Chilligavva

Most wordpress themes (nearly all of them) display comments in an ascending order. That is the first comment is on top and the latest at the bottom of the page. If you are anything like me and want to dig into the latest comment right away, you would prefer a reverse ordering of comments. This is a preferred approach in popular blogs, as otherwise you have to literally scroll down zillions of comments, to finally reach the latest..

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One cannot call an image directly in wordpress in your theme files. For instance I cannot actually place an image with the command When the page is displayed, nothing happens. This is because of WP taking into account the complete URL and not just referential paths. By providing the correct URL, it would make the task simple. The function getpath(); gets the full base path using the builtin wordpress ...

I am pretty tired of blogs that have 'n' number of posts aired on their landing page with a column of info on either side. That was one of the the reason I rehauled my site. I now have a situation wherein the latest 2 posts are displayed on the homepage, and if there is an announcement, the latest single post and the announcement is displayed. Its not rocket science, and its pretty easy to implement.. AIM: If ...

Do you like the idea of flipping pictures? I do. I think it creates a nice feeling of freshness without too much investment in creating content. Its actually very easy to implement.. step1: create a folder in the images folder of your current theme directory. Lets say you call it "rotimages" [ yourwpdirectory / wp-content / themes / currenttheme / images / rotimages] step2: copy all the images you want to display ...

Hello, its wednesday again.. Happy Halloween.! Today, I shall be giving out a tip on how to organize your theme folder, in wordpress so as to get a grip on what you are doing. This is not so much wordpress, as more of a best practice.. Don't insert your entire code into your sidebar.php, header.php, home.php, page.php, single.php pages... Instead work with chunks.. What do I mean? I shall demonstrate by example.. If you look into my ...

Sometimes we want to display a different button for when you are logged-in and another for when you are not.. (See pictures) /*we figure out if user is logged in? If not logged in, show button, else show button */ a href='/ wp-login.php”target=“new” class=“login”> login / wp-login.php?action=logout” target=“new” class=“logout”> logout

Instead of styling the link classes, you can also just change the text

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In an ideal web world, all websites should display the same in any media or device.. (screen, printer, mobile, speech synthesiser etc. etc.)  This actually helps a lot of readers recieve the website in a manner that is correct for them.  What do I mean?  The sight impaired can either recieve a site in a braille friendly manner or listen to the site read out to them  in an audio format. (text to speech.).

For a very normal reader,

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I was thinking about how wordpress was used by bizzillions, and how we all love it.  Keep it coming Matt and kudos to all the wonderful faces behind this beautiful product.  So with all this love and good feeling oozing out, I decided to make some simple buttons, that you could use in your blog.  Please do not link back to these original images, as I have to pay through my nose, if you do so

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