Check If Post In Custom Taxonomy

Filed Under (Light Reading, Wordpress Tips) by Wpfeed on 29-12-2011

Custom taxonomies is a great tool, you can create by yourself more ways to categorized posts or custom posts and in that way use wordpress as much better and advanced CMS.

suprisingley there isn’t yet a function to use if you want to check if a post is attached to a custom taxonomy (unless you check it with a single term of that given taxonomy – like in this example – http://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-taxonomies-conditional-tags?replies=13#post-1110167)

let’s say you created a custom taxonomy called “video”, and you want to display different border to the featured image in the LOOP or any other icon near this post to show that it is a video.

you can use this function which returns the list of objects of a given taxonomy:

$video_terms = wp_get_object_terms($post->ID, ‘video’);
if(!empty($video_terms)){
if(!is_wp_error( $video_terms )){
//show your icon or any other sign of this taxonomy
}
}

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wpShow updated, now version 2

Filed Under (Customization And Themes, Light Reading, Weekly News) by Wpfeed on 19-07-2011

Two years have passed since we released our most succeful theme, wpShow - the multimedia and video theme for wordpress.

in its first version videos were created like posts but categorized under “Videos” category. Now we upgraded the theme to work with videos as Custom Post Type, one of the latest wordpress features, so posts are blog posts and videos can be created separately.

We added the options to create your own custom menu.

we fixed some css bugs and php problems.

we added theme options to the theme, you can upload your own logo.

wordpress 3.2.1 compatible.

php fixes – if no videos – no player will be shown

 

Popularity: 3% [?]

WordPress News June 2011

Filed Under (Light Reading, Weekly News) by Wpfeed on 22-06-2011

From time to time we gather some interesting headlines form the WordPress world for you.

WordPress 3.2 – soon to be released

Every WordPress new version is a reason to check things, upgrade, improve your website security and change the interface, in the new version to be released in the next few weeks there are some major changes. here is a list of the changes taken from the official WordPress website:

  • Performance improvements like you wouldn’t believe. What’s that mean? Things are faster!
  • Distraction-free Writing. The visual editor’s full-screen composing experience has gotten a major overhaul, and is now available from HTML mode, too. More than ever, WordPress allows you to focus on what matters most — your content.
  • Admin UI Refresh. The last major redesign of the WordPress admin was in 2008. This isn’t a major redesign, just a little facelift to keep us feeling young. WordPress turns 8 later this month, you know.
  • New Default Theme. Introducing Twenty Eleven, based on the popular Duster theme. Rotating header images, post format support, and more.
  • Browse Happy. WordPress is made to work with modern browsers. If you visit your Dashboard using an outdated web browser, we’ll let you know there’s a newer version available.
  • Admin Bar. We’ve added more links to the admin bar to make it even more useful.
Be Aware:
  • WordPress has new minimum system requirements: PHP 5.2.4 and MySQL 5.0.
  • Internet Explorer 6 will no longer be supported.
  • The favorites menu has been removed. If you’ve written any plugins that use this menu, it’s time to switch over to an admin bar placement.
Known Issues:
  • We haven’t updated the blue admin color scheme yet, so do your testing in the gray zone for best results.

- What is Distraction Free Writing? details here

- here are some screenshots of the new dashboard.

 

WPshower

A very unique and elegant themes websites that we really like is WPshower. Around ten themes, some of them free and the rest premium.

minimalism and modern styles. Compact, complete, trendy and free from unnecessary components. Only what you need, only themes th-at work.

 

Unspoken Theme Overview from Wpshower on Vimeo.

 

VideoZoom

A very popular theme which we like a lot is VideoZoom, a theme for your video website. with different options of layout, you can customize many things in this theme, such as color, menus and widgets.

take a look here

 

WordPress HTML5 Themes

a list of seomantic, css3 and html5 free themes for your websites.

http://wpbooks.net/list-of-wordpress-html5-themes/

 

Popularity: 2% [?]

WordPress 3.1 – So What Is New

Filed Under (Installation, Light Reading) by Wpfeed on 28-02-2011

After quite a long delay at last the new version of wordpress is here. 3.1.

Admin Bar – contains various links to useful admin screens. By default, the admin bar is displayed when a user is logged in and visiting the site and is not displayed in admin screens for single blog installs. For multisite installs, the admin bar is displayed both when visiting the site and in the admin screens.

Internal Linking – click a button for an internal link and it allows you to search for a post or browse a list of existing content and select it for inclusion.

Post Formats – meta information that can be used by themes to customize presentation of a post. Read more in the article Post Formats. It’s about time to say, why not just add a new feature of post template like with pages.

Network Admin – move Super Admin menus and related pages out of the regular admin and into a new Network Admin screen.

List-type Admin Screens – sortable columns for list-type screens and better pagination.

Exporter/Importer Overhaul – many under the hood changes including adding author information, better handling for taxonomies and terms, and proper support for navigation menus.

Custom Content Type Improvements – allows developers to generate archive pages, and have better menu and capability controls. Read more in the article Post Types.

Refreshed Blue Admin Color Scheme – puts the focus more squarely on your content.

 

Popularity: 4% [?]

Apology and our new website

Filed Under (Light Reading, Weekly News) by Wpfeed on 14-02-2011

Our website wpfeed.com was hacked yesterday, we fixed the problem and now we’re back again.

Our New Website
We published a new website, http://wpbooks.net, the website is intended to be the main reserve for WordPress Books, a very important and useful for wordpress developers and users.

We are about to review books and link to them for more reviews, hope we will cover all WordPress books.

enjoy

wpfeed.com

Popularity: 5% [?]

