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WordPress: How to List Child Pages in Sidebar

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

One of the most common things to do with your wp_list_pages, is to use css to create a horizontal navigation. A problem can sometimes occur when you decide later to add another page s a child to an original page. WordPress by default will begin a child ul within the parent li and most of the time, this will break your pretty horizontal styling. The first solution tht comes to mind is to create dropdowns. ...

WordPress: How to Display the Parent Page Title in Your Title Meta Tag

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

In a project I'm working on at the moment, The page structure is set up using 5 main pages, and then each have their respective sub-pages. For SEO purposes, I wanted my <title> meta tag to display the page title and it's parent page title if the current page was a child page, i.e.: <title>Page Title</title> or <title>Parent Page Title — Page Title</title> So after doing a little searching and combining some code, this is what I ...

Multiple Widget “Sidebars” in WordPress Themes

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Most WordPress users love the ability to customize their front end functionality with easy to use widgets. All you do is drag and drop, make a few minor customizations if you want to, and bingo bango, customization in a flash! But something that recently stumped me was.. how can I make more than one sidebar in the theme and keep them all widgetized so that the client can then customize everything to his liking and ...

A Basic Guide to Planning Your Website

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

Many times people will contact me, and say, "I want a website, I want it to look like this, and it's about this subject." Sometimes, it's left entirely up to my imagination of where I should even start as far as what kind of content is needed and should be featured. Then once the first design comp is sent in, they come back with a mile long list of revisions because my guessing was wrong. ...