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Bad Links in Free WordPress Themes

kailoon — Thu, 27 May 2010 06:53:00 +0000

WordPress, offered by most blog hosting companies, is great for blogs and remains the easiest system to setup, use, and run your blog on. The great thing about the WordPress community is that people are more than willing to share their hard work with free themes. Because there are so many free themes out there, however, finding the right WordPress theme for your site will take time. You will have to go through many themes before finding the perfect one, but you also need to worry about more than just looks. Many themes contain embedded links to affiliate and promotion sites which can be harmful for your site. To understand why your site can be harmed by affiliate links, promotion links, and other types of links commonly found in many free WordPress themes, we must discuss why these types of links are typically bad. Affiliate links are special links that most anyone can obtain to sell products. When a product is sold via an affiliate's link, the affiliate receives a monetary kickback for the sale, usually a percentage of the sale or a fixed fee. A promotion link is similar, but the author of the theme typically purchases the link via an offer that is fixed in price. In both situations, the theme's author has no control over the content which the website links to, making the site potentially harmful. While these sites seem fine, many affiliate links contain content that may not agree with your website's content. Imagine a family-safe website with links pointing to adult offers such as pornographic material or drug items. Because you and the theme author both lack any control over what type of content is placed on the link, there is great potential that the content can change at any time. The link may look safe to you now, but it may not remain safe in the future. Make sure your WordPress hosting does not contain these types of links. Affiliate links may also contain websites that promote scam products meant to cheat customers out of money. By linking to this website, your website is endorsing a scam de facto, whether you actually agree with it or not. Since Google allows all web users easy access to product reviews, your visitors will be able to learn very quickly whether your site appears to endorse scam products. Even though you were not the one to originally place the link on your theme and may not personally endorse any type of scam, your website visitors have no way of knowing this. Web hosting companies also do not like to see scam promotions, so your hosting may inadvertently be discontinued for an action you did not even intend. Bad links in free WordPress themes lead to one more disadvantage to a website. Google and other popular search engines utilize what are commonly referred to as "spiders" that are constantly "crawling" your website and looking at every other page on the Internet, as well. One reason search engines, like Google, do this is to see how many websites link to a particular site. If there are tons of links to one website, Google assumes it is very popular and increases the overall ranking of the webpage. While this may be fine, the reason most affiliate links are placed in free themes is for this reason. By including a bad link in your website's free theme, the author is trying to increase his or her overall Google ranking to potentially victimize even more web visitors. Google may catch on to this type of backlinking activity and "punish" websites with links like this by reducing a page's ranking. If you are using a free theme that includes a link that Google views as unethical or against their terms of service, Google will lower your website ranking or, even worse, "sandbox" your website and make it disappear from Google. Since most web visitors come from Google, you could eliminate your site from any future visits by using a free WordPress theme with these types of links. In summary, using a free WordPress theme that contains affiliate links, promotion links, and other types of links that could be viewed as nefarious is simply not a good idea. Your website visitors may be turned off or offended by the link, you cannot control the linking page's content, and Google may very well even punish your website and remove it from search listings. In some WordPress themes you can go into the theme files, found in the wp-content/themes/ folder of your website, and edit the file that contains the bad link. If not, you may want to simply find a new theme that doesn't contain bad links. Bio:
This article has been penned down by Joanna and Laura who are part of webhostingsearch.com from over 2 years and been in the web industry from quite some time now.

Christmas Giveaway Result: 15 High Quality Premium WordPress Themes

kailoon — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:33:52 +0000

Winners

Nippr

Prize: Twicet Business & Portfolio – Wordpress – 5 in 1

nursaiful

Prize: Display 3 in 1 – Business & Portfolio Wordpress

Nick Plekhanov

Prize: Modern Portfolio/blog theme

fairuz

Prize: BVD-Beautiful Website Design-Wordpress

bryanlyt

Prize: Dynamic Premium Wordpress Theme 4 in 1

Dario

Prize: Memex Business Wordpress Template

sonmanutd

Prize: RT-Theme 5 / Business Theme 10 in 1 for Wordpress

Kylie Larsson

Prize: UniSphere Minim Corporate and Portfolio

Mustafa Quilon

Prize: vCard Professional Portfolio WordPress Edition

Dian

Prize: Liquid Magazine – Unique Fluid Grid Layout

dragyn

Prize: Atlantica (Wordpress) – Premium Portfolio Template

webbografico

Prize: ShapeShifter – One Page, Infinite Possibilities

grabek

Prize: Photo Blogger + Portfolio Wordpress 2 in 1

Kishore Mylavarapu

Prize: My Wordpress

Raju

Prize: Our Magazine

Credits

Once again, thanks to ThemeForest and group of awesome theme designers/developers for all the supports. Happy New year and Merry Christmas to all the winners and authors! For the winners, you will receive your prize within few days, please do not worry if you do not receive any prizes from the author yet, it may takes few days due to the long holidays. Enjoy!

