One of the features of my latest project, Contempora Corner, was the creation of a custom page template that is used as an visual index page for a specific category of content. These are essentially landing pages with links to all of the respective child pages. I try to organize sites to not use these [...]
Category Archives: Development Notes
Creating a thumbnail index page from child pages
One of the features of my latest project, Contempora Corner, was the creation of a custom page template that is used as an visual index page for a specific category of content. These are essentially landing pages with links to all of the respective child pages. I try to organize sites to not use these [...]
Rebuilding Thematic Feature Site with the_post_thumbnail
Anyone who’s stopped by this site more than once in the past year knows that it’s been in a constant state of change as I try out new functions, plugins or other functionality. That said, I’m really hoping to stabilize things on the back end and move most of my scratchpad work to a test [...]
Custom functionality in tabbed widgets
I recently made a number of updates to a client site that I’d done last year. Part of the initial design of this particular site called for a number of tabbed “widgets”. However, when the site was originally implemented, I was not able to find a suitable tabbed interface option within the library of WP [...]
Adding Mega Menus to WordPress
What 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.
Mega Menus redux: Integrating with WordPress navigation
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