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New in WordPress 2.9: Post Thumbnails!

Adam Patterson — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:41:09 +0000

With the latest update to WordPress 2.9 you now have access to a few new functions to handle thumbnails for blog posts.

I will keep this quick as it is a simple process.

You will need to let wordpress know that your theme supports thumbnails. For this we need to open functions.php and declare thumbnail support. For this we add the following line of code.

add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );

We will need to set the thumbnail dimensions now.

set_post_thumbnail_size( 80, 80);

It should be noted that this method of resizing will produce an…

Beef with WordPress Stat Pluins.

Adam Patterson — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:30:08 +0000

I’m always interested in know were were my visitors are coming from and how they got here. I have tried many Stat options. WordPress.com Stats, Fire Stats, and Live Stats. What you might not think of is the load on your Database. One visit might be minute but depending how how the Stats are set up to record the meta data you could be storing a couple kilobytes per visit.

Whats a couple KB you say? well if you take your IP address, the date, the page you landed on, the page you came from, and ID# and…

And I’m A Mac

Adam Patterson — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:53:22 +0000

A few days ago i found andimapc.com and made my own version. It follows the format saying then catch phrase. Another example is When Obama Wins. I spent a little over 2 hours creating the site, another 30 min changing the design to be less like andimapc.com, and then a few hours creating a moderation system for it due to abusers.

Go have a look.

Admin Comment Highlighting for WordPress

Adam Patterson — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:45:34 +0000

I tried a few examples from the internet and neither seamed to work properly so i adapted the two that i found.

First things first:
Open your comments.php file and look for a line like this.

<li class="<?php echo $oddcomment; ?>" id="comment-< ?php comment_ID() ?>">
</li>

Second:
Simply past the following code replacing the PHP “< ?php echo $oddcomment; ?>“. Replace my@mail.com with your email that your wordpress admin account uses.

Note: This email address will not be viewable by the public as it is parsed in the php, it will not be displayed.

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WordPress 2.5 = All Good

Adam Patterson — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:07:37 +0000

This morning i installed the new WordPress 2.5 and it went without a hitch. Something mush have changed between yesterday and today.

Now i can enjoy the change in scenery. Speaking of scenery, i got my camera back, seams to be in fine working order. I need to get some free time to over the photos that have been sitting in there folders for the past few months.

Also check out http://www.thewonderingphotographer.com/ were i have about 25 images posted, and there is a new one every day. Please comment and rate the photos! Its more for show and…

WordPress 2.5 RC2 = Not Cool!

Adam Patterson — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:51:07 +0000

This morning i installed the new WordPress 2.5 RC after testing it on my dev install with out any issues. This was not the case when i decided to upgrade Studio Lounge. I got a fetal error from a taxonomy.php file and every thing broke, the front end as well as the back end, i was forced to revert back to WordPress 2.3.3. I have logged the error and have no idea why it happened, i only how the issue is fixed by the time it is released.

Ultimate Tag Warrior

Adam Patterson — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 22:23:48 +0000

Ultimate Tag Warrior seams to break WordPress 2.3 so the tagcloud is more of a drizzle until its updated.

I am using the new internal WordPress Cloud at the moment and it lacks the auto generation that i like, but it seams to be doing the job.

WordPress wp_list_pages Hack

Adam Patterson — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:29:24 +0000

I’m working on a template that was designed to have Tabs and I really didn’t think to much of it, I naturally assumed that it would be possible to add a <span ? tag around the title in the site navigation. Um yea not true. After a bit of searching I found a line in the classes.php in the wp-includes folder that looks like this (around line 517 in version 2.2):

$output .= $indent . '<li class="' . $css_class . '"><a href="' . get_page_link($page->ID) . '" title="' . attribute_escape(apply_filters('the_title', $page->post_title)) . '">' . apply_filters('the_title', $page->post_title) . '</a>';

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wp-admin Drop Menu

Adam Patterson — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 07:08:23 +0000