Christmas Giveaway: 15 High Quality Premium WordPress Themes

kailoon — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:06:37 +0000

Contest End

ThemeForest

ThemeForest is an Envato Marketplace. At ThemeForest you can buy and sell HTML templates as well as themes for popular CMS products like WordPress, Joomla and Drupal with prices ranging from just $5 up to $40. Items are priced on the complexity, quality and use of the file. The site is home to a bustling community of web designers and developers and is the biggest marketplace of its kind.

Prizes

Ok, let's see what you can win from there!

1. Twicet Business & Portfolio - Wordpress - 5 in 1 by Kriesi

Twicet is a Wordpress Template, best suited for Business and Portfolio sites. It comes with 5 sleek skins. This is also the top selling WordPress theme on ThemeForest!

2. Display 3 in 1 - Business & Portfolio Wordpress by Kriesi

DISPLAY is a Wordpress Theme, best suited for Business and Portfolio sites. It comes with a fantastic 3D Image slideshow that can be controlled from your backend with a custom tool. The Theme has a huge wordpress custom backend (8 additional Admin Pages) that make customization of the Theme easy for those who dont know much about coding or wordpress.

3. Modern Portfolio/blog theme by Hein Maas

This theme has now been updated with a fully working contact form, so you no longer need a plugin for this, and it’s integrated inside a custom contact page template, Next update will contain the dropdown and portfolio navigation

4. BVD-Beautiful Website Design-Wordpress by Marko Prljić

This is a Beautiful Website Design – Business Portfolio Blog Template.

5. Dynamic Premium Wordpress Theme 4 in 1 by Khan

This theme is a fixed layout with two . This site is best suitable for a business, company, Blog, portfolio, or for individuals who are looking to have a fully featured website such as freelancer portfolio website etc.

6. Memex Business Wordpress Template by Khan

Memex Business Wordpress Template is a feature-packed portfolio/blog theme that includes a full-featured, Admin Panel to change numerous options like theme switching to different colors, Homepage big heading.

7. RT-Theme 5 / Business Theme 10 in 1 for Wordpress by Tolga

RT-Theme 5 wordpress edition is best suited for business, corporate or service websites.

8. UniSphere Minim Corporate and Portfolio by UniSphere

UniSphere Minim is a Wordpress theme designed with corporate businesses in mind. It has a custom CMS integrated into the Wordpress administration area that allows you to build a fully functional professional website in minutes. The theme is also well suited for online portfolios and blogs.

9. vCard Professional Portfolio WordPress Edition by Ivor Padilla

This is a professional and clean vCard based on Tim Van Damme’s website. With this design you can use almost any background.

10. Liquid Magazine - Unique Fluid Grid Layout by Michael ( Mixey )

Liquid Magazine is truly unique theme with fluid grid layout!

11. Atlantica (Wordpress) - Premium Portfolio Template by Brandon

This theme is a complete Wordpress Theme, designed from the ground up to function first and foremost as a portfolio, then as a comprehensive Wordpress theme that can be used for just about any site that needs a beautiful layout.

12. ShapeShifter - One Page, Infinite Possibilities. by Brandon

This is easily the most fun I’ve ever had working on a Wordpress theme to date! ShapeShifter is a single-page Wordpress template that has been designed to be just about the simplest theme you could possibly every use. This theme is lean, mean, and ready for you to install in minutes.

13. Photo Blogger + Portfolio Wordpress 2 in 1 by imaginem

Photo Blogger is a minimalistic wordpress theme which can be easily installed to showcase your photographs, artworks, or designs with content. This theme supports displaying of large images. It has an option to either choose gallery mode to view the pictures in category list or view them in traditional blog style.

14. My WordPress by kailoon

My WordPress is a professional WordPress theme with the intent and focus on creating a community site. It is widget ready, print ready, page-navi ready, ad optimization ready, SEO friendly, smooth tabbing and dropdown using jquery, breadcumb integrated and many more!

