Writing a WordPress Function: breadcrumbs()

By Ronnie T. Dodger on March 4, 2009

Let’s write a function for breadcrumbs that can be easily added to your Wordpress themes. Wordpress functions are preferable over the hundreds of plugins that are available — to me anyway.

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Formatting Sample Code Snippets in WordPress

By Ronnie T. Dodger on February 28, 2009

Displaying code snippets in Wordpress can be a chore. Fortunately there are several plugins to choose from. My plugin of choice is Scott Reilly’s Preserve Code Formatting which prevents modification by WordPress and other plugins while retaining original whitespace and characters.

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Stupid YouTube Comments

By Ronnie T. Dodger on February 27, 2009

The Internet has always had loud dumb people, but I’ve never seen anything quite as bad as the people who comment on YouTube videos.

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Undocumented WordPress Query Function: wp_reset_query()

By Ronnie T. Dodger on February 26, 2009

Creating a conditional sidebar widget in Wordpress turned into an odyssey of discovery. How an obscure usage of query_posts will bork your is_home() conditional tags.

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Early stages of theme development

The Building of a Blog

By Ronnie T. Dodger on February 24, 2009

Travel with me through the inner workings of Wordpress during my installation and theme creation. What I did or did not do, and why. From Wordpress plugins to settings, it is all here.

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Is this thing on?

By Ronnie T. Dodger on February 23, 2009

Just a quick post to announce the rebirth of the blog here at Webstractions. As mentioned in an old post, I am switching over from an FTP based Blogger account to WordPress and that day finally came. The theme is a little bare right now. Lots of work to be done, so excuse the mess [...]

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