Shortcodes independent of the WordPress theme? With a little button to put the code into your post area? Whoa.
Tag Archives | CSS
WordPress Tutorial Custom Post Background
Different backgrounds on different pages? Of course, but I didn’t know it’d be this easy.
StudioPress WordPress Themes
Brian Gardner over at (what’s now called) StudioPress has a beautiful collection of professional WordPress themes for sale. He updates them regularly and has a broad collection with a variety of applications (real estate, photo galleries, etc.).
Elegant WordPress Themes
You’d think, “Hey, Likoma, you’re a WordPress developer, why are you promoting other themes on your site?” Well, in a word: WOW.
Browser Shots
A client said her site looked wonky in Internet Explorer 5.5. Of course, my first reaction is, “Internet Explorer 5.5? Well … ” But I was determined to see if it’d be an easy fix. Otherwise, I’d tell her that 0.00238% of the population uses that browser and … ” You get the idea. The [...]
WordPress Tutorial: Image Captions and Text Alignment
Captions for images are tricky enough, then add text alignment (wrapping) and CSS and it’s a recipe for disaster. Using the “Image Caption” plugin for WordPress and the simple alignment tool in WordPress, I’ll walk through aligning images, their captions, and the surrounding text.
Showing CSS to IE only (The Underscore Hack)
When IE just won’t do what you want it to do (and Firefox is happily perfect as usual), here’s “The Underscore Hack.”
Image Captions
I often get requests for the ability to add image captions to images. Technically, it’s a bit of a pain, so I usually recommend to just put some text under the photo or next to it. Better yet, use a photo gallery (e.g. NextGen). I just ran across the Image Caption Easy plugin and so [...]
Drop-down menus
I found this nifty code to create drop-down menus for WordPress. I used it on sfflatheads.
Using CSS and Blockquote
I wanted to put this up here as an example of how CSS (formatting) on a global scale can help you editing your WordPress site with the tools you have in the editing/formatting screen. Watch the video below to see how I use the blockquote icon (the indent icon) and CSS formatting to make an [...]
WP-PagesNav
Great pages plugin from adsworth.info that helps with page navigation in WordPress. Andreas Viklund is using it in WP Andreas 09 but Litquake wanted the top menu to have different hover over qualities. I knew I could get the "current" state to be a certain class and could easily do it by manually putting in [...]
Color by Numbers
Website colors use a six number/letter combination to designate colors. Go to one of these sites: Color Schemer Lynda and then click on Hue and a page will come up full of colors. I need the six number/letter name of the color you want e.g. FF0033.
