Add WordPress Menu Description

24 Nov By 8 Comments

So I have been thinking about a blog redesign for a little while. I am not really happy with the current design so I have been keeping my eye on things that I like and how I can incorporate it into my design.

One of the things that has been catching my eye was the descriptive text in the WordPress menus of some sites. Some examples can be see in WooThemes in both the free BlogTheme and the commercial offering f0101 & Busy Bee. I also noticed Grid Focus a free WordPress theme that has the effect that I was looking for. The biggest thing that I noticed was they rewrote the wp_page_menu() function. Some of them rewrote the dynamic classes but missed a few(WooThemes). I knew there had to be a better way so I kept searching. I ran across ThemeShaper and the post WordPress Menu Tricks and it looks like John Kristian took this a giant step further to include options to add categories and drop down menus and more flexibility with his post A Smarter Menu for WordPress BUT these solutions required an additional function to be added to the WordPress template.

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How to add top login to the WordPress Thesis theme

7 Mar By Leave a Comment

I have gotten a few requests from people that would like to add a top login to a Thesis based website. I wanted to make this as easy as possible so with only 1 file upload, a few lines of code to custom_function.php and custom.css and you will have a working top login. I separated the actual login code into it’s own file so your custom_functions.php doesn’t get too out of hand. I have provided a zip file download available at the bottom of this post.

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Drupal, Joomla, and WordPress go head to head!

20 Feb By Leave a Comment

This should be a very interesting contest…

There’s no shortage of people willing to rhapsodize about why their favorite open source content management system is better than everyone else’s. So it’s sure to be interesting to watch three skilled, dedicated teams trying to prove the superiority of Drupal, Joomla, and WordPress, respectively, in a three-way showdown next month at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival.

Check out Information Week for more info.

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Thesis 1.4 a WordPress theme ready for download!

28 Jan By Leave a Comment

thesis wordpress themeIf you using WordPress without Thesis, take NOTE. You need to check this theme out.

This theme defines flexibility.

Do you want a 1 column, 2 column, or 3 column layout? It’s there..
Do you want a magazine layout? It’s there…
Do you want an easy path to upgrade? It’s there…

Have a look at some of the latest features.
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How to add the Popularity Contest plugin to a Thesis themed wordpress site

6 Nov By 2 Comments

In a previous post I talked about how to make the Popularity Contest plug-in work with WordPress > 2.6. This post will discuss how easy it is to add it to a Thesis theme using a widget.

This post assumes that you already have followed the previous post and have a working Popularity Contest plug-in.

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