15. Our Magazine by kailoon

A powerful WordPress theme special for online magazine, community, network or any site with rich content. It is modern, clean, and sexy ~

How To Win?

1. Simple comment on this post will do. 2. Write about which theme you would like to win and why? And, how are you going to use it? 3. We will randomly pick the winner for each theme. 4, Winner will be contacted by the theme author directly via email, so, please comment with your contactable email address.

Example:

Theme Name
I like this theme because ...
I am going to use it ...

Term & Conditions

1. Every participant will only win 1 copy of theme. 2. Every participant can only win 1 item. 3. There will be no support provided in the future for all the prizes. ( No worry, there is a detailed documentation within the file ) 4. Each theme can only be used on one single domain for once. 5. Comment will be closed on 24th December 2009.

Credits

Special thanks to ThemeForest to allow me to have this wonderful giveaway in this wonderful Christmas. Also, not forgotten to say thank you to all the awesome themes creators!

Kriesi

My name is Christian, I am a 27 year old Vienna based Web Designer. I run Kriesi.at and have a partiality for colorful design, unobtrusive javascript and clean php code.

Hein Maas

Hi , I’m a dutch freelance graphic/web designer who’s building beautiful timeless designs for extremely great developers and Design Agency’s with a lack of time or know-how to get the design they need for there precious projects.

Marko Prljić

Freelance Croatian web & graphic designer.

Khan

Khan is one of our rockstar authors with items across three marketplaces including AudioJungle, GraphicRiver and of course ThemeForest. With over 3,500 sales and 57 ThemeForest themes and templates, Khan has helped set the bar high. More about Khan.

Tolga

IT professional with over 9 years in Web Development, Web Design and E-Commerce consulting… also amateur photographer, married, with animals and workaholic.

UniSphere

Hey everybody, I’m UniSphere and I live in Porto, Portugal. I specialize in Web Design and Wordpress development.

Ivor Padilla

I am Ivor, a 26 year old Web Designer raised in Venezuela. I love Envato and that’s why I design websites for ThemeForest. I’m almost a lawyer too but I’m planning work as a freelancer for the rest of my life and of course I’m a Mac!

Michael ( Mixey )

Hi! My name is Michael and I build beautiful websites powered by Wordpress. And I would love to do one for you.

Brandon

I’ve been freelancing fulltime for about 8 years now and I’ve worked on countless projects, ranging from branding projects to top-tier web design gigs.

imaginem

Hi, I’m Mondre, a Freelancer. I work using: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, CSS , HTML, PHP , JAVASCRIPT & MYSQL . If you have any questions regarding any of my items, send me a message. Suggestions and theme requests are most welcome, send me a mail via my profile.

kailoon

Hi! My name is Kai Loon, I run LoonDesign and themetation.

My WordPress

kailoon — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:55:32 +0000

Update ( 11 August 2010 )

Files modified: admin_layout.php

Fixed post updates issue.

Update ( 10 August 2010 ) - Version 3.22

Files modified: style.css, admin_layout.php

Fixed WordPress Editor conflicts.

Update ( 4 August 2010 ) - Version 3.21

Files modified: index.php, theme_functions.php, all css files, archive.php, search.php, tab.php, bottom.php, theme_options.php, related.php, sidebar.php, theme_widget_area.php

Improve documentation about the theme update instruction.
When you uncheck the post thubmnail, all thumbails will be disabled.
Added one new widget area above the popular and recent comment tabs box.
Added a notificaiton box in dashboard to display the current version of the theme and you will get notified when there is a new version available.
Exclude user link feeds from recent comments.

Update ( 28 July 2010 ) - Version 3.2

Files modified: admin_functions.php, style.css, admin_layout.php

Added the function to auto check for theme updates.

Update ( 27 July 2010 ) - Version 3.1

Improved exceprt - now it will disabled all formatting and exclude image from excerpt.
You can also set the length of the excerpt.
WordPress MU compatible.

Massive Updates ( 26 July 2010 )

New Framework added
Localization!
Added 2 new Nav Menu
Custom widgets for Twitter and Flickr.
Refined overall design and typography, re-structure files, restyle some elements.
Improved SEO, now H1 only appear on front page or home. H1 will be the article title in single post page.

Fix Jquery implementation so it will not conflict with plugins.

You can choose how the related posts work, either based on tags or categories.

