Posts Tagged ‘development’

You surely ran into this sometime: you’ve a hierarchical taxonomy in WordPress like Categories, you check the child terms and leave the parent terms unchecked. Next time you save the post, the hierarchical structure is broken and child items are positioned on top of parent items, like the image above on the left. In this tutorial we’re going to see how to fix this for WordPress categories and any hierarchical custom taxonomy so that the terms are displayed like the right box in the image above.

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Tags: custom taxonomies, development, tutorials, wordpress themes

While developing a WordPress theme for a sites network where the built-in calendar widget would be ocassionally included, a special background needed to be applied for the widgets area when the calendar was active, so I needed to detect if the calendar widget was active or not. In this tutorial we will learn how to detect which widgets are active in each sidebar.

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Tags: development, tutorials, wordpress themes

If you ever found strange that you could edit the terms of a custom taxonomy for a custom post type using the Quick Edit link but you couldn’t see the terms applied in the columns, you’re not alone. That’s why in this tutorial we will learn how to display those terms in the list view for our custom post types.
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Tags: custom post types, custom taxonomies, development, tutorials

This video by Ryan Carson is back from 2009 but still relevant to learn how to perform A/B  Testing using WordPress and Google Optimizer.

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• Display sidebar widgets using a shortcode in WordPress

Tags: development, user experience

The Aptana IDE has been around  for a few years now and has gained a loyal base of users (yours truly included) due to its strength, easy of use and wide support for various languages including its support for Android and Nokia development. Aptana has now been acquired by development platform Appcelerator, creators of Titanium platform for development on iOS and Android.

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Tags: aptana, development, ide, mobile

This is the last roundup from content published on 2010 on ILC and it’s dedicated to WordPress. During 2010 WordPress reached version 3.0 gaining custom post types, menus, shortlinks and custom backgrounds and headers, as well as the merge of WordPress MU and WordPress. 2011 is awaiting the release of 3.1 with some other great features so this will definitely be an exciting year for WordPress and developers community.

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Tags: custom taxonomies, development, tutorials

Check Hackety Hack for a simple but effective tutorial course on programming built on Ruby on Rails.

• Display sidebar widgets using a shortcode in WordPress
• Avoid hierarchical taxonomies to loose hierarchy
• How to detect active widgets in each sidebar
• Add columns for custom taxonomies to custom post types in WordPress
• Best WordPress tutorials in ILC in 2010

Tags: development, tutorials

Permalinks are one essential part of any WordPress installation to have a example.com/nice-url/ instead of example.com/?p=378.The translation of the ugly looking URL into the cute URL is performed by the Apache server instructed by the rewrite rules in the .htaccess file. Even though WordPress can write the proper rules, there are some rules that are said to optimize the redirection and thus the page loading time.
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Tags: development, resources

The Release Candidate 1 for the new 3.1 version of WordPress is out!

Tags: development

If you’re familiar with 960.gs but find it a bit smaller than what you would like it to be, maybe The Square Grid with its width of 994px is perfect for you.

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Tags: development, resources