Category Archives: advanced

Placing a custom graphic in Facebook sidebar

If you’ve just read my last post this will all seem very familiar. Best to just ignore it and move on…
Placing an image in Facebook is, as is usual with Facebook, a somewhat convoluted process (again) - but if you follow the steps methodically it should go smoothly. Maybe…
First you need to add the application [...]

Placing an Add Photo button on to a Facebook page

This is, as is usual with Facebook, a somewhat convaluted process - but if you follow the steps methodically it should go smoothly. Probably.
First you need to add the application static FBML to your Facebook page. Go to their page and click ‘add to page’.
To use this app click ‘edit page’ (under main photo when [...]

Placing a specific sidebar on a particular page

Placing specific sidebars where you want will enable you to turn a simple blog into a CMS style site such as gekko longboards where I’ve put a shopping cart widget on some pages (but not all) and a further 4 sidebars in the footer giving me a really flexible content framework.
This assumes you already have [...]

Including dynamic content in Wordpress

A recent problem found some interesting solutions - I wanted to show a feature on posts of a certain category only.
The feature was the excellent ratings widget from gdragon - the problem was that from their dashboard it was either all or nothing regarding which posts showed the widget.
So I included the following code in [...]

Calendar style date for wordpress

For a loverly calendar style date for your posts please steal the following code…

First you need to place some code into your index.php file just after the start of the loop ie just after
<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post() ?>
as follows…

<div class="date_cal">
<div class="day"><?php the_time ('D'); ?></div>
<div class="date"><?php the_time ('j'); ?></div>
<div class="month"><?php the_time ('M'); [...]

choosing a template for a building a wordpress theme

This depends on how far you want to go…
…if you just want to change the header graphic, and maybe the colour scheme you will find that K2 is fantastic in that respect (also take a look at Thematic). However if you want to completely butcher the layout - for example change sidebar configuration and maybe [...]

adding contact forms to wordpress

I’ve sifted through many contact form plugins for wordpress. Luckily you don’t have to go through the nightmare of trying them all out as I have done it for you!
The best, most customisable I’ve found is available at delicious days (great recipes there too - in case you get peckish during installation). A huge menu [...]

changing archive posts to excerpts

If you want to change your archives in Wordpress from full posts to excerpts go to design>theme editor>archive.php and change the following code from
<?php the_content(); ?>
to
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
If archive.php doesn’t exist then best leave well alone…..
(PS this also works on your index page)