After a long time since my last post, I’m going to start writing again. My focus on the next articles will be CodeIgniter. The first thing I want to show is how to integrate CodeIgniter with WordPress. More precisely, I’m going to show how to use WordPress users inside CodeIginter. The motivation for this is that you won’t need to handle user authentication inside your application.
Adding Custom Information to WordPress Posts
By Oscar Dias on September 12th, 2010 with 5 Comments »In this article I’m going to show how to add custom information to your WordPress posts. We’ll start with the standard custom fields, very useful if you’re the theme developer and the only blogger. Next I’ll show you how to create your additional fields. They’re work pretty much like the custom fields, but you can add a name and description to them, so your theme users know what to write there. The last thing I’m going to show is the custom taxonomies added in WordPress 3.0.
PHP Class: First Person View
By Oscar Dias on August 21st, 2010 with 6 Comments »This article is about a small PHP Class that I wrote this week. The idea was to create a first person website for a virtual tour or a street view functionality. So I created the First Person View Class which allows you to move in four directions with four different angles through a map matrix loaded with images.
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Creating a WordPress Theme (Part 6): Footer
By Oscar Dias on July 23rd, 2010 with 3 Comments »This is the last part of the series. We’ve already seen the design creation, an introduction about the WordPress platform and the coding and styling of the entire theme except the footer. So, in this last post, we’re going to do the footer and, to finish our blog, let’s also see some plugins. The footer is pretty simple and we’re going to add some additional styles that we’ve been using during the series.
If you want to catch up with the current status of our theme, please download it here.
Agile Brazil 2010 – Brazilian Conference on Agile Methods
By Oscar Dias on July 2nd, 2010 with no Comments »Last week took place in Porto Alegre, Brazil, the Brazilian Conference on Agile Methods – Agile Brazil 2010. The event was a great opportunity to see presentations about different methods and experiences related to the agile community. I was there and I want to write a little bit about what I saw.
Creating a WordPress Theme (Part 5): Pages and Posts
By Oscar Dias on June 22nd, 2010 with no Comments »In this part of the series we’re going to create the templates used for pages and posts. The page template is very simple because it only has the basic structure of our design. The post template has more details, which makes it more complex. In order to complete the post page, we’re also going to do the comments template.
The current file with the current theme can be downloaded here.
Creating a WordPress Theme (Part 4): Home Page
By Oscar Dias on June 7th, 2010 with 2 Comments »As we continue with our theme’s development, I’ll show you in this article what changes we need in our index.php. So we’ll continue changing the files we copied from the Default theme and we’ll create new CSS styles. In order to complete the main part of our home page, we’ll also prepare our sidebar and add some functions to our theme.
If you didn’t read the previous article, click here to download our theme’s files.