Tag Archives: WordPress
Behind the Websites: WordPress Theme Elements
September 26, 2011
When producing a theme, we try not to limit the website owner’s options within the WordPress Dashboard. The owner may wish to enable an option down the track and be disappointed to find they can’t.
Quick Notes: Big Red Framework on WordPress.org
August 26, 2011
Big Red, the Soupgiant WordPress framework, has been added to the WordPress.org theme repository.
Quick Notes: Big Red Framework
April 28, 2011
We’ve updated the base WordPress theme we use at Soupgiant for WordPress 3.1+ and to make more use of the WordPress API. Along with the standard features you would expect in a WordPress framework, it includes templates for the Theme My Login plugin, custom default code for Formidable / Formidable Pro plugins, custom html output […]
Quick Notes: Soupgiant WordPress themes on Github
December 14, 2010
The Soupgiant base WordPress themes are now available on GitHub. There’s no documentation at this stage, I’ll write up a blog post with details in the coming week.
Behind the Websites: JavaScript Localisation in WordPress
September 2, 2010
I was asked on Twitter recently if it’s possible to pass WordPress data to JavaScript, wp_localize_script() is the tool to do it with.
Tags: coding, JavaScript, themes, WordPress, wp_enqueue_script, wp_localize_script
Behind the Websites: Delay Print Stylesheets Plugin
August 27, 2010
A few weeks ago I wrote a post in which I adapted an idea from a zOompf article to delay the loading of print stylesheets until after a web page has fully rendered. I’ve decided to convert the code from the original post into a plugin and add it to the WordPress plugin directory.
Tags: CSS, JavaScript, plugin, WordPress
Behind the Websites: Delay loading of print CSS
July 28, 2010
Recently I stumbled across an article detailing browser performance with the CSS print media type. In most recent browsers the print stylesheet held up rendering.
The article suggested a solution, which I decided to automate for WordPress.
Tags: coding, CSS, JavaScript, WordPress
Behind the Websites: Thesis V WordPress, Pearson V Mullenweg
July 15, 2010
Mullenweg believes that, because WordPress is released under the GPLv2 license, all themes and plugins developed for WordPress must also be released under the same license. Pearson disagrees. I believe that Mullenweg is wrong. WordPress themes can operate on other blogging platforms with minimal changes.
Tags: blogging, Chris Pearson, GPL, Matt Mullenweg, Movable Type, themes, Thesis, WordPress
Behind the Websites: Getting the bloginfo correctly
July 13, 2010
One of the standout problems when using plugins with WordPress MS is when they define a constant for the plugin’s url as the script starts executing.
Tags: bloginfo, coding, domains, plugin, theme, WordPress, WordPress MS
Behind the Websites: ‘Skip to Content’ Links
July 8, 2010
Josh and I were discussing the positioning of Skip to Content links on a website. In the past I’ve placed these in the first menu on the page, usually positioned under the header.
Tags: Accessibility, Best Practice, coding, content, JAWS, screen readers, WordPress