72 Class is a minimalist wordpress theme. 72 Class is widget ready, and compatible with Wordpress 2.3 tags. 72 Class is rich in white space and free of clutter. 72 Class is now available for download for Wordpress.

By default, the image upload tool build into Wordpress creates thumbnail images. So when the user clicks “send to editor” the image rendered will be a thumbnail of the original image uploaded. Wordpress renders this by placing “.thumbnail” The file “/wp-admin/inline-uploading.php” is used to render image thumbnails. Lines 81-85 dictate a maximum width of 128 pixels or a maximum height of 96 pixels. Perhaps in future versions of Wordpress the width and height pixel values will be an option in the Wordpress administration. after the image name and between the image extension:

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By default all Wordpress posts viewed as a single post are controlled by the particular theme's "single.php" file.

Wordpress, by default is setup to use one template file ("single.php") for every post.(But what if you wanted to display a different layout or different code dependent on the specific categories a post or filed into?

To do this with Wordpress; one needs to use a bit of PHP in the "single.php" file and create category specific files.

On a recent job, the client consistently demanded a splash page for their website. Despite my consistent groans and insistence that the implementation of a splash page on their website would instantly turn it, them and me to the dark side, I gave in.

I reluctantly implemented a quick solution using Wordpress. I used php to check if the user was referred to the index page from within the site or from out with the site.

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‘Wordpress’ is renowned for allowing a generous selection of various feeds, whether it be ‘RSS’ or ‘ATOM’ or others, but it only comes with one basic feed option has default. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to have a separate feed for separate categories?

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This hack makes Wordpress display a category image next to posts.

Every category needs to have an *.png image named in accordance to the "nice name" of the category (if the category is called "Web Development", the nice name would be "web-development" so the category image should be "web-development.png" and placed in the /wp-images folder in the root of a Wordpress blog).

A "my-hacks.php" file must exist on the server of a Wordpress installation. If one does not exist create one. Also, ensure that the "Use legacy my-hacks.php file support" checkbox is checked in Options > Miscellaneous in the admin area of wordpress.

Pre-Written Text On The Wordpress ‘Write’ Page

I wanted to have some text at the bottom of every page and thus have it prewritten in the ‘Write‘ section of my admin section of my Wordpress blod. I did not want to have to go through the rigmoral of entering the same text everytime that I wanted to write a new post. I asked myself:

How could I do this?

Step 1: Editing the ‘wp-admin/edit-form-advanced.php‘ file.

The file that needs to be edited is ‘edit-form-advanced.php‘ in the ‘wp-admin‘ folder. The line in question is 100. I looked for the following portion of code on line 100 of the ‘edit-form-advanced.php‘ file:

<div>
<textarea rows="<?php echo $rows; ?>" cols="40" name="content" tabindex="5" id="content">
<? php echo $content ?>
I AM AMAZING!
</textarea>
</div>

For the sake of this example, the text, I want to have pre-written in the ‘Post’ field in the ‘Write’ page is “I AM AMAZING!“. In order to achieve my objective I simply alter the above code to the following:

<div>
<textarea rows="<?php echo $rows; ?>" cols="40" name="content" tabindex="5" id="content">

<? php echo $content ?>
I AM AMAZING!
</textarea>
</div>

Step 2: Save and upload.

I then saved my changes and uploaded the changed ‘edit-form-advanced.php‘ file to my webserver in the ‘wp-admin‘ folder, and perfection is mine!

I wanted to just show my ‘website news’ category in the root of my Wordpress installation. But by default index.php shows the latest posts from all categories, this was not what I wanted. So how could I get what I want?

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