Category Archives: WordPress

prependChild on DOMElement in PHP, Sort of.

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Jonathan Sampson

This evening I wanted to add a new LI onto a WordPress navigation programmatically. After considering a few different options, I decided I wanted to use PHP’s DOMDocument, and use this as an opportunity to more familiarize myself with its … Continue reading →

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Unexpected Results While Styling WordPress Menus

Posted on May 29, 2011 by Jonathan Sampson

Today I sat down to convert a static theme consisting of nothing more than HTML and CSS into a WordPress theme, complete with calls to functions like wp_nav_menu() for the construction of the menu’s. For this particular theme I began … Continue reading →

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Finding and Linking to Adjacent Posts with Same Custom Key/Value Pair in WordPress

Posted on January 9, 2011 by Jonathan Sampson

Today I continued working on merging multiple custom post types back into regular posts, and differentiated them with a custom key/value pair. Some of these old post types would link to their adjacent siblings – videos to previous and next … Continue reading →

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Quickly Adding Thumbnails to WordPress Archives

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Jonathan Sampson

Post thumbnails make archives look much more attractive in my personal opinion, yet they are not natively displayed in the otherwise-beautiful theme shipped with the latest version of WordPress, Twenty Ten. As is the case with most WordPress stuff, this … Continue reading →

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