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Loi-B and prufrock1,

Are you guys familiar with theme coding? You can easily use custom fields for handling post thumbnails. Lotsa instruction to do that in Google.

I’ve been a good whole month trying to figure out how I can do something like Write Post’s Custom Fields box.

Searched day and night hoping to find a tiny single tutorial on how to implement an Ajax function in ‘Write Post’ page for my WordPress theme. I seriously need more stuff than the codex to offer.

Ajax books are aplenty. I’ve got a few but its using it in WordPress that I’m stuck with. I don’t even know where to start.

Can anyone help show me how I could write a simple Ajax function (not-plugin), even as simple as saving-loading a ‘Hello-World’ string? Please help, as I don’t know where else I could turn to for help anymore.

dorothy1508,

Keeping with the spirit of this thread, their refusal can be taken only as a compliment. It really doesn’t look like a blog anymore and if I’m a blog directory webmaster, I’d disqualify your site at first sight. No doubt about that.

Your site truly represents what this thread is all about *LOL*

tim2255,

As you did not specify exactly what sort of dropdown menu you want, I can only guess you want a dropdown menu of WP pages.

If that is the case, I hope my short tutorial on how to build a simple “WordPress Multi-Level Drop Down menu using jQuery” can give you some hints.

To shed the blog impression, I gave the usual sidebar content (categories, archives etc) presentation a makeover. Though my theme is still very much in development, I have a test site up for viewing. The look of the homepage pretty much resembles what I have in mind.

Demo site

Sean,

I’m wondering about the same thing too.

Here’s what I really want to do:

I’m building a theme where every post can be assigned two or three different lead-images of different sizes. Right now I’m using custom-fields to do this. Like you said, its tedious upload the images and add them to custom fields. A nightmare when you have to do this everytime you post.

To take things futher, I’d like my theme to allow the author of post to choose from images in media library and crop it just like what we’re doing now with header images. Here’s where I can relate to your question as I wanted the cropped image URL to be automatically assigned to its designated custom fields too. (Or I can choose to bypass the use of custom fields completely but that’s a diffent approach)

However, I’m really unfamiliar with WordPress programming. The lack of documentation and tutorials on WordPress api programming is my main gripe.

wp_list_categories() returns a string if I’m not mistaken.

On the other hand I’m certain that if you want categories returned as an array, you’d use:

get_categories();