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Google Maps API
In a recent project it was asked to provide a Google map on a number of pages. It would have been too time consuming to create a custom map and manually place the code on each page. Instead using the Google Maps API was a better choice because the address could be pulled from a custom field in the post and used to create the map. With the code below adding a Google Map is simple.
The first step is signing up for a API key, as with most Google products is free and only requires a Google account. After you’ve received your key, you can then edit the functions.php file of your current theme. The below code has some key spots to take note of and maybe change some values. I will highlight these after the full code.
WordPress 2.7 Comment Threading
Thanks to Otto for this great post on the heads up on the new comment system for WordPress 2.7. After I read this I decided to get ahead of the curve and switch my Techozoic theme over to the new threaded commenting. I decided to take it a little further and separate pings and trackbacks from regular comments. At first this wasn’t working but after a quick email to the wp-testers list Ryan whipped up a fix for it. Anyway I figured I would explain how I did this. I continue below.
WordPress Theme Options Framework
Update: New Version
I’ve released a newly optimized version of the Theme Options Framework that now only makes two calls to the database rather than one call per option.
Recently I’ve been doing alot of work on my themes. I started off with the idea to make my theme work user friendly by adding a options page. So I started looking for how to do this, and came across this page and some useful code. So I took this and started modifying and trying different things and now I think I’ve got a very useful framework and I wanted to share with others. I’ll continue below as this will be fairly long post.
