Jose M Castaneda

Category: Code

  • Dealing with menu items

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    I feel as though this subject is a bit different than what I’m used to. To a certain degree it is. I’ve never really dabbled much with the menu class within WordPress. I mean I used the wp_nav_menu template tag once or twice but never really looked as to how it works. That was until…

  • Playing nice with plugins

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    Yep, you read that right. Playing nice. With plugins. I know what you’re thinking and are probably wondering what I mean by that. Don’t lie You know you want to ask. What do you mean by that? What I mean is that as a themer you shouldn’t be adding frivolous things to your theme. What…

  • Make things a little more accessible

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    I was asked to redesign a site not too long ago and I’m pretty pumped about. Not going to lie. What I do like is that the site already has plenty of content to work with. The trick will be creating a good user experience for the person I will be handing off the site…

  • Choosing the right path

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    It’s no secret that I love using WordPress and love design. Those are pretty obvious if you’ve known me for some time. I guess you could say I’m a little addicted to WordPress. My digital meth if you will, but I also love design about the same. Working on WordPress themes is an amazing middle…

  • Filtering the page links

    Filtering the page links

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    Nothing is ever truly perfect. There are some things that do come close though. In the mean time we can make just a few changes to get our desired result. The photo above is a quick comparison of a photo I took a few years back while at Yosemite National Park. As you can see…

  • Be friendly and filter your foot

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    A brief glimpse of my WordPress.com hosted blog’s footer. I’ve had that thing for nearly six years. Yep, six years. A little hard to believe that I only have about eighty posts but it’s true. Part of that reason being me branching off and trying on a self hosted site. I wish I could tell…

  • All about my Child – Theme that is

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    Frequenting the WordPress support forum always makes wonder a lot of things. The biggest one, I hate to admit, is do people read. I know it does come off a little mean, rude but the truth is a lot of the threads that are in the forums could easily be avoided. The number one being…

  • Understanding arrays

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    Backstory For the last month I have read about JavaScript ( ECMAScript ) and how it works. To say the least I am one step closer to not being as bald as I thought I would be. JavaScript is a great language to learn and has so much potential behind it and for it. What…

  • Creating a custom comment list

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    What? Comments. That is the topic. As some may know I’m in the middle of creating a WordPress theme to submit to the repository. I want this theme to not only pass but to pass with flying colors. I followed about as close to how the default themes are but have also integrated some from…

  • Creating a sticky post slider

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    Brief background Creating a slider is simple. For some. In WordPress there are a lot of ways to creating a post slider, image slider, category slider and just about any type of slider you could possibly imagine. The one I wanted to share is creating one with sticky posts. You know the ones that you…