Digital Visions Queenstown » Quick Tips http://www.dvq.co.nz "KickAss Cool" Web Development Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:47:39 +0000 en hourly 1 Quick WordPress Theme Tips http://www.dvq.co.nz/wordpress/quick-wordpress-theme-tips/ http://www.dvq.co.nz/wordpress/quick-wordpress-theme-tips/#comments Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:49:39 +0000 Matt http://www.dvq.co.nz/?p=365 1. Page Titles

Instead of using the standard:

<title><?php wp_title('&laquo;', true, 'right'); ?> <?php bloginfo('name'); ?></title>

You can add a little more to it, so that you have control of the title of the home, search, author, single pages etc.

<title>
<?php if ( is_home() ) { ?><?php bloginfo('name'); ?> &raquo; <?php bloginfo('description'); ?><?php } ?>
<?php if ( is_search() ) { ?><?php bloginfo('name'); ?> &raquo; Search Results<?php } ?>
<?php if ( is_author() ) { ?><?php bloginfo('name'); ?> &raquo; Author Archives<?php } ?>
<?php if ( is_single() ) { ?><?php wp_title(''); ?> &raquo; <?php bloginfo('name'); ?><?php } ?>
<?php if ( is_page() ) { ?><?php bloginfo('name'); ?> &raquo; <?php wp_title(''); ?><?php } ?>
<?php if ( is_category() ) { ?><?php bloginfo('name'); ?> &raquo; Archive &raquo; <?php single_cat_title(); ?><?php } ?>
<?php if ( is_month() ) { ?><?php bloginfo('name'); ?> &raquo; Archive &raquo; <?php the_time('F'); ?><?php } ?>
<?php if (function_exists('is_tag')) { if ( is_tag() ) { ?><?php bloginfo('name'); ?> &raquo; Tag Archive &raquo; <?php  single_tag_title("", true); } } ?>
</title>

2. Body Classes

To gain more control over the styling of your pages, you can set it up so that the title of each post is applied as a class to the body element.

<body class="<?php echo $post->post_name; ?>">

You can take this even further by adding classes for the type of page (ie. 404, search, archive etc.), the operating system and browser that the visitor is using.

For more information on this check the Sandbox and Thematic themes.

3. Dynamic Copyright

Often I see website footers that say “Copyright 2008″.

To make it so the year is automatically updated for you, just add:

Copyright &copy; <?php echo date("Y"); ?> <?php bloginfo('name'); ?>.
]]> http://www.dvq.co.nz/wordpress/quick-wordpress-theme-tips/feed/ 2 Quick Tip #1 – Link Borders http://www.dvq.co.nz/quick-tips/quick-tip-1-link-borders/ http://www.dvq.co.nz/quick-tips/quick-tip-1-link-borders/#comments Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:15:38 +0000 Matt http://www.dvq.co.nz/?p=229 Instead of styling your links with the default text-decoration attribute, why not try applying the border-bottom attribute. By doing so you can apply different colors to both the text and the underline creating unique effects not achievable with the text-decoration attribute.

CSS

a { text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid #d0d0d0; }

The effect can also be used to create interesting hover effects.

Do you have a creative way you style your links? Why not leave a comment and tell us about.

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