Update 12/30/12: This method is outdated and I have revised it. Even I sometimes panic at the thought of acronyms but once you get past the technobabble, they’re just fancy names for simple concepts. “Keyhole Mashup Language” is the open source standard of mapping coordinates…
I just spent a good Friday resolving something that should be very simple. Of course it’s snowing like crazy so I’m not minding. On the Wake Magazine site I’ve been working on, we have a Blogs category that contains multiple sub categories. It’s a very…
This super simple piece of PHP code will randomly pull images from a folder that are numbered (ie: 1 through 9). Technically it’s just any folder with numbered image names. For TCS I created a folder called gallery in my theme folder and placed images…
The exclude variable in the stand-alone wp_list_categories doesn’t exist for get_the_category when your blog is listing the categories related to that post. So you have to create a custom function to define the categories which output. I found the solution at Technokinetics and adapted it…
If you are using wp_list_categories sometimes you want to manually add HTML/links before and after the categories that are generated in order to preserve the ul list. Similarly, you’d want to bundle the ul tags within an if else statement. Most PHP gurus know this…