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…
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 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…
Making custom post types and custom taxonomies in WordPress
By default WordPress comes with a few post types already defined. But the two most obvious ones being pages and posts. The biggest difference between these two post types is down to how they are displayed by WordPress. WordPress Pages. Pages are generally used for content that’s fairly static; contact forms, about us, are the…
Redirect non-admin users from wp-admin
This simple function will redirect any logged in users (apart from admins) back to the homepage if they try to access the wp-admin folder directly. Add the following code your theme’s functions.php file.