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 [...]
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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 [...]
Add the_post_thumbnail to post excerpts
WordPress 2.9 has a new post thumbnail feature that I’ve been exploring as part of this site’s layout in preparation for updates to some client sites. Adding the code below to your child theme’s functions.php file will activate the post thumbnail feature in WP2.9, then change the default content display on the home page or [...]
Mega Menus redux: Integrating with WordPress navigation
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