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HTML Coding: Tabular Data II
Design & Coding Last week I explained the various tags available for coding tables. This week I’m going to show you how to use them! I’m going to create a simple table to display the Blogging Tips weekly authors, their site address and how many posts they’ve written. So we’ll need a 3 column table for this. The opening code First of all we need to write out the opening code. Below is an example of this: [sourcecode language="html"] ...
Continue readingRemove the Category Base from your Permalinks
WordPress Coding & Design There’s one question that a lot of people have asked over time about using WordPress, but there’s not really a clear cut answer. How can you remove the Category Base from your WordPress permalinks? This may not be a major concern for a standard blog site, but it may be of use to some, and I think it’s definitely more use to those using WordPress as a CMS. My method so far works for a permalink structure of ...
Continue readingHTML Coding: Tabular Data I
Design & Coding If you want to display tabular data on a page then this is when you should use tables. You’ll get mixed reviews on tables. For those who learned how to code up websites before CSS gained popularity, they’ll have used tables to control their layout, and plenty of people still do (unfortunately!), and for those who have started to learn HTML in recent years, most don’t have a clue about tables except they’re ...
Continue readingUse WordPress Functions Externally
WordPress Coding & Design There may be a time when you’ve added WordPress on to an already existing site, to perhaps power the news section or to just provide a blog or multiple blogs for people. If the site is small then it’s usually easier to just convert the existing pages into static pages, and use the CMS functionality of WordPress to power the whole site. However, that may not always be the case, especially with large websites. Just because your site is ...
Continue readingHTML Basics: Text Formatting II
Design & Coding Following on from last week, below are some lesser used but still very useful text formatting tags. Delete and Insert If you decide to change some information on a page, but what to emphasise that you’ve made an update, perhaps to a blog post or a piece of news, then we use the del and ins tags to do this. The del tag is used to surround the text to be deleted. Using this tag will usually put a strikethrough the text. The del tag can also ...
Continue readingHidden Content for Registered Users
WordPress Coding & Design It can be quite useful to be able to add in links or information that you want either yourself, as an administrator, or your registered users to see, on the front end of your website. The default template comes with user login/logout link, usually under the Meta Information section, but most people prefer to remove this as they don’t want login links to the general public. However, once you’ve logged in, why not give yourself a ...
Continue readingHTML Basics: Text Formatting
Design & Coding Using the correct markup or technique for text formatting on a page is often overlooked and subsequently people either underuse or abuse certain tags. For example, there are 3 ways to apply bold formatting to a word – 2 different HTML tags do it by default and a CSS property. When do you use which one? It depends on the nature of the content. Using Spans The span tag identifies a group of inline elements to apply styles to. You can only ...
Continue readingImprove your Recent Posts
WordPress Coding & Design A lot of themes these days comes with the Recent Posts code added already. It’s a basic list, usually just set to display the last 5 or 10 posts. A nice list but are you making the most of it? Remove the current Post A recent posts list comes into its own when the user is on a single post page. It allows them to see the most recent posts you’ve written on the site. However, if the page they’re on happens to be on that list then ...
Continue readingHTML & CSS Basics: Page Structuring with divs
Design & Coding Once you’ve got your content in place the next job is to determine the structure of the page. To do this we use divisions which use the div tag, usually along with an id or classname. The Mark-up Divisions are a block level tag and whilst they can be used within lists and other divs, they shouldn’t be placed within certain other block level elements such as paragraphs or headers. For example [sourcecode language="html"] Hello, she ...
Continue readingUsing a Functions file
WordPress Coding & Design You may have used a theme in the past, or are currently using one, that has a functions.php file in it. The Theme Functions file was introduced around the time that widgets came on the WordPress scene, usually containing just the code to register the dynamic/widgetised sidebars, however they’re useful for so much more. If you don’t already have a functions file then just create a blank file in your theme directory called ...
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