chaseman

If it’s not possible to get the visitor count, perhaps I could:

– count the number of articles
– measure the time between the first article and the last article (a bigger time frame means an older blog which CAN hint towards a more popular blog, especially if it’s combined with a high number of articles)
– take the sum of all comments (high sum = popular)

And that all together would be my popularity formula?

Though, I have to wonder: why do you need such arbitrary classes? Are not the core-defined classes sufficient for each semantic case?

This is my first theme and I started with an empty template which I got from a video workshop, which did not include the proper post_class() functions in the tags, so I assigned my own.

When I started I did not know about a CSS grid system as well, thus the over-use of clearfix.

On my second project I’m going to create my own framework with the proper functions and a CSS grid system.

This will work:

<?php post_class('title_post group'); ?>

Thanks

wow you’re fast, I just edited my post. I’ve added post_class(), but as said I’ve already assigned a class for my own styles to that element, and the following will not work obviously:

class=”my-style” class=”sticky-style”

Any ideas how to combine them?

To:

class=”my-style sticky”

I’ve just tried the sticky function, and it works as expected here, the only issue I have is the .sticky class does not get inserted in the source code at all, which means that when I style it in the css file the sticky post does get affected. Any ideas why?

EDIT:

Ok I figured out I need to add post_class(), problem is that I already have assigned two classes to that ul element, any ideas how I can combine them?

Thanks for the great resource, yes I’m currently in the testing phase, so far I’ve used the plugin WP Theme Check to get rid of most of the notices and errors.

Makes sense, thanks for the response, it’s weird since ever I’ve been coding a WordPress theme (2 month now), I’ve never come across a sticky post or a native WordPress gallery, the only gallery I know is the one when I upload images in the admin panel – is that the one you mean, or is there a different one as well?

Anyone?

It would not take long, all I need is the theme you have, I will apply it to my local WordPress installation install the navigation and send it back. I would do a smooth jQuery navigation which degrades gracefully back to a CSS navigation if the user has no JavaScript enabled. You’ll get everything back on the same day. I would ask $35 as time compensation for that.

You can contact me through this email: rochoven at gmail dot com

I will gladly conjure you something =D

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Wow thank you a lot that worked, you’re a crack! =D

It works when I use an absolute path, but I’m wondering is that the only why to solve this problem?

You’d have to get it implemented into your theme, since your theme does not seem to provide it natively. It’s possible either through pure CSS, or also though jQuery which would make it look very smooth and dynamic.

I have some time on my hands the next few days, I can implement that for you for a tip. =D

Let me know if you have interest.

esmi, that’s the question, is it a must or is it rather a “I’d appreciate if you put a link in the footer”.

Though, I’m thankful that I don’t have to re-invent the wheel, so I’ll end up putting a link in the footer and I’ll probably put links to the other plugins I’m going to use as well, just to be fair.

I also hope that this encourages other theme developers to do the same. Hard coding shortcodes into the theme itself only harms the community, this has to change.

Since you’re using double quotes you can simply do it like this:

<?php $posts = get_posts( "category_name=$value" ); ?>

With single quotes it would be like this:

<?php $posts = get_posts( 'category_name="' . $value . '"' ); ?>

P.S.: You can not use PHP tags inside PHP tags.

WordPress itself and the Codex can be like a jungle, it takes time until you’re able to guide yourself through and know all the corners.

Yesterday I spent 3 hours trying to make a CSS file in the admin panel work, I went through all possible methods which are documented in the Codex, plus tutorials I found online, until I realized that I did a stupid mistake.

I think you can find most of the things in the Codex, you just have to get a feel for what you’re looking for. Think about what you need and then try to guess how that WordPress specific function may be called and then look for it, I use CTRL+F a lot or the Wordpess’ search.

Though it’s a lot of fun to work with WordPress, and I want to become a WordPress hacker! =D

To answer you question, you could embed the code into your theme code and then provide the user an input field in the admin panel.

Once the user has entered the gallery id you can then do a conditional check, if it’s true, the embedded code will be printed.

if (isset($gallery_id)):
// gallery code here
endif;

You can retrieve the gallery_id like this:

$gallery_id = get_option ('gallery_id');

Which fetches it out of the database field.

Hope that helped!