WPCandy

A few months ago I wrote an article on how to use Coda with WordPress via Clips. Well the creators of Massive Blue and Nonimage have created a site called Coda Clips, featuring a ton of clips for CSS, Expression Engine, HTML, JS, PHP, Textpattern, WordPress, and other coding languages.

While browsing through some of the clips, I noticed some tags I have never even seen before! Here’s a few that are worth mentioning:

Anyways, if you use Coda, make sure to check out this sweet resource. Oh and if you have a few of your own snippets, make sure to submit them!

Ever since Michael Cromarty decided to leave the WPCandy team in early February this year, I’ve been mostly running this blog on my own with the help of some guest bloggers. I’ve been on the lookout for a new partner to help cover the tasks Michael used to do, as well as just help with around in general. Well after a little hunt, I ended up gathering 3 2 new partners! Read more…

If you’ve ever developed a WordPress theme, you’re (hopefully) familiar with the Template Hierarchy and how the WordPress template files fit together like a puzzle.

With WordPress, you have pages that display the content you put on those pages. To style the content on these pages, we use different files in a WordPress theme (duh). But which files are assigned to which pages? That’s where the Template Hierarchy comes in. Depending on what templates are available in the theme, different files will be assigned to certain pages.

“WordPress looks for template files with specific names in the current Theme’s directory and uses the first matching template file listed under the appropriate query section below.” - WordPress Codex

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To celebrate the third annual CSS Naked Day, WPCandy has gone naked. I have temporarily removed our stylesheet to honor Web designers and Web standards. In fact, if you personally know a Web designer, thank him/her today!

“The idea behind this event is to promote Web Standards. Plain and simple. This includes proper use of (x)html, semantic markup, a good hierarchy structure, and of course, a good ‘ol play on words. It’s time to show off your .”

What does this have to do with WordPress? Not much, actually. Except that quite a few blogs (powered by WordPress) that I read have participated in this event. I thought I’d make a post just to notify you guys that WPCandy participated in this event and we didn’t just delete our stylesheet by accident.

This is a guest post by Jeff Chandler of Jeffro2pt0.com

During my interview with Small Potato, I realized that this man was very smart. As I dove into the reasoning behind why his theme club was setup in the way that it had been, a number of light bulbs went off in my head. These are just some of the pros and cons I have discovered when looking into the SP theme club.

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While at WordCamp Dallas last weekend, Matt Mullenweg talked a bit about WordPress 2.6 and what’s to come with it. It seems someone in the audience managed to get it all on tape too!

Throughout the video, Matt touches on some WordPress Stats, the WordPress Theme Marketplace, and posting with WordPress via mobiles.

Maybe in the near future, I’ll write up a post on what I would personally like to see in WordPress 2.6.

A few months back I wrote a post about having a forum here at WPCandy, but the idea slowly died and it just disappeared and I never said another thing about it. At the time, the idea seemed great, but as I thought a bit more about it, I realized forums are hard to keep up with, especially if it became popular. I’m still not sure about a full forum, so let’s try something. Let’s try a Twitter-like discussion board. This discussion board will be using Automattic’s very popular Prologue WordPress theme released a few weeks back.

If you’re up for it, join us tonight at 5pm EST (GMT-5) over at our Discuss page. Right now, there’s only a countdown, but the Discuss page will be open at around 4:45pm, to allow you guys to register and all that good stuff.

What Will We Be Discussing?

Anything related to WordPress really. This discussion page will be pretty open to anything users have to say about WordPress. There will be a few guidelines of course to make sure things don’t get too out of hand.

The Guidelines

1. No excessive profanity
2. No direct advertising
3. Post within the default tags
4. Have fun

On another note, we’ve successfully upgraded to WordPress 2.5. Have you?

First of all, happy April Fools Day. Yes, we were going to play a joke on you guys, but we ended up not continuing with our plan, simply because we didn’t want to cause any negative feedback.

Being that it’s April 1st, that means WPCandy has officially been up for 6 months! Woah. I’m not sure about you, but 6 months has gone by extremely quick. It seems like just yesterday when Michael Cromarty and myself launched WPCandy.

Anyways, here are some stats and other stuff that’s happened around here in the last 6 months.

October 2007 - March 2008 Statistics

1,260 Total Comments
10,493 Total Spam Comments
153 Total Posts
63,049 Total Unique Visitors
183,899 Total Returning Visitors
Total Revenue - $610
Total RSS Subscribers - 1415
Alexa Ranking - 63,306
Technorati Ranking - 9,592
Google Pagerank - 5

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