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Wordpress Theme Options Framework Ver 2
As I’ve worked more on my theme and increased my coding skills I’ve added to my original theme option framework. I’ve become more aware of best practices of coding and WordPress, a big issue with the original framework was the way options were added to the wp_options database table. Each theme option got it’s own entry in the table, this might be okay for small theme, but I’ve grown to over 40 different options in my Techozoic theme. It was time to optimize, with the new framework the entries added to the wp_options table went from 40 to 2. I’ll continue below with code examples and explanations. As an added bonus I’ve included an example of how to pull your theme options into a external stylesheet, based off of this concept.
WordPress 2.7 Released
Version 2.7 of WordPress has been released. I’ve been using the beta’s for quite some time, and I must say that I really like this version. There has been alot of dicussion about the new interface but I think it works great.
WordPress 2.7 Comment Callback Function
With WordPress 2.7 coming closer and closer, I’ve been doing more work on some of the new features and implementing them in my themes. I’ve got the comments and pings separated, now I wanted a little more control of how the new comment loop displayed my comments. Namely the avatar being to small and arranging the comment meta data differently. So after a couple of days I’ve got it working using the comment callback feature. Basically you define how the comment loop pieces fit together. I’ll continue below to post the actual code.
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Font Burner Plugin
Font Burner is a service that allows a blog owner to use a custom font for their post headers. It uses some flash and javascript magic to turn the text into whatever font the author chooses. They have also just released a WordPress plugin that makes the task even easier. Visit Font Burner and try out their service.
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.