Improved user link feeds. Now it is using custom comment which is more stable and flexible.

Improved images management.

Features:

6 Colors
Feedburner Integration
Powerful Theme Options
User Link Feed Ready
Able to switch sidebar position by a single click
Auto image resizing
Flickr Showcase
Wp-navi and breadcrumb integrated
Ad Management System
Social Linking (Digg, StumbleUpon, etc.)
Modern footer display
Smooth tabbing system
SuperFish for dropdown menu ( Both pages and Categories )
Unique author and search result page
Unique threaded comment styling
2 Column Tabless (CSS Layout)
Sidebar Widget Ready
Gravatar ready
Valid CSS and XHTML
Browser compatibility: All Major Browsers
Related Posts
Popular Posts
SEO Friendly
Many more!

Price

USD 30

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60+ Awesome WordPress Tutorials

kailoon — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:52:59 +0000

Installation

Before start your own WordPress Theme, you may need to know how to install WordPress. Just in case if you don't know.

1. How to Install WordPress on Your Own Server + Video Tutorial

Michael D. Pollock shows you how to install WordPress on your own server via step by step tutorial and screencast.

2. Multiple Wordpress Installations Using a Single Database

Streamline your Wordpress set-up by installing multiple instances of Wordpress on the same database.

3. My WordPress Install Process

David Peralty is sharing his experience on how to install WordPress and break down the process into step by step tutorial.

4. Leopard: How to Install Wordpress

Installing a local version of wordpress is one of the first things most designers and developers need to do. Leopard adds many new wrinkles to this task. These steps should get you up and running as painlessly as possible on OS X 10.5.

Theme Tutorials

I don't know why, I think the most wanted tutorial from WordPress is designing a theme.

5. So you want to create WordPress themes huh?

A series of tutorials guiding you to create your very own WordPress theme. I think this quite popular.

6. How To Create WordPress Themes From Scratch

A series of tutorial guiding you to create a WordPress theme from scratch. Ya, this is by me. This is a little bit advance because there is a section involved creating featured post.

7. Make your Own Wordpress Theme - Part 1

Another series of tutorial guiding you to create a WordPress theme. This tutorials break into 7 parts, quite details.

8. Stop Tweaking! Create Your Own Wordpress Theme

This is a very basic tutorial, I recommend to anyone how are very new to WordPress but wish to learn how to create WordPress theme.

9. Premium Wordpress Theme Design Part 1 - The Photoshop Mock Up

As you can see from the title, this is something premium. So, make sure you have enough knowledge to continue reading...

10. How to Create a Wordpress Theme from Scratch

Nettuts present this awesome tutorial (written by Sam Parkinson).

11. How-To: Create a WordPress Theme in 5 minutes

This is hardcore, in 5 minutes. But it is quite complete, I admit that.

12. WordPress for designer

This is my favorite tutorial, it is fun to learn via screencast. Besides, the tutorial is very complete.

13. Complete WordPress Theme Guide

A comprehensive guide on how to install WordPress and customize theme. Also check out the part 2 of this tutorial - Building Custom WordPress Theme.

14. Build a Newspaper Theme with WP_Query and the 960 CSS Framework

For a non-traditional or magazine-style layout, this tutorial will take you through the specific WordPress coding that's involved and you’ll create a simple, but attractive, sample layout.

15. Designing for WordPress

Chris Coyier of CSS-Tricks has a three-part video series for downloading and installing WordPress, all the way through everything else involved with designing a custom theme. The example theme that is built through the series is a personalized homepage theme.

16. Developing a WordPress Theme

Deziner Folio did a tutorial that covers the basics of the header, sidebar, footer and index files. This one is not as in-depth as some of the others on this list, but it is a good place to get a quicker understanding of theme development.

17. Creating a WordPress Template

A video tutorial series ( part2 and 3) for creating a WP theme using a variety of free tools.

18. How to make a "child theme" for WordPress

A video tutorial.

19. Creating A Wordpress Theme

Another nice guide.

20. How to write your own wordpress theme

A very extensive tutorial which covers the basics.

Wordpress Theme Hacks and Techniques

Here are some WordPress hacks for you to make WordPress a better blogging tool.

21. Mastering Wordpress Theme Hacks and Techniques

By Noupe.

22. Wordpress Theme Hacks

A collection of simple Wordpress hacks that you'll find yourself reusing all the time when working with themes.

