It’s WordPress Week here at CSS-Tricks, so I wanted to so a WordPress-themed screencast and cover a lot of mini-tips that haven’t made it into previous WordPress screencasts. We cover:
- Listing categories with a built-in function and building a tabbed navigation from them with “current tab” functionality
- Numbering comments with a simple incremented PHP variable.
- Improving WordPress search with a plugin and making better design choices.
- Live comment previews with JavaScript and/or plugin.
- Setting better titles for all pages.
- Setting different backgrounds based on URL.
- Setting different styling based on the post ID.
Links from Video:
- Different Posts Per Page (WordPress Plugin)
- Google Site Search
- wmd
- Live Comment Preview (WordPress Plugin)
hey Chris thanks for those really nice videos…
one question yet, i'm not sure how you do to post all of the videos into the videos page, is it a plug-in that posts the subpages?
thanks again…
yeah I'm very curious about that, would make for one of the better video tuts if you did something on that
It's most likely custom fields
Thanks Chris cant wait to try some of these out :)
Great Video Again, Thanks.
I dont know php yet, but i have no trouble customising wordpress, i love it =]
Great Video Again, Thanks.
I dont know php yet, but i have no trouble customising wordpress, i love it =]
I do love that intro too :) – very pro ;)
Chris, have you looked at the WordPress Advanced Search plugin? It addresses some of the things you mention in the video.
http://www.zirona.com/software/wordpress-advanced…
Good screencast Chris, I'm getting to grips with WordPress this week.
Btw, Happy Thanksgiving…
Does anyone know of another hack similar to Different Posts Per Page? I'm not keen on giving out my email to some author to do who knows what with. There are thousands of other authers out that that create wordpress plugins that don't require this, surely someone else has something similar to this hack w/o having to give him or her my name and email address.
Anyone?
Thanks Chris. Brilliant video. Keep em coming.
Very good, I'm loving this week!
Hey Will, have you used it? It looks pretty interesting, but it also looks like it hasn't been updated in a while. I wonder how far it sinks it's teeth into WordPress to do what it does and I also wonder how efficient it is. I'd love to see a blog actually using it.
Chris, can I adopt you? I'm a grandmother who has been designing Websites for a dozen years, but I'm just now getting into using WP as CMS. I have learned so much from you, primarily because you don't use geek-speak and you use a Mac. Your screencasts make me feel like you're one of my son-in-laws sitting down with me to show me how to work with php and css.
Thank you, and can I bake you some cookies or knit you a scarf?
I'm just getting started with wordpress myself, so I've not used it. They are using it on that site though (http://zirona.com)
I posted this on the front page post for this screencast, before realizing that the discussion is actually over here. I was wondering how you did your archives page. It's pretty cool and I'd like to do something similar.
Haha =) That's the first time I've ever been offered a scarf donation! I'm glad to help Mihla.
Great site and video cast chris you have convinced me wordpress is the way forward. has been using a sharepoint based blog no more!!
Keep them coming
I wasn't kidding! Pick your colors: http://www.lionbrand.com/patterns/kwetq-stripedSc…
pick a color and show us all how that video page was created to old its own post and comment
Again, another awesome, and so practically useful video. And always just when I need to know. Thanks Chris.
dear chris, i hereby nominate css-tricks for the guinness book of records title of "world's most informative blog!!!"
meanwhile, could you please optimize your videos a little more? the file sizes are kinda large. i would really appreciate it and i might even email you a virtual espresso…!
Great job Chris, thank you so much. Quick question, In Firefox the browser is shifting by one pixel every other pixel? Sorry about my English, any help would be extremely aprishiated. The link is http://www.studiodork.com I am a student and am brand new to css I watch all your videos and follow you on twitter. you are really good any help would be greatly aprishiated.
Wow! this is such a nice article help for me.. Bu chris I would love to ask you, about the problem with my theme.. can u gt a cure for it.. ? .. Its a wordpress theme, applied on my site. :) The problem is whenever i post many pictures on my blog, they overflow,,, they even go down the comments box.. :( .. :P It would be a gr8 help for me.. :P
Amazing POST!!! keep up the great work! I’ve been always so intimidated by the wordpress theme system and how to use it. This is a great resource!
Chris, thanx for for the great video!
I’ve posted about your video in my blog http://www.webdsgn.ru. In Russian.
Thanks Chris cant wait to try some of these out
Its a wordpress theme, applied on my site. :) The problem is whenever i post many pictures on my blog, they overflow,,, they even go down the comments box
thank you so much. Quick question, In Firefox the browser is shifting by one pixel every other pixel? Sorry about my English
Thank you again for a great screencast. I will be trying out some of these new tricks very soon.