Jose M Castaneda

Tag: wordpress

  • A whole new widget experience

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    If you haven’t already then go check out and read the proposal made by Weston. When I first saw this I nearly peed my pants from joy. It was that amazing. Being able to see the widgets live is going to be a huge thing. Not just for theme developers but for plugin developers as…

  • 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…

  • So you want to become a WordPress Theme Reviewer?

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    What does it take? Some PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS knowledge and a little bit of time to spare. At least that is what it takes to get the ball rolling. Yeah, very simple. Doesn’t take much really. The basics There are some things that you really have to know in order to becoming a WordPress…

  • New look in the future

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    Let me start off by saying that it really has been some time since I even posted anything on either of my sites. Part of it is because I have been working weird, crazy hours at Starbucks and the other because I have a growing boy that loves to test my patience more than starving…

  • Theme previews are getting better

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    The current theme preview is comprised of a few sample posts and pages. That’s all good and great but let’s face it here, things have changed over the years. The biggest thing being post formats. That often helps decision making for many people. Some people want to just blog and show off their different things…

  • 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…

  • Regenerate all the things!

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    So, I’ve been dabbling with WordPress for some time and I have loved every bit of it. I even helped a few people along the way. Learned many things and met and talked to many more. Every day I do feel like I am learning something new. Whether that is how to enqueue a certain…

  • 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…

  • 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…