Archive for July, 2008



Bliss

Published on July 28, 2008

Coconut Bliss - non-dairy frozen dessert.

Bliss photo


How-To Show A Single Category On Your Front Page

Published on July 23, 2008

Sometimes life is just so very simple.

I was loooking over that link and came accross this tiny bit of code that will allow you to display a single category on your front page. So easy… so sweet =)

<?php
  if (is_home()) {
    query_posts(”cat=1″);
  }
?>


How-to password protect your Wordpress blog

Published on July 8, 2008

A client requested that their entire site be password protected. I thought I could easily use .htaccess but found out that life with Wordpress is a bit more difficult.

Fortunately, the Wordpress developmnt community is robust and found this pluging along with this nice update to make it work with Wordpress 2.5+.

Yeah!


How-To create templates for individual posts using Wordpress

Published on July 2, 2008

How-To create templates for individual posts using Wordpress

I simply adore stuff like this. While it took me 15 or 20 minutes to figure out what they were talking about, once I did it was both elegant and easy to replicate. Open Source Rocks!

The Problem

Wordpress allows you to easily create templates for “Pages” and entire categories. This is very handy and easy to implement.

Wordpress does not make it easy to create a template for a single post.

In my case, I needed the first post in a category to have a special link for the “previous-link” navigation. Additionally, the last post needed the same link for the “next-link” navigation. (Normally, the first post would
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