Jose M Castaneda

Category: Code

  • Issues with my_query

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    Recently I was in the middle of creating a theme that had support for a front page and blog with featured posts that displayed in a certain manner. I read up on how to create a new WP_Query and felt pretty confident I would be able to get the desired results. Yeah, I was a…

  • Archive widget at a glance

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    Today I put the finishing touches to my customized archives widget. While I am tempted to submit it to the WordPress plugin repository I will hold off for a little bit. The reason: I’m not quite ready. That will usually be my excuse. Enough of that on to the code! The issue I love using archives…

  • Displaying the gallery count and the images

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    Sometime last week I had an idea that finally managed to come alive. More and more I have been getting more and more ideas when it comes to creating WordPress themes. The most recent one being a theme that – much like twenty-thirteen does – showcases post formats. I still have to work with audio,…

  • Regular Expressions and I

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    The last two days have been a little weird for me since I’ve had this idea on how I want my image galleries to look like in the front page and I have yet to find the right solution. I’ve had to resort to using what I’ve never really tried exploring just yet: Regular Expressions.…

  • Working with mobile first mentality

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    This has been the biggest issue for some time now. How I want to execute it. All one stylesheet or separate ones and have the server load it depending on what it is given. Each one has its own drawbacks and perks to it. Reading about mobile design these last three days has slowly opened…

  • New ideas and learning from them

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    One day while at work I was talking to one of the girls and brought up the fact that I love to mess around with WordPress. She was delighted to hear that because she was starting a personal blog for her child’s milestones. She was on the lookout for a good theme for her newly…

  • Recent Trends

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    I call them trends some might call it practice. I think both are fairly close to one another but practice is more the term I should be using since I am referring to code. What makes for a practice? Especially when it comes to programming? Who decides and says a certain way is good? Yeah…

  • Learning with practice

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    The progress of my theme is decent. I have been learning how to work with Git and SVN more and more. I did recently have a little conversation with @ipstenu on Twitter about learning version control. Yes, I am still learning how to harness the power of simple commits and getting the hang of how to…

  • HTML validation issues

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    If it’s one thing I hate it’s loading up a site, click on something and then the layout gets all wonky on me. For the last two years I have read and learned about HTML and CSS validation. The one thing I have learned is that there are people out there that don’t care for…

  • Me, WordPress and Template tags

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    Recently I have been working more diligently on putting some finishing touches on my personal blog’s theme. Working on a local machine is so much easier now that I understand how it works. I remember when I started out with PHP it was painful. I got frustrated because I didn’t know where the files had…