“Reid, you are such a blessing. Thank you for all your selfless, wonderful, top notch work for our charity and all that you do.”
Kristian Darling
Hope for the Holidays, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
Nov 24, 2011
Graphic designer since before the Internet. Started with newspaper paste-up; then art director for advertising agency in Reno, NV; and now freelancer designing marketing materials, print-on-demand t-shirt art, websites, and social media graphics.
Overview: Custom Sidebar inside a custom Category template. Problem: Client wants an ad to be placed in the sidebar of a specific Category (Wine of the Week). WP Advanced Newspaper theme doesn’t have a category.php file that I can alter. Solution: Create a custom Category template using the archive.php file, and create a custom Sidebar…
WordPress 2.7 integration with bbPress Forum (version 1.0 Alpha-6, unstable). Since this bbPress version is an unstable Alpha, it’s recommended for testing purposes only! I backed up my database and all of my files first! Here are the beginnings of my first forum installation: http://www.reidwalley.com/wordpress/forums/ My contribution to the bbPress forum: http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/basic-integration-screencast/page/2#post-23672 Share this post:…
Test shipping & tax with a few products first. Shipping, in particular, is one of the pain-points that must be worked out and tested before adding 300 products. Share this post: Share on X (Twitter) Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share on Email
I always forget the CSS URL path to background images. Thanks TechGnome from the WordPress.org Support Forums. If the path to CSS (or any file for that matter) leads off with the / that means go to the root and begin look there. A single DOT in front of the slash means look in current dir, and…
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Remove the word “Protected:” from title text of password-protected pages. Big thanks to t31os on the WordPress forums. Check out t31os’s site for more WordPress tips. The following filter function code is placed in the functions.php file, this way it doesn’t accidentally get replaced when WordPress is upgraded. <?php function the_title_trim($title) { $pattern[0] = ‘/Protected:/’;…