Daily archives: Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Create Your Own Functionality Plugin
You have two choices when adding custom functionality to your WordPress site: your theme’s functions.php file, or a plugin. Ryan Imel reminds us that theme-specific functionality belongs in your functions.php file (like registering a sidebar) whereas site-specific functionality belongs in a plugin (like registering custom taxonomies), as well as teaches us how.
404 Link Removed
4+ Ways to Loop with WordPress
At the heart of the WordPress theme template is the venerable WordPress loop. When you’re looking at your index.php
file, for example, the loop is the part that typically begins with if(have_posts())
and contains all the tags and markup used to generate the page. The default loop works perfectly well for most single-loop themes, but for more advanced designs with stuff like multiple and custom loops, more looping power is needed. Fortunately, WordPress provides plenty of flexibility with four or five ways to loop: