Theme Review: PolaroidPress
PolaroidPress, like all themes featured here on WPCandy, is an amazing looking theme. It was created by Magnus Jepson, the same guy that brought you WoodPress and PortfolioPress.
Featured Sites For 02/20
Creative Briefing
Creative Briefing is the blog of Verne Ho, a web designer and creative director for a Toronto-based creative marketing agency. At a first glance you notice two things: The design, is beautiful, and the content, is rich.
Designed by: Verne Ho
How to Setup WordPress Locally on Windows
When designing WordPress themes, it’s nice to be able to store them locally to test them instead of uploading files to a web server. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to set up WordPress locally on your PC and then manage multiple blogs with their own themes.
Skeletize, Nakedize, Visualize and Sexydize Your Tag Display
Mac users always boast about the cool, sleek and sexy UI of OS X, Applications and everything else on their computers. Well, this is not limited to just one platform if you’re on the web. Everybody can design, display whatever they like in whichever way they feel best.
WordPress 2.5
I’m pretty excited about WordPress 2.5 being (hopefully) released sometime in March. According to the WordPress Roadmap, 2.5 it’s set to be released on March 10, 2008, which is a little less than a month from today.
WordPress QuickTips
Here’s a little snippet of code that could come in handy: a total post count for a blog. Put this in your page to display the total amount of posts you’ve made:
<?php the_author_posts(); ?>
This might come in handy when you’d like to display the total number of tutorials on a tutorial blog, sites indexed in a site gallery, etc.
Here’s another WordPress QuickTip that will save you some extra keystrokes. Whenever you want to link to an image, place in your site, etc, this little PHP snippet will save you the hassle of typing in the web address:
<?php echo(get_option('siteurl')); ?>
This will display the complete URL (http://www.yoursite.com) wherever you put this tag.
Modifying Individual Posts In The Loop
When coding themes, clients frequetly request things like Google ads being displayed after post #2, the top post having a differently colored background, only displaying the title for a few posts - stuff like that. You can’t do any of this inside a single Loop, so here’s how to use multiple loops to display lists of posts differently.
Good Bye, Adios, Auf Weidersehen.
I started WPCandy with Michael Castilla, hoping to stay until the end, but after a long and painful discussion with him, I’ve decided to leave WPCandy. My reasons for leaving have nothing to do with the site or Mike himself, but because I know longer have the time or effort to post on WPCandy. It’s difficult to juggle personal life, with college, work, and then still have time for WPCandy. I have barely an hour a day to myself!
