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Packaging plugins with themes

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...

Admin bar not showing

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...

Accessing a WordPress database

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...

Searching your gmail account

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...

Sizing your online banners

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...