Jose M Castaneda

Tag: development

  • One more week

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    Earlier today when I got home from work I did my usual routine of updating to the most current development version of WordPress, made sure all other applications were up to date and opened up my code editor (Notepad++) to view and edit my theme files. Since I was wide awake I tried my hand…

  • 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…

  • Theme progress – good

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    Slowly but surely my blog’s is coming together. The one thing I am now attempting to do is work out a gallery system. While I do like the Twenty Twelve’s way of presenting the image gallery I want something a little different. The way the Twenty Twelve handles the images is by linking to a…

  • Emmet – Zen Coding

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    Okay, I just recently found out about this amazing Notepad++ plugin and I am beyond in love with it! I had tried using Zen Coding but for some strange reason it didn’t work. It could have been me, to be honest. The plugin works very simply by creating shortcuts to cut the development time. These…

  • Code – Theme status: structure

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    So far I have been experimenting with adding theme options to my theme for when I get ready to actually share the theme with the WordPress community. I have the basic file structure that I want to be using for themes down the road. It is of course HTML5 and I’ll try and mess around…

  • Code – some random javascript conditionals

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    Warning: what you are about to read deals with code. Working with PHP is fun for me. At times it can be a pain but I still love it. One thing that I have been trying to find is an AJAX media query for loading certain stylesheets when the viewport is at certain widths. I…

  • My WordPress theme

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    I finally, finally got the ball rolling on what will be my theme and theme structure for this site! I am so excited about this. After having read so many posts about templates, CSS, OOCSS, SaSS, PHP and just about any random acronym you can possibly think of I finally have a name for the…