by suleski | Apr 9, 2014 | Products, Technical
As I develop a new theme, I want to package plugins with my theme. Normally, plugins are installed under wp-content/plugins – but if you are distributing your theme, you need a clean, WordPress-familiar way of distributing the corresponding plugins as well...
by suleski | Apr 9, 2014 | Technical, Troubleshooting
I am developing a new theme from scratch. Came across an issue where the black admin bar (runs along the top of a site for Administrators) was not displaying. Turned out that I had wp_head() called from within my header.php file, but did not have wp_footer() called...
by suleski | Dec 23, 2013 | Reference, Technical
Ever see code like this? function my_special_function() { global $wpdb; $wpdb->get_results( “select * from tbl_blah” ); } There’s a special variable that WordPress sets up called $wpdb. It is a window into the database – something that a...
by suleski | Dec 23, 2013 | Reference, Technical
At the top of the gmail screen is a textbox that acts as a filter against all existing email. Typically, you might use this textbox to search for emails with specific terms found in the body. However, this textbox has a whole lot more to filter against. Here’s...
by suleski | Dec 7, 2013 | Reference, Technical
If you are creating banners for your site, you can create whichever shapes/sizes you wish. But, if you want to put advertisements up supplied by a place like Google’s Adsense, you want to probably follow some sizes that are supported (all listed in pixels and...