Wordpress mechanic - conditional sidebar
So you want to have a different ad, sub menu, or enquiry form in different sections of your website. How do you achieve this?
It is amazingly simple to achieve if you only want to distinguish between types of pages, i.e. search pages, homepage, category pages etc…:
<ul id=”nav”>
<li<?php if ( is_home() ) { echo ‘ [...]
wordpress book theme
Wordpress is a great CMS for all manner of content - but can it cope with a whole novel? I don’t think so. But you could give one a fighting chance using this theme as a starting point:
This theme has been out a while, has a really strong community feel around the comments, and is [...]
Wordpress mechanic - running slowly?
So you think you have a slow running wordpress install. How do you quantify the slow ‘feel’ of the site before you start ranting at your host?
Here is a single line of code you can add to your theme footer to tell you how long your page took to pull together.
<p>The WP monkeys took <?php [...]
magazine style themes
A good magazine style theme can turn a pretty dull blog into a professional, readable, valuable website. It does this through two main factors.
A The layout is more digestibe to a wider audience of non blog reading web surfers. By looking like a ‘normal’ website it scares less people.
B The layout is normally far more [...]
hubspot revisited
Back in feb I ran this site through the hubspot website analyser tool and scored 71/100. Oooh - I wonder what it’ll score this time?
Thanks to my break from posting I suspect it’ll be a significant drop off if the scoring has any real meaning. So… moment of truth…
68. A three point drop despite hardly [...]
wpg relaunch
Following a brief yet all too lengthy absence, the wp guy returns to delight and entertain with wordpress related googies! Hurrah. Spinnin’ those discs of blog engine goodness!
Thanks to everyone who asked where he was hiding!