WordPress 3.0 is here

Filed Under (Installation, Light Reading) by Wpfeed on 17-06-2010

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As we wrote before, the much anticipated wordpress 3.0 version, is now officially out.

read all about it here: http://wordpress.org/development/2010/06/thelonious/

Popularity: 21% [?]

WordPress 3.0 surprises

Filed Under (Customization And Themes, Installation, Light Reading, Wordpress Mu) by Wpfeed on 28-03-2010

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This week I’ve downloaded and installed locally the much anticipated wordpress 3 version. the much talked about version where wordpress Mu will no longer exist and will merge into wordpress, it will be called WordPress Multi Site. apart from that feature there are numerous new and exciting features in wordpress 3.0, here are some of them:

New Registration Details, No More Admin and generated password

WordPress 3.0 is changing right from the very first stage, installation and registration, no more default admin user name and generated password, now the admin can set is own username and insert the desired password by himself.

w3_1_reg

New Default Theme – twentyten

finally the default wordpress theme is changing. there are lots of new features in the new default theme called “twentyten” (2010) like Drop Down Page Menus, 6 Widget Areas, Gallery Posts Styling, HTML 5 Validation, Header Image , Background changing support and much more.

w3_2_2010

Menu Manager

Now you can add menu manager to your theme and let your users create their own menu, not just by pages but also from categories, posts and custom links. excellent feature.

w3_3_menus

Custom Header Support

WordPress 3.0 supports changes in your header built in without any need of theme options. you can let your theme users upload new header images and use them, they can also choose the colors of the header and many more options.

w3_4_header

Custom Background Support

In the new version you will be able to add your own background and change the colors of it. as long as the theme support it.

w3_5_backgrounds

Network – the WordPress mu part of the story

When WordPress version 3.0 will be released (they talk about may 2010), wordpress mu will cease to exist and the two platform will merge into one will be called – WordPress Multi Site. there suppose to be a script to tranform your WPMu to reular wordpress. more details about this in the near future.

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Download wordpress 3.0 alpha !!! – http://wordpress.org/nightly-builds/wordpress-latest.zip

read about Custom Post Types – http://kovshenin.com/archives/custom-post-types-in-wordpress-3-0/1

more about the new default theme – http://2010dev.wordpress.com/ and here – http://blog.ashfame.com/2010/02/wordpress-3-new-default-theme-twentyten/

more about Background support – http://wpengineer.com/wordpress-3-0-custom-background-support/

Popularity: 36% [?]

WordPress And Google Buzz

Filed Under (Installation, Light Reading, Plugins, Weekly News) by Wpfeed on 12-02-2010

This week google released its newest and very exciting feature – Google Buzz. it took several days and the new plugin for google buzz is here:

How to Install Google Buzz Button

  • Download Google Buzz Button WordPress Plugin
  • Upload in wp-content/plugins folder on your server
  • Activate the plugin from Plugin Dashboard
  • Done! A new Google Buzz Button will start appearing after the post content on each single page. You can customize the location of Buzz Button.

Usage of Google Buzz Button Plugin

On Google Buzz Button plugin settings panel, you can change the location of button. For example, you can place the button after or before the content of the post or page.

1. If you have selected ‘Manual Insertion’ from the Google Buzz Button settings page, then insert the below code in the WordPress Loop wherever you want

if ( function_exists( ‘add_google_buzz_button’ ) ) {
add_google_buzz_button();}

2. If you have selected ‘Before Content’ as the location of the button, which is default, then the Google Buzz button will be automatically inserted on all the posts and pages after the title and before the content.

3. If you have selected ‘After Content’ as the location of the button, which is default, then the Google Buzz button will be automatically inserted on all the posts and pages after the content.

4. The anchor tag has the class attribute as ‘google_buzz’, you can customize it with any CSS styles thru your theme template style sheet.

We have already submitted this plugin on WordPress Directory for approval. Till then youcan download this plugin from our server and start using that. Please share your thoughts and feedback about this plugin.

here some more info about some new features and plugins for wordpress and google buzz:

5 Ways to Incorporate Google Buzz Into WordPress and BuddyPress

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-buzz-er/

WordPress Plugin for Google Buzz

Add Google Buzz Button To WordPress Blog

WP Google-buzz – plugin

http://www.tricksdaddy.com/2010/02/add-google-buzz-button-to-wordpress-blog.html

Popularity: 18% [?]

WordPress In 2010

Filed Under (Installation, Light Reading, Weekly News) by Wpfeed on 13-01-2010

In 2010 WordPress will get a new Default Theme, replacing the beloved/hated Kubrick Theme with a new Theme called 2010. I’ve got opinions on the matter. Oh, do I have opinions. I’ve even gone so far as to create a working idea for a new Default WordPress Theme. Read more on the themeshaper website.

As some of us already know, in WordPress 3.0 there will be many new features, and a merge with WordPress Mu. I only hope this guys will continue there excellent work – WPMU.org, here is their latest post about the greatest buddypress websites.

Popularity: 14% [?]

Weekly News 13.11.2009

Filed Under (Customization And Themes, Light Reading, Weekly News) by Wpfeed on 13-11-2009

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Some interesting news to all you WordPress lovers.

WordPress 2.9

wordpress 2.9 is just around the corner, here is a list of some of its exciting features,  10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.9

40 free themes

High quality free WordPress Themes have become harder and harder to find in the past year, with the influx of premium themes, more and more designers and developers are selling themes (and rightly so, they do amazing work). However, the quality of freely available themes has improved as well; in fact, some themes are very advanced and professional and can serve as a solid foundation for your next designs.

here’s the amazing list by Smashing Magazine

New E-Commerce themes for wordpress

The Furniture Store

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URL

wopshop

1_promo

URL

Blog Widget by LinkWithin

Popularity: 22% [?]

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