Category Archives: Tutorials

Presenting videos using WordPress

Posted Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 03:54 am GMT +8 | Tutorials |

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And without using a plugin. I thought of creating this post when I was on my way home from the recently concluded WordCamp Philippines. There was a woman who was in Karla Redor‘s talk who asked on how she can host the video in her own blog and use WordPress to file it for her. She can use a plugin that will let her upload the videos in her blog or do it the “harder” way. Something that I’m very fond of doing. Seriously, I’m the type of person who would only resort to using plugins if: I’m lazy at the time to think of another way without using a plugin My head is aching and I’m getting frustrated because it just won’t follow what I’m telling it. The reason is because I am not a developer and it’s really hard to be dependent on a plugin specially if that … Continue reading →

Appending the title of the post in “Read more” links for WordPress

Posted Monday, April 28th, 2008 03:52 am GMT +8 | Tutorials |

One of the guidelines in usability is that you should provide only one way that will lead them to a certain action. For example, if someone sees 2 option buttons, chances are that they might think that each option button does separate tasks when in fact their functions are the same. Also, we have to make sure that the links are descriptive enough and if not, then we should provide a title for the link so when a user hovers over it then they’ll know where the link will take them. On a similar note, accessibility advocates encourages people to use unique name for every link that we use on a page (kinda like what I was saying before only have a different reason), meaning countless “Read more of this entry” is not really the best practice because you’re using the same text over and over and these texts are … Continue reading →

When ‘is_home()’ doesn’t work

Posted Saturday, March 8th, 2008 03:56 am GMT +8 | Tutorials |

Note: This has been written a long time ago, some of the stuff here might not work anymore. I’d recommend using <?php is_frontpage(); > when using static frontpage instead. You can also visit the WordPress Codex for more information or contact me and I’ll try my best to help you. You hacked your WordPress homepage because you don’t intend to make a blog out of it and then all of a sudden the very useful conditional tag <?php if(is_home()) ?> no longer works. It happened to me twice and for that 2 occurrences, I couldn’t find a solution until a couple of days ago. I’m working on this project where I don’t need to show my posts anywhere aside from the category archive and single, not even in the homepage. What the client wants is that the home page should show all of the categories in the site, no matter … Continue reading →