Posted by: Vincent on: June 30, 2011
The company I work for is currently hiring a front end developer. So if you’re located in Stockholm, Sweden or willing to relocate you should definitely check it out! We have put together a small site for you turn into HTML as a work sample, which could be fun as a night activity! More info [...]
Posted by: Vincent on: April 2, 2011
The Rich Text Editor (RTE) in WordPress use a JavaScript-library called tinyMCE. It is a widely used library and can be configured in a lot of ways. WordPress let developers filter the settings to tinyMCE so that it fits your needs. These few lines of code changes the buttons in the editor, and also adds [...]
Posted by: Vincent on: September 1, 2010
As suggested by Phil Irish, the best way to make browser specific CSS is with a class on the body element rather than separate CSS files or complex hacks. In his example he used conditional HTML to create multiple body-tags, but with this simple function you can just add the browser name and version to [...]
Posted by: Vincent on: March 22, 2010
When inserting an image into the rich text editor you get the following: When viewing the code in the HTML tab you see that the following Shortcode is created: And the Shortcode creates the following HTML: When developing new themes it really helps to use the existing markup. You could redo the HTML if you [...]
Posted by: Vincent on: February 21, 2010
When I’m not developing for WordPress, I try to use a specific folder structure for my project. I have all my .css-files in the /css/-folder, all JavaScript in /js/-folder and so forth. I tried to keep this up for WordPress, and placing my CSS in the root instead of the theme folder, but this quickly [...]
Posted by: Vincent on: February 11, 2010
The function body_class was introduced in WordPress 2.8 and should be included in every theme. Include it in your HTML like so: And you will end up with something like this It can come quite handy when you want pages to have different color themes for example. Just like the classes in your navigation, the [...]
