Spotlight Theme Renamed to MonJul
Naming themes is the most frustrating part of the process of creating them, speaking from a strictly personal perspective. Since I couldn’t come up with a new name for the Spotlight Theme I’ve decided today to name it MonJul which is a combination of Monday (the current day of the week) and July, the present
Continue ReadingRenaming the Spotlight theme
Recently discovered there are already at least a couple of WordPress themes named “Spotlight” so will be renaming the Spotlight Theme. Haven’t yet decided on a new name.
Continue ReadingWordPress theme how-to restart
Based on feedback from A. Lewis I’ve decided to restart my WordPress theme how-to by approaching it a little bit differently, so if you read and followed the steps in my original post WordPress theme how to part 1, sorry for abandoning this
Continue ReadingWordPress 3.0 custom menu show home option in list of pages
Trying to get comfortable with the custom menus feature in WordPress 3.0. Just discovered after studying Twenty Ten that there was no need to use the custom link option to add a button for the home page to the custom menu. There is a filter
Continue ReadingWorking with wordpress custom headers in child themes
For anyone having trouble getting custom headers to work in child themes: %s is referring to the parent theme so if you have your header images saved in your child theme folder they won’t be found. You need to change %s where you’ve
Continue ReadingWordPress multisite better spam blog control options
Looking into whether or not it’s possible to work easily with the allow new registrations part of WordPress mulitsite. Basically investigating how easy it is to control aspects of the registration and blog creation as I think currently this
Continue ReadingFollow up on new and more efficient way to blog
Have come up with an idea based on my post New and more efficent way to blog? Need to work on the idea a bit to see if it will be possible first before I go into detail. It will involve automation to some extent because I think most people who start
Continue ReadingWP Business Directory Manager 1.8 Progress report
Version 1.8 is still being worked on. The major overhaul planned for the version has been scrapped at this time because it creates more problems than it solves. Considering doing a second business directory product built around WordPress 3.0
Continue Readingforeach php
The foreach loop – best way to learn is by example. So let’s say we have an array
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php or die sounds like the title of an action flick. The die statement in PHP is actually a valuable tool to use in tracking down errors when your program isn’t doing what it’s supposed to be doing. Basically you tell the processor to
Continue Readingphp htaccess errors
For htaccess php error logging add the code below to your htaccess file to log php errors: php_flag log_errors on php_value error_log G:\xampplite\htdocs\xxxxx\xxxx\error_log.log The path to the file error_log.log will need to be adjusted based
Continue ReadingParse error: syntax error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR
Getting a message “Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR”? Please upgrade your version of PHP from PHP 4 to PHP 5. If you’re 100% certain you are already using PHP 5 then post to the forum for additional
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