When I was at WordCamp Ottawa this year, I was asked a question about how to create custom post types without generating permalinks. This is actually something I do a lot of as I am creating internal content types that are not meant to be viewed individually at their own url.
The snippet below will register the post type and you’ll notice that there is no Permalink line below the title. (more…)
Building custom widgets is fun, rebuilding them because we need to change the way it looks is not. With that in mind, lets build a skinnable WordPress widget that separates how it looks from what it does. For the purposes of this tutorial, I am assuming that you are comfortable creating a Widget and working with the API. Please refer to the Widget API as needed. (more…)
If you ever have an automatic update fail sometimes your WordPress install can get stuck in maintenance mode. I just had this happen to me and was able to find…
3 Jewels in my Crown was a very fun WordPress theme to work on. It features many different custom image sizes based on a Featured Image and does all of…
As the resident "web guy" for Les Stroud Productions, I was tasked with maintaining and improving upon the flagship website for Les Stroud. Built on Wordpress this site has seen…
I found a fantastic article on some great default functions for your functions.php file. They're not all for every occasion but a great place to start. I pulled out the…
This is a sneaky little WordPress hack that replaces your page title with an ad for pharmaceutical products. The best part (and the reason you may not see it right away) is that you don’t see it on your site, the new page titles only appear in search engine results.
I just competed work on a WordPress theme for Luke Despatie & The Design Firm based on the very clean and elegant artwork provided by Luke. The theme itself has…
** EDIT - 02/08/13 ** I just committed a complete overhaul of my Easy Analytics plugin. It was in dire need of it and I am far happier with it.…
Typically we have always created Flash sites from scratch and used XML or, in the case of Rush.com, a custom-made CMS as the content source For the bulk of our…