We recently launched a new website for the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro-based marketing agency, Magnetik Marketing Solutions. The site is actually template-based, with numerous customizations done to it. There is a large, front-page slider that gets some of the marketing message of the business out to visitors while adding a little motion and excitement to the design. To add some content … Read More
If you want to limit or even make UNlimited the number of results produced by the WordPress loop, without starting a new wp_query, I have a solution for you. This will work on an results or archive page, anywhere the loop is used, including results for authors, custom taxonomies, custom post types, or categories. In this example, we are going … Read More
When working with custom fields in WordPress, it’s necessary to know how to actually display those values on the page. And much of the time, you may have markup associated with that custom field that you only want displayed if the field actually has a value. We are going to learn how to do just that. In this example, we … Read More
Built-in to WordPress is a nifty function, wp_dropdown_categories, that is supposed to list all your categories in a drop-down menu and, with the right script, link directly to them. It even has an argument for using it with a custom taxonomy. The only thing is, it doesn’t work. It doesn’t produce the appropriate link. It appears to produce a link like /?cat=# … Read More
There is an easy, amazing new way to add and manage custom fields for your WordPress site, and it doesn’t involve learning tons of PHP, or even any coding whatsoever! The answer lies in the plugin called Advanced Custom Fields. This has saved me so much time in working with custom fields, it’s truly amazing! Rarely do I describe plugins … Read More
Sometimes in Photoshop (CS5 in my case), inexplicably, every time you use the eyedropper to get a color, it will change the secondary or background color swatch and not the primary color swatch. It can be truly maddening trying to figure this out, since the solution is far from easy to find. Googling it won’t do you much good unless … Read More
Are you experiencing a problem in Google Chrome where, inexplicably, highlighting text and scrolling have a massive lag and delay? If you aren’t experiencing those same problems in any other browser and are in Chrome, I might have a solution for you> I’m not really sure why this solution solves the problem, but for some reason it works. The problem … Read More
One thing that comes up a lot for me while building websites based off Photoshop designs, is that I need the ability to quickly and easily edit a layer by itself, as its own document, and then be able to export that file by itself as well. So how can we do that? I am using Photoshop CS5 though this … Read More
If you’ve been working on adding a custom post type into your WordPress theme, only to fall flat when, inexplicably, the title and editor in the post edit screen have disappeared, have no fear! Here is the common cause. If you don’t add ‘supports’ => array( ) into your custom post type registration, then at the very least WordPress assumes … Read More
It’s amazing how difficult it is to Google how to do this exact thing, but it’s so simple. But there are already pages linked into your WordPress site that will display all your posts that are tagged with multiple things. You just need to know how to link to it! Here is an example: Example: Link to all of my … Read More
