by Randa Clay | Feb 26, 2010 | Content Display
Learning to use custom loops is a must if you want to get beyond the basics in customizing themes for WordPress. This guide is clear and concise and even includes info about using the custom loop in the sidebar and in the Thesis theme, as well as creating a related...
by Randa Clay | Feb 21, 2010 | Plugins, Scripts & Code
I don’t know much about JQuery and scripts in general, but I’m learning that the order they’re loaded in the header can make all the difference. If you have a plugin that uses the JQuery library and doesn’t come with it, then the hook for...
by Randa Clay | Feb 21, 2010 | Error Messages
From time to time when I try to upgrade an installation of WordPress I get an error that starts “Fatal Error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted…” This means that WordPress needs a certain amount of space allocated to perform the...
by Randa Clay | Feb 16, 2010 | Scripts & Code
Very often in customizing themes, I run into the need for simple if/then/else logic. Maybe I want to display the author name only in certain categories, or I need a certain plugin to display output only on certain posts or pages, for example. Adding a quick bit of PHP...
by Randa Clay | Feb 11, 2010 | Scripts & Code
Need to have random color schemes for a site or maybe a random background image? Use this bit of PHP to load a random CSS stylesheet each time a user visits a site.