In WordPress 3.0, my WordPress logo image (on the left) broke. So I opened a bug and six weeks and 100 bug comments later, I have upgraded to 3.01 and it is working again. Thanks guys!
The reason why the logo image was broken was quite interesting(?)… In v3.0 WordPress automatically started auto-correcting Wordpress to WordPress (i.e. Word-lowercase-p-ress to Word-uppercase-P-ress) and because my image file name was called “WordpressLogo_blue-m.png”, the auto-correction was breaking the link. Auto-correction shouldn’t cause links to break and it seems that v3.01 fixes it.
The filter function that does this auto-correction is called “capital_P_dangit” – The WordPress guys are obviously pretty frustrated by this spelling mistake!
Old filter (v3.0):
function capital_P_dangit( $text ) {
return str_replace( 'Wordpress', 'WordPress', $text );
}
New filter (v3.01):
function capital_P_dangit( $text ) {
// Simple replacement for titles
if ( 'the_title' === current_filter() )
return str_replace( 'Wordpress', 'WordPress', $text );
// Still here? Use the more judicious replacement
static $dblq = false;
if ( false === $dblq )
$dblq = _x('“', 'opening curly quote');
return str_replace(
array( ' WordPress', '‘Wordpress', $dblq . 'Wordpress', '>Wordpress', '(WordPress' ),
array( ' WordPress', '‘WordPress', $dblq . 'WordPress', '>WordPress', '(WordPress' ),
$text );
}
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Posted by Tom Fotherby
When I was building the property gallery for greekislandpropertyfinders I wanted to use a fancy javascript image gallery like Galleria, however I came across a problem with Galleria in that it couldn’t display more than one gallery on any page. It’s open-source so I used the source code to help write my own version and turned it into a WordPress plugin with the features I needed.
The plugin isn’t all that generalised, so I’m not sure it’ll be useful to many people but I think it’s a tool worth sharing.
Plugin features:
[gallery]Screenshot of the plugin:
Click to enlarge
Demo of plugin: www.greekislandpropertyfinders.co.uk/what-we-are-finding.
Download the plugin from the WordPress.org plugin directory.
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Posted by Tom Fotherby
On this WordPress theme, the sidebar is quite small (only 220px) and the default WordPress tag cloud widget was producing tags that were clipped in a ugly manner. By default, the WordPress tag cloud widget has a maximum font size of 22px so I was looking for a way to reduce it.
Note: If you are not a theme editor, you might find it easier to just install a suitable tag cloud plugin, e.g. Configurable Tag Cloud (CTC).
The WordPress tag cloud widget already allows you to specify various options including the largest font size, e.g. <?php wp_tag_cloud('largest=18'); ?> so we only need to create a new widget that overrides the default widget and then unregister the default widget so there aren’t two widgets with the same name in the “Available Widgets” dashboard page. We can register our own widget using register_sidebar_widget and we can unregister the default tag cloud widget using unregister_widget('WP_Widget_Tag_Cloud');.
This is the code you need – put it in the functions.php file in your WordPress theme folder:
add_action("widgets_init", array('Tag_cloud_withLimitedFontSize', 'register'));
/** Widget - Override the default WordPress tag cloud BUT cap the largest font size to 18 (instead of 22)\
because at 22 some tags don't fit in the sidebar. */
class Tag_cloud_withLimitedFontSize
{
function widget($args){
echo $args['before_widget'];
echo $args['before_title'] . 'Tags' . $args['after_title'];
echo wp_tag_cloud('largest=18');
echo $args['after_widget'];
}
function register()
{
register_sidebar_widget('Tag Cloud', array('Tag_cloud_withLimitedFontSize', 'widget'));
unregister_widget('WP_Widget_Tag_Cloud');
}
}
If there’s a better way to do this, please let me know.
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Posted by Tom Fotherby
I was recently on the look out for a nice minimalist WordPress theme. This is the list I came up with:
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Posted by Tom Fotherby
Today, I found out about a WordPress plugin called Elastic (http://elastictheme.org/, download link) which is a WYSIWYG theme editor for WordPress.
It looks like a very promising technology to make it easier to develop WordPress themes. I’m interested in re-useable modules so, if I develop something interesting for one client, I can re-use the same something for a different client with 1-click (therefore being able to quote them a reduced price). Plugins and widgets achieve this to some extent but Elastic aims to make the same possible at a more fundamental level.
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Posted by Tom Fotherby
A typical use case for a hidden page might be so you can store your website licensing agreement or image attribution links without having it explicitly in the main navigation links – most folk link to their licensing agreement in the footer.
If you want to have a page on your self-hosted WordPress website that is accessible via a URL but not directly linked or advertised on the site, you have several options:
<?php wp_list_pages('depth=1'); ?><?php wp_list_pages('exclude=69' ); ?> If you do this you can automatically hide additional pages by making them a sub-page of the hidden page.<?php require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . '/../../../wp-blog-header.php'); ?>Note: WordPress does have a “Private” checkbox that you can tick in the visibility section of the publish options. However, private pages will not be accessible via any URL.
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Posted by Tom Fotherby
If you are making a WordPress theme you owe it to the user of your theme to make sure image alignment works as expected. Most of the Visual Editor formatting buttons use inline CSS which won’t be affected by the theme but this is not the case with the alignment buttons in pages/posts when applied to images.
The red labels show what Visual Editor buttons I’m talking about:
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Posted by Tom Fotherby