One year ago in July, I started working on the Shiba Theme. It was then that I decided to focus some of my energy into blogging and I wanted a theme that was flexible and easy to customize. I am also a big fan of fantasy art and anime, so I wanted a highly visual…..
This is my first horse based theme. There is a big sale going on at DAZ so I was able to get a bunch of new models including the horse bundle. It is an older model, but I am very happy with the results. The only issue I had was with the horse eye texture…..
The add_menu_page and add_submenu_page functions are used to add menu and submenu items to our WordPress dashboard. For example, in the screen-shot below, we have added a new Shiba Themes menu. It contains the submenus Shiba Themes, Add New, and Theme Options. Here we consider some common tasks that we may want to perform using…..
WordPress custom taxonomies are useful for grouping wordpress posts and custom post types. For example, tags and categories are standard taxonomies provided by WordPress to group WordPress objects. By creating our own custom taxonomies, we can creating our own groupings of posts and custom post types. WordPress also provides a standard user interface for managing…..
The WordPress custom taxonomy system allows you to create your own grouping of WordPress objects (e.g. posts, pages, and custom post types). Tags and categories, for example, are taxonomy objects that are native to the WordPress system. With the custom taxonomy framework, you can create your own tags and categories. In the article Custom Post…..
WordPress multisite functionality is now integrated into WordPress 3.0. Currently, we must go through a non-trivial process to turn on multisite capability. However, there are already plugins that try to automate this process in one-click. As this process becomes easier and more streamlined, the multisite capability will likely see wider adoption. Here, we consider how…..
There are many new features in WordPress 3.0, and one of them is the new spiffy Twenty Ten default WordPress Theme. Twenty Ten is a great theme that you can have a lot of fun with. Here we build a variety of different looks for Twenty Ten using the Shiba Custom Background plugin. The Shiba…..
The Find Posts dialog box can be a very useful feature to add to your plugin. For example, when we attach images to posts (from the Media >> Library menu) we use the Find Posts dialog box to search for our target objects. In the dialog box above, we can search for post and page…..
