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You might be familiar with sites like Dribbble or Creattica where they show, along with the usual text tag, another tag which is simply a coloured rectangle for Dribbble or a square in Creattica. Not only do they look good but they are an effective interface element. In this tutorial we will learn how to output the tags of a post with specific classes for each tag using WordPress.
Cookies aren’t just tasty and chocolate-flavoured. They can also store useful information for your users to have a better experience on your site. They are jQuery flavoured too. In this tutorial we will learn how to use jQuery and cookies to store some user preferences in a cookie to display an specific content to the user. So, grab one of your favourite cookies and read on.
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Since last week, a myriad of sites have been incorporating the “Like” button on their sites. WordPress self-hosted blogs are not the exception and there are a huge amount of Facebook Like buttons on the WordPress Extend plugin repository. But why bloating up your WordPress installation adding another plugin when we can just add a couple of lines and get our button? Save options queries and save loading time with the following tutorial.
Otto wrote a tutorial about how to setup your Facebook Connect application.
Need to include scripts or css only on certain posts? check the techniques used by Mikoder and Beerplanet, for both a single post and a collection of posts.
Now that we are on the subject of adding options to Hybrid News theme, the topic of themes options appeared. Are there such thing as frameworks for creating a theme options page?
I’ve been working a bit with the great WordPress framework that Hybrid Theme is. It really speeds up the development process, and you can even forget about it if the blog you need is closely resembled by one of the freely available themes. For example, I built the SoloKawaii site in about three hours from achieving a colour combination, the proper typography, and coding it using Hybrid News. I also created images for the slider that displays featured news.
Hybrid News has some options to format the layout you need but sometimes you could need more options for your client or for yourself in the theme options page. In this tutorial, we will cover just that: adding another option to the theme options page.
