Adding Categories And Post Tags Boxes For Custom Post Type In WordPress

By Remkus de Vries | Published: July 6, 2010

If you hadn’t read it anywhere else yet, here’s how you can add categorie and post tags boxes for you custom post types

Categories and Post Tags boxes are built-in meta boxes that have been already registered in WordPress. We can use them not only for default posts or pages but also for custom post types as well in WordPress. And this can be done easily with argument taxonomies of register_post_type function when registering new custom post type.

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Toolbox: An HTML5 WordPress Starter Theme

By Remkus de Vries | Published: July 2, 2010

Ian from Themeshaper gives us yet another theme to build with, an HTML5 theme:

The Problem: You want to start hacking away at a WordPress Theme and get your site online. You don’t want to start with a Parent Theme, or a Theme Framework. You want to make your own theme—and you want it to be ready for HTML5. Only, you don’t know where to start.

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You Need to Check out LESS.js

By Remkus de Vries | Published: June 26, 2010

Now if only CSS had been working with something like this from the get go:

You might be familiar with such services as LESS and Sass. They allow for far more flexibility when creating your stylesheets, including the use of variables, operators, mix-ins, even nested selectors. However, because LESS was originally built with Ruby, a lot of PHP developers, despite the fact that there are PHP versions available, never used it.

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WordPress 3.0: Multisite Domain Mapping Tutorial

By Remkus de Vries | Published: June 21, 2010

Multisite Domain Mapping, something a lot of people could make good use of if they take the time to get to know it. Luckily Otto walks us through:

The other day, Klint Finley wrote a very good walkthrough of using the new Multisite functionality of WordPress 3.0. In the comments, a lot of people wanted to know how to use your own Top-Level-Domains. Since I’m doing that now, here’s a quick walkthrough/how-to guide.

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What Have You Done With Your Trackbacks?

By Remkus de Vries | Published: June 16, 2010

To allow trackbacks or not, that’s the question:

I saw an interesting tweet fly by today from Ozh in which he offered advice to ditch the Trackbacks all together on a WordPress blog. Which got me to think, do we really need trackbacks or have the become just another version of spam most of you like to get rid of? The question has been on the minds of people for quite some time now, but with the recent outburst of trackback spam I think the question has become quite relevant again.

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