WPCandy

Our WPCandy v1 WordPress Theme uses a nifty, little script called Scrollovers. A while back when I was developing the theme, I ran into a bit of a problem with the script and WordPress. I wanted to add some bam to the nav with Scrollovers and also use the wp_list_pages tag in order to keep the dynamic nature of the navigation. But see, with Scrollovers, the anchor for a link requires a class and type value of “scrollovers”, which isn’t possible to accomplish with WordPress. As a result, I moved on by simply hardcoding the links in the navigation, as below, and provided the appropriate documentation for users.

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WPCandy is back and better than ever. We’ve been working hard for a little over a month now, and we’re extremely proud to present you WPCandy v3. Ever since we launched WPCandy v1 in October 2007, we’ve been one of the top WordPress-dedicated blogs on the internet, bringing you the latest tips, tricks, and hacks. Today we’ve taken the site one huge step further.

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Twitter is awesome. It’s a great tool for quick communication and an even more awesome tool for social networking. If you’ve been following me on Twitter, you know I’m quite active and love to tweet (update my status) with funny and random things, but still talk about news on WordPress.

Anyways, Twitter is only fun when you’re following certain people. If you follow boring people who tweet about boring stuff, your timeline gets backed up with boring crap. That’s boring, obviously.

Here’s a list of the Twitter users, that I follow, that tweet most about WordPress news.

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Win An All-Inclusive Premium News Theme Developer’s Package

Adii is running a special until Sunday, May 25th, where you can purchase 2 Premium News Themes, for the price of one. In spirit of this new special, Adii has also been kind enough to sponsor a mini contest over here at WPCandy. All you gotta do is purchase one of the Premium News Themes, leave a comment on this post and on Adii’s post saying you’ve purchased a theme, and you’ll automatically be entered into the contest. A random winner will be chosen from the participants and will receive An All-Inclusive Premium News Theme Developer’s Package, worth $499.95, for free. Participants also have until Sunday to enter.

Adobe Prefers WordPress Over Movable Type

It looks like Adobe prefers WordPress over Movable Type. Enough to display it publicly in the sidebar of their Penguin.SWF blog. The question is, why is Adobe using Movable Type if WordPress is clearly the better of the two?

Installing WordPress On A USB Stick

Love to tweak your site’s theme while on the go, but don’t want to mess with the live copy? Learn how to install a local copy of WordPress on a USB drive. You geek.

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Tony Geer

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