This plug in deserves a mention, i tried a drop down plug in a few months ago and was not please with it. it was full of bugs and i promply removed it. but i actually found this one by mistake while looking for a download manager. This one is called “Admin Drop Menus Version 2.0.5” by Yellow Swordfish. There plug in is stylish and fast and supports the latest version of word press currently 2.1

Php Switch with a cookie

Adam Patterson — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 21:22:30 +0000

The Php Switch is a neat little script. it can be used for a lot of different things. but today we will create a script that will let a user change what style sheet they want and the script will create a cookie to remember the users input.

we can start off by making a few different style sheets. All i did is changed the background colour, you could change whatever you want with these files.

step 1: the css

body {
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	background-color: #0066CC;
}

a:link, a:active, a:visited {
	font-size: 10px;
	color:

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Plugins on my site

Adam Patterson — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:11:02 +0000

WordPress out of the box is a great tool but thanks to these plugins and the people that made them it can be just a little bit better! it took a lot of searching and countless tries of other versions of most of these plugins but i pretty much have them nailed down now. so i feel it is my responsibility to share my findings with the public.

anything else you notice that seams different on my site may be a modification and if i can help you out jsut leave a comment and ill see what i can…

Horizontal Navigation

Adam Patterson — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 00:06:13 +0000

Horizontal navigation is huge on the internet and the easiest way to do it is with a little bit of CSS. The first step is to make your navigation list:

<div id="navigation">
<ul id="navlist">
<li><a title="Home" href="step-1.php">Home</a></li>
<li><a title="Link1" href="step-1.php?title=link1">Link1</a></li>
<li><a title="Link2" href="step-1.php?title=link2">Link2</a></li>
<li><a title="Link3" href="step-1.php?title=link3">Link3</a></li>
</ul>
</div>

Example (step1)

/*       Navigation      */

#navigation {
height: 20px;
font-size: 12px;
padding-top: 0px;
padding-right: 0px;
padding-bottom: 0px;
padding-left: 10px;
width: 500px;
float: left;
background-color: #333333;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
margin-left: 0px;}#navlist {
margin: 0;
padding:

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PHP if Statement

Adam Patterson — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 07:53:51 +0000

A lot can be done with a basic if statement, this is why it is so important to programmers. its boils down to basic logic. “if something is true then do it., if not do something else.”

here is a quick example:

$name = "Adam";
if ( $name == "Adam" ) {
echo "Hello Adam!"; }
echo "Welcome to my homepage!";

This is what would display:

Hello Adam!
Welcome to my homepage!

If we had a statement that was equal to false then we would see this:

$name = "Bob";
if (

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WordPress Theme

Adam Patterson — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:39:37 +0000

A lot of people for the first time opening up WordPress can be over come by all of the stuff that there is to a theme. I like many others, one tip I can offer is to open up your header.php footer.php and sidebar.php and insert a php comment or an html comments, making sure not to put and html comment at the top of the header page, it will cause your problems later on down the road.

what i then do after that is viewthe source code in my visually un altered WordPress theme. open up your favorite…

Php Lister

Adam Patterson — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 15:05:44 +0000

Let’s create a file lister that will go perfect with an upload script that will come later on. First well make a variable ($maindir) this is the location on your web server you want to list.

Now we us another variable ($mydir) and give it a opendir handle, now opendir is to be used with closdir as well, so remember this.

We also don’t want to show all the files, so we create another variable ($exlude) we make it an array and put in things like the name of the file or anyfile you dont want listed, in this example…

Php Redirect

Adam Patterson — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 15:04:07 +0000

This is really quite basic so there isn’t much to explain the header sends a raw HTTP header to the browser, the out come with this is a redirect.

< ?php header("Location: http://www.domain.com"); ?>

For more information on the header function see php.net.

Php Case statement

Adam Patterson — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 15:03:04 +0000

First I have to explain a bit of how this works. We use what’s called a URL query string, You have probably scene something like this “index.php?name=test” Were it says name is referring to the case statement. In any other example, if u were to put hello $name and use the URL file.php?name=James then the out put would be “hello James”?.

So in this case name will be the case you wish to communicate with and the page you wish to view is tutorials thus we use index.php?name=tutorials, in my case I use 2 one for content and one for…