Monthly Archives: February 2010

Use WordPress functions to include your CSS

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,

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Use an empty action attribute in forms

When developing a simple form to use in your WordPress theme or plugin you often want to post to the same page. To do so, simply leave the action attribute empty in your form. Notice that your_name is used, using

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Posted in Best Practices, Intermediate

Make use of the body_class function

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

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Make .htaccess and other hidden files appear in the Finder

When developing in a Mac OS X environment you quite often find yourself wondering why some files doesn’t show up in Finder. If you’re developing for WordPress, you might wonder where your .htaccess file is. This is because Mac OS

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Posted in Misc

Remember to use the Shortcode API

The Shortcode API is an excellent way to embed HTML code in your posts and pages without much effort from the user. In a recent project we had great use of the Shortcode API when we needed parts of our

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Custom CSS class for your menu items

When using the wp_list_pages function in WordPress you get a generated list of your WordPress pages. To be able to style them, the items get several CSS classes. Example: These classes work in most cases, but in thoose cases they

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