23. Category Hacks for WordPress Theme Designers

Category Hacks for WordPress Theme Designers by VandelayDesign. Also check out the Category Styling for posts in a certain category using CSS.

24. Multiple Page Layouts in a Single Template

If you're looking for a more diversified template for sub-pages in a template, check out this quick tutorial for mutiple page layouts in a single template.

25. Wordpress as a CMS - Content Management System

Turn WordPress into a real CMS.

Menu And Navigation

Menu is the main part of a web design. It may somehow attract people to navigate, also, easy to navigate is still the key. But nowadays, people want it to be more advance and nice looking!

26. Rounded Corner Tab Menus

Rubique has a quick tutorial on how to use CSS to make rounded corners for your Wordpress menus.

27. Using Sliding Doors with Wordpress Navigation

The Sliding Doors technique is a great way to utilize CSS and background images to make tabbed navigation. WPHacks shows us how to utilize Sliding Doors to enhance Wordpress navigation.

28. Wordpress Categories in a Horizontal Drop-down Menu

How to use CSS and Javascript to make a horizontal drop-down menubar.

29. How To: Making a Categories Drop-Down Menu

Making a Categories Drop-Down Menu.

30. Magazine style Horizontal dropdown menu

Magazine alike horizontal dropdown menu. Great one!

31. Dynamic Menu Highlighting

Dynamic menu highlighting is a way to give users a reference point with which to navigate.

Comments

Well, people like to discuss, debate and even fire to each other. So, a nice comment design is necessary.

32. Styling Your WordPress Comments

How to make your comment area looks more standout.

33. Separating Trackbacks from Comments

How to separate trackbacks and comments. I also have the same tutorial here.

34. Adding Recent Comments To Your WordPress Theme

How to display recent comments in the sidebar.

35. Ajax Commenting

Implementing Ajax into comment. Make it more interactive and user friendly.

36. How-to style WordPress author comments

Make author comment more stand out.

37. Separate Comments from Trackbacks

It's a good idea to separate trackbacks from your comments.

Theme Option Or backend

38. Custom Write Panels in the Wordpress Backend

Design blog WeFunction shows us how to create extra write panels for adding extra bits to the "Write" page of the admin area.

39. Wordpress as a CMS

Wordpress isn't just a blogging tool, it can also be a CMS with the help of some plugins and theme retooling.

40. Exporting Wordpress Data

Learn how to import and export your Wordpress posts and comments with this handy screencast.

41. Create an Options Page For Your WordPress Theme

In this article we will be incorporating an options panel for the ‘WordPress Classic’ theme. The methods you learn will allow you to very easily integrate it into an existing theme you’re working on.

42. Create an Options Page For Your WordPress Theme

Plugins

43. Your First WP Plugin

Mark Jaquith has a short-and-sweet screencast on how to create your first Wordpress plugin in under 5 minutes.

44. How to Write a Simple Wordpress Plugin

A step-by-step guide to a simple and fun Wordpress plugin.

45. Screencast on Writing a Wordpress Plugins

If you're rather see a visual demonstration of how to write a Wordpress plugin, look no further than the Weblog Tools Collection screencast.

46. How to create WordPress Plugin from a scratch

47. How to make a Wordpress plugin with less than 20 lines of code

48. How to Make a Social Bookmarking WordPress Plugin - Step by Step

Make a social bookamarking plugin.

Miscellaneous

49. Making Better Use of Your Error 404 Page

50. Creating a dynamic sticky

51. How To Display Ads Only To Search Visitors

52. A custom login page

53. Display Twitter messages in Wordpress

54. Allow Users To Submit Blog Post

55. Creating An Automatic Sitemap

Sitemaps help users navigate the site, as well as allow search engines to have quick access to all of your blog's pages. Here's a tutorial on how to create an automatic sitemap for your Wordpress installation.

56. Build a Dynamic Design Portfolio

A terrific guide on how to utilize the query_posts tag to create a design portfolio with Wordpress.

57. Create a User Contributed Link Feed w/ Wordpress Comments

If you're wanting to add a Nettuts+ style link feed, Collis has an excellent tutorial on how to utilize Wordpress comments to create the feed.

58. Add a Twitter Field to your Form

How to install the twitip-id plugin to include a field for commenters to leave their Twitter ID.

59. How to Add Photo Captions

Good photo captions aren't that something that Wordpress themes usually come with out of the box. This screencast shows how to correctly add photo captions into your posts.

