Michael Pretty (prettyboymp)November 30th, 2010
Since the addition of custom post types to WordPress in version 2.9, one of the questions I’ve seen most on message boards and forums has been from users trying to figure out how to have their custom post type have loop pages like the built in posts post type does. Initially, when the permalink handling [...]
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Hampton PaulkNovember 18th, 2010
Though there are several steps and a few workarounds that are needed, WordPress and Facebook do play nice together. What we are trying to accomplish here is to permit a client with a WordPress site to create a page using a pre-defined template that will display on their Facebook page. This will allow them to [...]
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Pete SchiebelNovember 9th, 2010
I’ve been using CSS and non-table based layouts for about 5 years now and until recently one thing I had never had a consistent solution for was centering objects vertically. Either it didn’t come up often in designs, we purposely went around it or, if forced to, used some hacky solution. I finally decided it [...]
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Sean O'ShaughnessySeptember 22nd, 2010
In part III of this series, I’m going to cover a few more topics including Delta Indexing, Index Merging, and Distributed Indexes. If you used part I to get Sphinx up and running, and part II to get it integrated with WordPress, we’ll continue from there. Delta Indexing Using the sphinx.conf from part I, we’re [...]
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Michael Pretty (prettyboymp)September 20th, 2010
Back while helping work on WordPress 3.0 and all the changes that were involved in adding better support for custom post types, I saw a need for improving the registration of meta-boxes. Specifically, making it so custom meta handlers could be supportable like the built in ones such as the editor, excerpt, and thumbnail meta-boxes. [...]
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Pete SchiebelSeptember 9th, 2010
Here’s a quick rundown of some of the tools I use to turn a new project’s design into a shiny, new website. The goal in every case is to have the final product (website) mirror the original design… for every user. ← That’s the tricky part. I like to think of my role as the [...]
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Nik WiletsAugust 6th, 2010
I made the switch to WordPress from Drupal seven months ago and I don’t ever think I’ll go back. WordPress’ speed of development, template tags and elegant admin user interface would be to hard to give up. But as I have worked more with WordPress I’ve found there are some features from Drupal that would [...]
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Michael Pretty (prettyboymp)July 13th, 2010
Once theSphinx server is setup, we can begin with WordPress integration. The first thing we need to do capture the override the query_vars in WP_Query before it runs it’s own search. We’ll do this by running an action on ‘parse_query’ with the code below. function my_parse_query(&$wp_query) { if($wp_query->is_search && class_exists(’SphinxClient’)) { $results [...]
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Sean O'ShaughnessyJuly 12th, 2010
Sphinx is a powerful open source SQL full-text search engine. It runs as a single process in the background, and can be connected to over a specified IP and port. It supports weighted ranking of search results, different search matching modes (all words in the query, any words in the query, exact phrase), and filtering [...]
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Pete SchiebelJuly 6th, 2010
For all of the advancements in web design and development, one problem has remained: the inability to easily incorporate real fonts into websites. It’s frustrating for designers because they want to make a visually inspiring site and don’t want to be shackled by the ‘web-friendly’ fonts such as Arial, Verdana, Times New Roman, Courier, Comic [...]
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Anne divides her time between a handful of Voce client programs, both traditional PR and social media-focused.
