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Making Theme Widget Areas More Dynamic
While designing a new theme for a client a problem came up that has come up before. Making a horizontal area a widgetized area, ie the header area next to a logo. This could also be in the footer of a theme. Instead of hardcoded the widths of each widget and making the layout static, I decided to make it have dynamic widths. By dynamic I’m not just talking about using percentage widths, but making the widths dependent on how many widgets are added to the area. Lucky WordPress has a handy function that will give counts of all the widgets currently active and in which area they are active. The documentation on the function is quite sparse wp_get_sidebars_widgets Read the rest of this entry »
CSS Tip: Image Rollover effect
After working on wordpress themes for a while I’ve come across a few stylesheet techniques and figured I’d share so I’ve started a new category of posts. I’ll continue below.