60. RSS-Only Posts

This tutorial shows you how to create posts that only appear in RSS feeds, in hopes to improve RSS subscriber counts.

61. Wordpress SEO

Yaost has a lengthy tutorial on how to squeeze the most SEO out of your Wordpress blog.

62. Make a Random Post Button

Adding a random post button is only a SQL query and PHP snippet away.

63. Learn How to Make Your Blog Accessiblen

Most blogs don't conform to WAI/WCAG standards in terms of accessibility. Learn how to meet these standards with Bruce Lawson's accessibility hacks.

64. Blog Posts in Different Columns

If you're wanting a little more advanced look and feel to your blog, try setting the posts to display in different columns.

Notes

Am I missing something? If you have any other good resources about WordPress tutorials, feel free to leave it with your comment. I hope you enjoy this list!

Our Magazine

kailoon — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:41:40 +0000

A powerful WordPress theme special for online magazine, community, network or any site with rich content. It is modern, clean, and sexy ~ Our Magazine comes with 2 color variations, a slider for headline news, auto image resizing, advance theme option. It also provide a highly demand user link feed to allow your reader to submit news, example http://psd.tutsplus.com/ and http://kailoon.com. Our Magazine provides unique page templates for archives, full page (no sidebar) and normal page. You also can display your feed count in text. It required php5, simplexmlelement and curl enable (for the feed count). If you are looking for a community/magazine which is powerful, easy to navigate, modern and flexible. This will fit your requirements. Check out the live demo for more details.

Update ( 25 August 2010 ) - Version 3.22

Files modified: style.css, admin_function.php

Fixed error when viewing attachment page.

Update ( 10 August 2010 ) - Version 3.21

Files modified: tab-cat.php, style.css, admin_layout.php

Fixed a typo in tab-cat.php which affect the post thumbnail from function properly.
Fixed WordPress Editor conflicts.
Improve documentation regarind customizing theme.

Update ( 28 July 2010 ) - Version 3.2

Files modified: admin_functions.php, style.css, admin_layout.php

Added the function to auto check for theme updates.

Update ( 27 July 2010 ) - Version 3.1

Improved exceprt - now it will disabled all formatting and exclude image from excerpt.
You can also set the length of the excerpt.
CSS fixed - fix hover stage (sidebar) for the dark version.
WordPress MU compatible.

Massive Update! ( 20 July 2010 )

New Framework added
Localization!
Added 3 new Nav Menu
Refined overall design ( higher header and footer) and typography, re-structure files, restyle some elements.
Improve SEO, now H1 only appear on front page or home. H1 will be the article title in single post page.
Fix Jquery implementation so it will not conflict with plugins.
Related Posts with thumbnails.
You can choose how the related posts work, either based on tags or categories.
Improved user link feed. Now it is using custom comment which is more stable and flexible.

Features:

JFlow - Slider using jquery
Dropdown menu
User Link Feed - Readers can submit links
Unique page template for pages, archives, search result, author, user link feed etc.
Feed counter in text
No need to key in any custom field value, custom input field is already provided. Simply key in the url/image path when writing a post.
Ad Management system.
Smooth Tabbing system
Unique design for comment area. Comments and tracbacks separation using tabbing.
Social links ( Digg, Stumble, Delicious etc )
Threaded comment ( up to level 3) and paged comments supported
Custom Theme Option Page with custom styling and easy to use
Widget Ready
CSS/XHTML validated
Compatible to all major browsers

Price

USD 35

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Autoload Attachment From WordPress Post

kailoon — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 02:10:09 +0000

The Function

get_children() function here will return all the image attachments attached to post (identified by $postID), and assign them to our array $images. $size is the size of the attachment, you can use "medium" or "full" too.

Apply To Post

Below is the full code in order to display the attachment in front page. With this, it will check there is any attachment for the post and only the content will be displayed if there is no attachment.

Using The Functions.php

You can also call the function from the functions.php. Firstly, put this code into your functions.php. Then call the function in index.php.

Advance - Custom Field and Attachment

As we know, not all of us are using WordPress Image Gallery. Some of us may prefer to handle the attachments in a different way. Then I come up with this solution. I am using this function in my one of my premium wordpress theme - "Our Community". Considering the user might using other than WordPress Image Gallery, I have to provide some options for them. Here, the priority will be in using custom field. If there is no value for it, the function will then check for any attachment. Finally, only text will be displayed if neither of them exist.

