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Free Women’s clothing & fashion vector
A nice vector collection from blog.spoongraphics on the Women’s fashion theme. Files available in .ia and .eps format. Very handy if you need dresses, sun glasses and other stuff.
Nice t-shirt gallery
Nothing complicated here but a great idea to display t-shirts on a e-shop. Worth a look.
Table are getting a lift
Html tables generally miss some interactivity but some javascript frameworks/plugin can sort that out for you: http://www.ultimatesmashing.com/coding/tables-javascript-frameworks-libraries/
Post sharing tooltip
Awesome use of jQuery and css to make a “share this post” tooltip. Will definitely use this very soon.
Simple Modal + Google map, easy modal map boxes with jQuery
If you don’t know what Modal box is referring to, think about Lightbox. That’s it, the ‘new way’ (rather old now) of displaying pop-up boxes. Their are many scripts to add modal boxes to your content. Some very fancy, with loads of options and effects, others very simple and light.
I needed to display Google maps for a client in one of those modal box. After 5 min searching I stumbled across SimpleModal, a jQuery plugin that works quite well and is very light-weight.
The brief is as follow: I’ve got a link that point to a google map on google’s site. I want that in a modal box displayed when a user click on a link. Continue reading “Simple Modal + Google map, easy modal map boxes with jQuery”
Create a posts by category widget in WordPress 2.8
With WordPress 2.8, Automatic introduced a new widget management panel but also a new way of making your own widgets. Before is was a bunch of messy functions, now it’s a nice widget API easier than ever.
Justin Tadlock wrote a very comprehensive article about making widget in 2.8 and I will use this to make a widget that displays only posts from a given category name. In CMS like build I often need a way to display the recent post from the new/blog category and I always end up pasting a custom WP_Query. And I am not happy about that. I’d rather use a widget that will do the job for me from the admin.
(If you just want the code and don’t care about the explanations the file is downloadable here. Just include it in your function.php file and you’re done.)
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10 Mistakes you could avoid in wordpress plugin development
Even the best idea can be made useless if the implementation isn’t up to standard. I’ve learnt how to make plugins mainly by opening the code of other people in trying to understand it.
After a few month of development I can see the differences between good and bad code. Like in graphic design, the details in coding are important too. Even if all the plugins I have tested were working fine most of them could have used a rewrite, so here are a few things I think one shouldn’t do when developing a plugin.
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New Poll: How do you start your WordPress plugins development projects?
My present work involve working with WordPress a lot and one good thing about Wp is how easy it is to extend it using plugins. Even without any programming knowledge one should manage to install pretty much any plugin from the repository. But what if you don’t find the plugin you need to do the job?
I think every WordPress developer should learn how to write plugins:
- It saves time on the long run, no more core hack, just write what you need in a plugin.
- You can re use a plugin very easily on other projects, just copy paste the folder and activate
- It’s insanely rewarding when you get you plugin to work :p
- You can get WordPress to do anything with plugins, and I mean it, anything.
Because I’ve been writing plugins for the past month or so I wanted to get some feedback from other people on how they start writing their plugins.
So if you can spare a sec and vote on the poll on the right hand side that’d be much appreciated.
I will also write a post on things I think people should know before starting to right a plugin because to learn my way around all the hooks and action I’ve looked at many plugins from the repository. And they are not all written in the same standard if you see what I mean…
Import Data from any database into Wordpress
I recently had to find a way to import hundreds of pages into a Wordpress site from a Access database. I considered two solutions: query the Access db and insert the data into Wordpress or query the Access db and write an xml file that would match a Wordpress export.
I went for the second option because there are some database stuff I am yet not too sure about and I was afraid I would get corrupted data.
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