Archive for category ProBlogDesign
WordPress theme option panels were a tremendous stride in the world of theme development; they gave site owner’s the ability to modify various aspects of their site, without ever having to touch the code. Every great theme either has or should have an extensive options panel.
In this tutorial, I’m going to demonstrate how to add a custom font uploader to your options panel. This will allow site owners to upload any number of font files and apply them to different sections of the site.
As a designer, I cringe a little at the thought of clients possibly screwing up my carefully selected fonts with their own haphazard selection, but, in the end, it’s what the client wants.
Before Starting
To begin, you first need to create your options panel. For this task, I recommend you follow Rohan Mehta’s tutorial over on Net Tuts
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Whether you’re a developer or a designer, a strong jQuery skillset is something you can’t afford to be without. Today, I’m going to show you 30 handy jQuery coding tricks that will help you make your scripts more robust, elegant and professional.
Getting Started
These tips and tricks all have one thing in common- they are all smashingly useful. With this stuff in your back pocket, you’ll be ready to go change the world, and even better, write jQuery like you know what you’re doing. It’s gonna be fun.
We’ll start with some basic tricks, and move to some more advanced stuff like actually extending jQuery’s methods and filters. Of course, you should be familiar with the basics of jQuery first. If you haven’t used jQuery before, I highly recommend browsing the documentation
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There has been another GPL storm going on in the WordPress world in the past few days. Yep, again.
I don’t normally make a comment on them, but given that I’m directly involved with it now through PliablePress themes
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Anyone following me on Twitter will already know this by now, but our big project, PliablePress
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(This is more of a personal post than normal. If that’s not your thing, sorry, but at least I warned you!)
My name’s Michael Martin, and I’m the person behind Pro Blog Design
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My Ideal WordPress Framework
Apr 28
Last week, I broke the news that we’re releasing premium WordPress themes
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Automatically grabbing thumbnails from posts is cool. But what about automatic excerpt lengths that match the height of those photos
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Introducing PliablePress.
Apr 20
Want to know why so many of our clients in the past few months had to be turned away? Or why
Want to see the biggest project I’ve ever worked on
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Web apps are great because you can access them from anywhere, they keep all of your data safe, and for the most part, they’re straightforward to get up and running
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Have you looked near your MySQL database since you first set it up
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VPS (Virtual Private Server) hosting is the next level up from shared hosting. You get a lot more server usage for each of your dollars, but the catch is that you lose all of the easiness of shared hosting
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The trouble with Photoshop Tutorials
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The blogosphere continues to expand almost on a daily basis, and as a web designer we often inform clients of the numerous benefits of attaching a blog to their site
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Most web designers have heard of Google Analytics
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WordPress is arguably the most popular and the best blogging platform out there. You might have installed WordPress on your site, but you might be scared to experiment with WordPress worrying that you could break your site and WordPress. Read the rest of this entry »
