What follows is how to add and use a custom taxonomy with the WP Job Manager plugin for WordPress. The documentation for the plugin provides some good hints and code examples for adding additional fields – but for a recent project I needed to use a custom taxonomy, so roll your sleeves up and let…
Starter, Parent, Child and Grandchild Themes
Towards the end of 2015 I shifted my working method and started using the Parent and Child functionality of WordPress themes to power all my new clients websites. Previously to this I used a Starter Theme that got customised to each individual clients needs. What is a Starter Theme? A starter theme is basically a bit of…
WordPress and Word Processors
Where Where do inline styles come from? When redesigning websites one of the problems I have to deal with is how to handle importing old content that has inline styles embedded. A lot of the culprits are webpages that were originally written using a word processing program such as Microsoft Word. These programs make it…
Equal sized navigation menu with jQuery in WordPress
A couple of recent WordPress websites we built called for having the menu items equally spaced out across the whole width of the containing div. Working in percentages it’s pretty easy to work of course. Our containing div is 100%, so just a count of our menu items, in this case 5, 100/5 = 20,…
Easy Pull Quotes using CSS & JQuery
Everyone now understands the importance of having engaging, relevant content on their websites, and with more content the need to give more attention to typography becomes apparent. Pull-quotes are heavily used in traditional publishing but their use on the web is still pretty rare. Pull-quotes are key phrases, quotes or excerpts that are “pulled” from…
Dynamic Excerpt Lengths in WordPress
Excerpts are used in loads of places in WordPress themes, and adjusting the lengths of them is very easy using the functions already built into WordPress. However there’s one styling aspect that troubles me when using excerpts across multiple columns. The Problem. When the post titles used in your excerpts are all a common length…
How does Responsive Website Design work?
Responsive design aims to provide users with an optimal reading, navigation and experience regardless of the device being used to view it. This is accomplished using a mixture of fluid layouts and media queries. Fluid Layouts. Fluid layouts are designed using relative measurement units such as percentages or ems, rather than fixed units like pixels…
How to Create a Private Client Area in WordPress
It has been a couple of years since we originally wrote our plugin recipe for a secure client area in WordPress, which proved pretty popular, but we’d now recommend a different method to achieve a client area in your WordPress powered website. A recent WordPress project called for a secure area for each of the…
Improving WordPress search results pages
If you have a growing website then no matter how careful you are with organising your websites’ content there comes a time when adding search functionality becomes necessary. We were recently asked to add a search box to a clients WordPress powered website and set about making some improvements to enhance the users experience. Everyone…