Posted by Lyndi |
| WordPress
I was doing some work on a new theme and I wanted some way to spruce up the search pages in WordPress. Normally if a user searches for some or other keyword, a rather bland page is returned. This page normally has a heading something like Search Results. The excerpts of the relevant articles are then listed below this heading.
I found an article on WP Recipes that provided some code that went a long way towards solving this problem. This code returns the number of items found for the relevant keyword as well as the keyword itself and places these in the heading of the search page. This made a lot of sense to me and I decided to try it out.
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Posted by Lyndi |
| WordPress
Earlier this week I mentioned that I have started work on a new free WordPress theme. I received quite a bit of feedback on what should be included in this theme and what should be left out.
I have finally made my mind up as to what will be going into the new theme.
A few years ago, when I first started web development, it seemed as if all successful websites and templates were blue in color. Through the years this tendency changed and today there are very few bluish themes/websites out there. I have never yet developed something in blue but that is about to change (who says one has to follow the norm?).
I am going to give you all a sneak preview of the theme but as always there is method to my madness. I am struggling to find a name for the new theme and I am hoping somebody will come up with a stunning name. Unfortunately I have nothing to give away to the person who comes up with the winning name, you will just have to settle for my gratitude.
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Posted by Lyndi |
| WordPress
An interesting question came out of the comments that were made on yesterdays post – is breadcrumb navigation really necessary for a WordPress blog?
WordPress makes it possible for us to add pages in a hierarchical way. We now also have the same functionality with regards to categories. This could mean that just maybe there is still a need for breadcrumb navigation in WordPress. I decided I am going to give it a shot and include this form of navigation in my next free WordPress theme.
There are quite a few plugins available that provide this functionality but I wanted some or other script to add the functionality directly to the theme. I have previously posted about a little script for breadcrumbs but this script fell short in that it made no provision for child pages. I have now updated this script just a little bit.
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Posted by Lyndi |
| WordPress
Over at Nice2Create, Sailor and I offer quite a few WordPress services. Amongst others we build fully customized WordPress themes and we also customize existing free WordPress themes. This last service is proving to be very popular, we are getting about 2 to 3 requests for this service per week right now. There is however one problem, people ask for the cheaper customization of an existing theme and then expect a fully blown customized theme.
All of this has got me thinking. If people are having existing themes changed, could it mean that the free themes that are available out there, are not really delivering the goods? Is it possible that the free theme developers have not kept pace with the requirements of the WordPress community?
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