Feedburner Text Counter To Google FeedProxy In WordPress

kailoon — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:58:18 +0000

I am using Feedburner counter with text in most of my WordPress themes. Recently, I found that they are not working properly due to the conversion of Feedburner to Google FeedProxy. Today, I found a solution thanks to one of my theme user. I will show you how to do that. I will use the feed.php in my premium theme - Our Community. If you are still using Feedburner service, then you can ignore this tutorial. This is just for those who are using Google FeedProxy.

The Existing Feed File.

Editing

Change this: Into This: And this: Into This:

Full Code:

7 CSS Tips For Beginner

kailoon — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 11:33:47 +0000

We will discuss more related to WordPress.

1. Syntax

Before we start, we need to know how CSS works.

2. How To Link To My Theme?

External CSS: In HTML, it looks like this:

3. CSS Cheat Sheat

CSS Cheet Sheat

I call it CSS Reset, it is simple an external stylesheet to reset some selector's default properties and values. It is useful to create cross browsers websites. Besides, it allow us to control the layout easily. If you are using my theme, you will notice there is one line before any CSS codes. I have read some articles claim that it is not refer to all but only most of the selectors. But so far, I don't have any problem with it.: Other sources:

4. Body

Body is a must have selector, we define font, background and font color here. If the selector is not set in with other value, value in body will be used. Example:

5. Class And ID

The symbol for class selectors is (.) while id selectors is (#), but what's the different between them?

IDs identify a specific element and therefore must be unique on the page. It can only be used once in a page.
We consider that it has the higher level than class. It is more specific.
can be used and an anchor name.

Class

Classes mark elements as members of a group and can be used multiple times.

Actually, you can use both id and class in a div or element. It's priority of attributes are depend on id first. Example: Class Multiple classes: ID: Mixed: Other sources:

6. Float And Clear

Float

Float is a very interesting topic in CSS. I found that most of the beginner will face this problem. Float or not float? I like the explaination from CSS-Tricks.

Float is a CSS positioning property. If you are familiar with print design, you can think of it like an image in a layout where the text wraps around it as necessary. by CSS-tricks

in HTML: Coding CSS is like doing mathematics. When you are using float. Remember to include the width for the container. This is mostly to avoid pushingdown in IE6. Normally, I use a float container to cover float elements inside it. It did compatible to all browsers so far. You may ask why I need 2 floated container? This is to prevent longer content in the right-col move below below of left-col.

Clear

Clear, is to clear any float elements so that they will not overlap on each other. We use clear to start a new row. Normally, I declare this at the beginning of the stylesheet. Other sources:

7. Other Findings

here are my other findings that you might interested in learning CSS more deeply:

Separate Trackbacks And Comments in WordPress

kailoon — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:47:51 +0000

WordPress 2.6

1. Open your theme folder, locate the comments.php. Look for 2. Add the following codes after it. To start the condition IF it is comment. 3. Look for 4. Add the following codes before it. To end the IF condition.

To Display Trackbacks/Pings

WordPress 2.7

The comments.php has a different structure in the new version. Let's see how it can be done. 1. Open comments.php: 2. Add the following codes after it. 3. Look for: 4. Change to this: 5. We add this codes after the wp_list_comments function.

To Display Trackbacks/Pings

The Full Loop

To Simplify the Trackbacks/Pings ( Optional )

1. In single.php. Change this: into this: 2. In Comments.php, Add this codes in the trackbacks section. You can also add into your function.php. 3. Look For: 4. Replace with this:

The Full Loop

WordPress 2.7 Comment Loop Styling

The new comments loop automatically adds some classes to the LIs tag.

comment, trackback, pingback classes get added depending on the type of the comment.
byuser - Added if the comment is by a registered user of the site.
comment-author-authorname - Added for specific registered users.
bypostauthor - Added if the comment is by the author of the post the comment is attached to.
odd and even - Classes are added to odd and even numbered comments
alt is added to every other comment
thread-odd, thread-even, and thread-alt - Classes are the same as the odd/even/alt classes, but these only apply to the top level of each set of comments and replies
depth-1 is added to the top level comments, depth-2 to the next level, and so on.

Theme Upgraded

I've upgrade my top selling theme in ThemeForest to support WordPress 2.7 threaded comments. Feel free to check it out. I also have upgraded LoonDesign and Themetation to the latest version. How about you?