Author Archives: ElShaddai

Remove sidebar

By ElShaddai | Published: January 20, 2010
Add this function to functions.php to remove the sidebar from a Thematic child theme (either globally or conditionally): // Remove sidebars from feature template function remove_sidebar() { // We test if we are on the page template 'Feature' if (is_page_template('feature.php')) { // Yes, we are .. now we switch off the sidebar return FALSE; } [...]

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Adding Mega Menus to WordPress

By ElShaddai | Published: November 27, 2009
megamenuWhat does it take to replace the jQuery dropdown menus in the popular Wordpress framework, Thematic, with a multi-category, multi-column "mega menu" structure? Part 1 of this topic examines a possible jQuery-based solution and outlines some basic integration choices.

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Why your meeting request just ruined my day

By ElShaddai | Published: October 8, 2009
OutlookCalendarA coworker passed along a link to an interesting article, "Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule", yesterday. Essentially the author identifies two ways of approaching the schedule of a working day, which he calls the manager’s schedule and the maker’s schedule.

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A “fix” to PhatFusion’s Image Menu script

By ElShaddai | Published: July 23, 2009
imagemenuI’m using phatfusion’s Image Menu script on a new client project. It’s a pretty cool script, using a set of images to build a horizontal menu that expands and collapses as you rollover each image.

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Converting a Typepad blog to WordPress

By ElShaddai | Published: July 20, 2009
wpA recent client launch involved moving a blog from Typepad to Wordpress, including everything from content to site design. While the latter was relatively trivial to rebuild, I would not have been able to convert the content without a set of instructions found on foliovision’s website.

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