Extend The Native WordPress Gallery

by Tracy Ridge | Posted on May 7, 2012 | Gallery, Resources, WordPress Resources

The WordPress media management has improved significantly over the years and the inclusion of the WordPress gallery feature back in 2008 enabled for you to display your galleries and link to either attachments pages or the image itself. However there are some features that would enhance the WordPress Gallery even further but are not currently featured in the latest version and not sure if they have been proposed in the next release. Here are just a few of them!

Integrate WP Single Post Navigation into your WordPress Theme

by Tracy Ridge | Posted on March 11, 2012 | CSS, PHP, WordPress Hacks, WordPress Tutorial

This tutorial shows you how to integrate the WP Single Post Navigation into your theme without using the plugin. I initially attempted to use the plugin and for some reason it didn’t work on my custom child theme based on TwentyEleven so I decided to hard code it into my theme by adding it to my functions.php. I will show you two methods, one to display the default WordPress single post navigation and one to display how to reverse the links for a book like affect.

Display Your WordPress Recent Posts on a Static Page

by Tracy Ridge | Posted on February 12, 2012 | CSS, Tutorial, WordPress Tutorial

This tutorial shows you how to display your recent posts on a static web page. So now you ask the question ‘Define Static?’ There are a variety of reasons why you may have static pages. You could, for example, have built a website from scratch and then decided to integrate a blog or news section into it and require to pull some information from the blog to your homepage. There has been several methods on the web including directly accessing the database. This is a simple but elegant solution in which I will show you 2 methods, one of which will be on a page with a .php extension and another will be on a page with a .htm extension.

WordPress Navigation- Dropdown Menu Image

by Tracy Ridge | Posted on February 15, 2011 | CSS, Graphics, Tutorial, WordPress Tutorial

Having ~~just~~ previously updated my theme to make use of the WordPress navigation menus I decided I wanted to have a indicator to display that there is a drop down menu. This can be done many ways with plugins etc but I wanted to do it without the need of a plugin. So I had a think and came up with this idea which requires very little knowledge to carry out.

New World WordPress Theme

by Tracy Ridge | Posted on April 18, 2010 | WordPress Themes

New World was an adaptation of my 3rd theme. It is lightweight and suitable for all audiences. It includes a customisable social networking header that has it’s own admin area. Comments are written throughout the template files to aid your customisation. Once downloaded please read the readme.html in the instructions folder for general F.A.Qs. The latest version is 1.3.2 which was released on 3rd February 2011.

WordPress Theme Poll

by Tracy Ridge | Posted on October 14, 2009 | Poll

This is just a simple WordPress Theme poll to find out what features you look for in a WordPress theme, just to get a simple understanding of what users require. If you require an option that is not on the list then please leave a comment.

New To WordPress, Now What?

by Tracy Ridge | Posted on October 10, 2009 | Resources, WordPress Resources

So you have just installed WordPress? Not sure what to do next or which order to do it in? Here is a little guide to help get you started with you new WordPress blog.

WorldOWeb WordPress Theme

by Tracy Ridge | Posted on September 21, 2009 | WordPress Themes

WorldOWeb WordPress theme was my original theme that I have decide to release. It is a lightweight theme which is suitable for all audiences. It has been tested with wordpress 2.7 upwards. The latest version is 2.2.9 which was released on 3rd October 09.