Jan 30
New WordPress-based Site: AnnyChih.com
Two weekends ago my sister-in-law Anny Chih asked for some help sprucing up her WordPress blog. She wanted to apply for The Best Job in the World – the Tourism Queensland online video contest where you post a 1 minute video application to become the island caretaker of the beautiful Hamilton Island in Australia – [...]
Jan 24
Code snippets from my WordCamp presentation
Here are some code snippets from my WordCamp Whistler presentation. This article will be expanded in the coming week but in the meantime here they are for anyone wanting to play around with them: Custom Page Templates in 5 lines of code <?php /* Template Name: Whatever */ ?> Custom Fields in one line of [...]
Jan 12
Speaking about WordPress as CMS at WordCamp Whistler – What do you want me to cover?
I am speaking at WordCamp Whistler on January 24th on the topic of using WordPress to create, design and manage “non-blog” web sites – in other words using WordPress as a CMS. If you follow this blog you know that I’ve been working with this concept for a long time and that in almost every [...]
Dec 19
WordCamp Whistler Pitch: Moving Beyond the Blog – Building Web Sites with WordPress as the CMS
WordCamp is coming to the wonderful winter wonderland of Whistler on January 24th, 2009 and I’d like to throw my name in the hat of presenters and share some of what I’ve learned working with everyone’s favourite blogging platform WordPress as a full fledged CMS. Now I’m not part of what is considered the Vancouver [...]
Dec 19
Using Conditional Custom Fields for Advanced Layouts
An often overlooked function in the WordPress arsenal is Custom Fields. Overlooked because to most it makes no sense: What do you use a custom field for? And how do you use it? The answers to these questions differ depending on how the WordPress theme has been set up: Custom fields can be used for [...]
