it very simple to create them... More »
In my opinion, WordPress is the best option for building a custom CMS for clients, as it provides one of the best administration area setups that I’ve ever worked with. Things are laid out in a simple way,... More »
It seems that with every release of a WordPress upgrade there are a few key features that move the software a few steps closer to becoming a much more powerful CMS, and the plan for WordPress... More »
If you are looking to create a post landing page layout that flows across multiple columns while maintaining a consistent height to each post coming through from the loop, then the following... More »
As a javascript is being loaded on a site, it will prevent any other item from downloading. This can be very frustrating for your visitors if the scripts are loading before the images, styles,... More »
With every file loaded into a site an HTTP request is made to the server, and the higher the number of requests made will decrease the overall load time of your site pages and posts. A simple... More »
Wouldn’t it be nice to have the ability to add new custom module on the dashboard in your WordPress builds? The following code will do just that, simply add it to your functions.php file... More »
When setting up custom WordPress builds for clients there are sometimes areas within the administration area that will never be used, and other areas that you simply do not want those clients to... More »
When you first install an instance of WordPress there are a set of default modules that are displayed on the dashboard within the administration area. Often times client, or even developers themselves, have no use for some of them. Instead... More »
If your design calls for flowing a WordPress categories or blog roll list over two columns then the following functions will allow you to do just that, and style them along the way by using the... More »
For some strange reason images inserted in posts or pages in WordPress will automatically have an inline style applied to them, which could cause formatting headaches for the site visitor. The... More »
Depending on how you have designed the overall look and feel of your site, you may want to use more or less than the 55 characters that the default WordPress the_excerpt template tags uses. By default,... More »
For the work section of this site the previous theme for this site I wanted a simple... More »
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