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How to add a counter to your post_class in WordPress 6 Nov 2012 | 06:18 pm
For the redesign of this site, I wanted to implement various design elements, in particular related to the Responsive Design, made possible by iThemes Builder. One of those elements is that when visit...
Why NOT load jQuery from a CDN in WordPress 30 Oct 2012 | 08:23 pm
In principle using the Google (or any other) CDN makes sense for a standalone site or application. However, WordPress is an open source application, and there are thousands of developers creating plug...
When NOT to use a caching plugin in WordPress 7 Jul 2011 | 12:01 am
From my experience as a Support Manager, I encounter a lot of “issues” with caching plugins in WordPress. It is good to understand what these plugins do (in general) and when to use them, and when not...
How to arrange your WordPress posts in columns and rows 15 Feb 2011 | 04:51 am
Every now and then, I get asked to do some customisations, and the one that regularly pops up is “I want to display posts in columns, {insert any number here} next to each other, just like in such-and...
A quick look at some new features in WordPress 3.1 27 Nov 2010 | 02:08 am
Yesterday, Nov. 25, 2010, WordPress 3.1 Beta 1 was released for testing purposes. There’s a feature stop, which means that the beta testing period will be used to collect and squash any bugs that are ...
Enhancing your WordPress 3 menus 26 Nov 2010 | 02:20 am
WordPress 3 comes with integrated menu management. Although still a bit quirky at times, it makes creating and managing (navigation) menus a breeze. However, now that creating and displaying a menu ta...
How to add featured image thumbnails to WordPress posts and pages, the easy way 18 Aug 2010 | 02:41 am
Since WordPress version 2.9, featured images (formerly known as “post thumbnails”) are integrated in the Write Post and Write Page panel. Not all WordPress themes make use of these fields, and a chang...
How to replace text links with icon links in WP 3 navigation menus 12 Jul 2010 | 01:59 am
The new WordPress 3 navigation menus are an excellent tool to design your own menus, mixing pages, categories and custom links. iThemes created video tutorials on how to use the new WordPress navigati...
How to retrieve a menu item ID from WP 3 navigation menus 11 Jul 2010 | 11:20 pm
For an upcoming tutorial on the new menu system in WordPress 3, we need to identify each menu item, so that we can address that in our stylesheet. That way, we can add specific styling to a single men...
How to register and list users based on user roles in WordPress 26 Jun 2010 | 02:06 am
The idea for this came from a request, where the customer wanted to allow users to register online, and then allow these users to be able to view a list of all other users that have registered. Regula...
