Monthly Archives: May 2010

WordPress Releases 3.0 Release Candidate

By Remkus de Vries | Published: May 29, 2010

WordPress Releases 3.0 Release Candidate: I don’t think there has ever been a WordPress release update I’ve been so eagerly waiting on as the final release of WordPress 3.0. Well, perhaps other than the jump from 1.5 to 2.0 when pages were added to the equation. This time around again we’ve got a world of [...]

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Scaling Images via the Image Upload Function in WordPress

By Remkus de Vries | Published: May 27, 2010

A great function, often times overlooked: The best way to add a bit of color to your site is by making good use of great imagery. Finding matching images for your posts can be difficult every now and then, but getting those images to show in a consistent manner throughout your site can be a [...]

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Conditional Logic and Filters

By Remkus de Vries | Published: May 25, 2010

How to get your filters working with conditionals. On a recent project using a Genesis child theme I found myself in a situation where I wanted to use a filter, but only on certain views, namely the category view and the homepage view. Adding a filter is pretty straight forward, but using that filter in [...]

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Working Behind the WordPress Curtains

By Remkus de Vries | Published: May 22, 2010

Hacking your theme should at minimum be done like this: A lot of times I hear people asking how to best approach fiddling around with certain design elements in their current theme without their visitors seeing any mistakes they make. A different version of the same question is about wanting to implement a complete new [...]

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WordCamps Need to be GPL too now?

By Remkus de Vries | Published: May 20, 2010

Interesting discussion in the comments too: Jane Wells from Automattic published an update on the WordCamp How To blogtoday which is a warm welcome to anyone wanting to host a WordCamp. I have been lucky enough to help organize a WordCamp here in the Netherlands last year and hope to repeat that this year -yes, [...]

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