After finishing up with the new design for [wp], here are ten tips I’ve got to improve your [themes].
1. Make your sidebar tabbed
One of my favourite features of the new [wp]design is the tabbed sidebar. How did I do it? First, I took a look at a couple of scripts, deciding on DomTabs. Next, I took a look at a tutorial on ProBlogDesign explaining one way to integrate DomTabs to get an idea of how other people are using DomTabs. After that, I integrated the code from the PBD tut and got styling! At this point in the design process, I’d styled some tabs on the PSD, but I wanted something that’d fit in with the navigation. The solution: a three button tabbed sidebar area, using border-radius. The code is below, should you wish to use it on your site.
[css]/*Tabbed Sidebar bit*/
Is it possible to write a define statement in wp-config that only applies to one website in a multisite environment?
Basically like conditional instructions per website…
e.g. All of website allows for define ( revisions 3 ); but I wan’t one of the website’s in the multisite environment to have define ( revisions 10 ); that is setup for training.
Any help would be appreciated.
There are other define statements that we’d like to include but if it isn’t possible there’s no use asking further 🙂
Thanks!!!
re: Disable the Theme and Plugin Editors
I believe this is also possible via a filter(s). It might be worth mentioning that as fyi-ish alternative.
thanks for pointing this out Mark!
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Great article thanks for sharing, other help me a lot, but I think first we should consider is the social sites 😉
Thank you for good theme.
This will improve my wordpress blog a lot. Thx for all those usefull tips and tricks.
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great imput. Thanks I love changing themes and this will help for sure.
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What single tool do you use to stick your design to CMS?
There were a heck of a lot more comments, but something happened to the database and they’ve sort of… gone. I did pop a couple back in, but I gave up after seven or so. So. If you’re looking here for a reply to your comment, I did reply to it. And then it disappeared. Sorry.
Wonderful post, really helpful to improve wordpress blog.
I was on the look out for tabbed sidebar and found it here, excellent!
Also fall in love with widgetized footer and some others. Great compilation and thanks a lot.
Great post, I love the tabbed sidebar. Subscribed to your site. I’ve got a question, though: in #5, why don’t you just advise people to use one of the existing social media plugins? I’m using “Sociable” and it seems to work fine…???
Just whatI wanted … a way to create these features without the use of plugins. Many thanks for spotting the target!
I’m all over the Twitter and Social Media icons… (Number 10 & 5 )
Great post with lot’s of great links to other resources.
Thanks
Matt Kettlewell
Now this is really a nice and useful post. I have already bookmarked for future references. These tips are very helpful in improving wordpress blog. The idea of widgetized footer is great. And thanks for mentioning the “plugins installed”; they are really irritating at times.
Interesting points. But I guess it is too techie for me. I’m more into content stuff.
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Some good tips. Thank you for sharing!
Nice tips to jazz up the wordpress themes, they are very useful to even hack the existing themes.
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