NoobSlide is one of the most versatile, efficient, and compelling Javascript galleries I have seen. Many thanks to its creators for making something so awesome!
NoobSlide is now part of the Shiba Gallery Plugin so that you may insert its galleries into your blog with a simple WordPress gallery shortcode.
Below are the 8 common NoobSlide examples (with very slight modifications) integrated into the WordPress gallery system. I have also added 3 more galleries using the NoobSlide system that is reminiscent of Galleria, SlideViewer and NativeX.
NoobSlide Sample 1
[gallery id="1969" type="noobslide_1"]
NoobSlide Sample 2
[gallery id="1969" type="noobslide_2"]
NoobSlide Sample 3
[gallery id="1969" type="noobslide_3"]
NoobSlide Sample 4
[gallery type="noobslide_4" numberposts="22" recent="1" size="thumbnail"]
Shiba Theme 2.9 - Happy 1 Year Anniversary!
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Horse WordPress Theme
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add_menu_page, add_submenu_page
The add_menu_page and add_submenu_page functions are used to add menu and submenu items to our WordPress dashboard. For example, to the right, 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 add_menu_page and add_submenu_page including - Add a new custom post type submenu. Add new menus and modify its default submenu name. Delete submenus from existing menus. 1. Add a Custom Post Type SubMenu Custom...
Modify Custom Taxonomy Columns
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Add Custom Taxonomy Tags to Your WordPress Permalinks
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Write a Plugin for WordPress Multi-Site
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Find Posts Dialog Box
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Modify Custom Post Type Icons
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Shiba Custom Widgets 1.1
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Add Term or Taxonomy Meta Data
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Car WordPress Theme Images
Carrara 8 was just released so I am testing it out by creating a new Car WordPress Theme. So far, I am very happy with the new Carrara. The rendering speed is much faster, and the interface speed also seems to have increased. Carrara 8 is only selling at $52.15 at the moment (for Platinum Club members, until 5/31/2010), and the upgrade I got only cost me about $30. I am considering getting Carrara 8 Pro - where Daz seems to be focusing most of their programming efforts - but that will cost me about $170 so I am holding off...
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NoobSlide Sample 5
[gallery id="1969" type="noobslide_5"]
NoobSlide Sample 6
[gallery id="1969" type="noobslide_6"]
NoobSlide Sample 7
[gallery id="1969" type="noobslide_7"]
NoobSlide Sample 8
[gallery type="noobslide_8" numberposts="22" recent="1" size="thumbnail"]
Shiba Theme 2.9 - Happy 1 Year Anniversary!
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 based theme. Thus the Shiba Theme was born ... Now it is one year later and I...
Horse WordPress Theme
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 maps that came with the package. They made the rendered horses have crazy eyes. In the short...
add_menu_page, add_submenu_page
The add_menu_page and add_submenu_page functions are used to add menu and submenu items to our WordPress dashboard. For example, to the right, 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 add_menu_page and add_submenu_page...
Modify Custom Taxonomy Columns
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...
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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 Type...
Write a Plugin for WordPress Multi-Site
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. ...
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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 Custom Background plugin simplifies the task...
Find Posts Dialog Box
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 objects. Custom post types also get automatically added. Our...
Shiba Gravatar Plugin 1.3
The Shiba Gravatar Plugin allows you to cache gravatar images locally on your server as well as use your own set of gravatar images. In this release, we significantly streamlined the process for loading your own custom gravatars. This was based on Lanes excellent feature suggestion of tying the custom gravatar system to WordPress galleries. In...
Custom Post Type Permalinks - Part 2
In Custom Post Type Permalinks - Part 1 we considered how to set different permalink options from the register_post_type function call. Here, we focus on how to create our own permalink structures. With the register_post_type function, we can easily set our custom post type permalink structure to look like this (assuming custom post type = gallery)....
Custom Post Type Permalinks
Custom post types is a very powerful feature in WordPress 3.0. With custom post types you can easily create post-like objects and automatically have menus, metaboxes, icons, permalinks, and much more added without having to code any of it yourself. Here we consider custom post type permalinks - how to set it, what the different options mean, and...
Dark Shadows WordPress Theme
This theme is centered around my second bishonen character design. Bishonen is a Japanese term which translates to pretty boy. I am a big fan of anime (Japanese animation), particularly those that feature bishonen characters. I created this character on Carrara 8, using a combination of vertex manipulation and character head morphs for...
Shiba Media Library 2.9
The Media Library Plugin is now updated for 3.0. It was tested on WordPress 3.0 and 2.9+. If you are using WordPress 3.0, the plugin will now use the new custom post type feature to create and manage gallery objects. In particular, you will get a new Gallery menu to view and modify gallery objects. All your previous gallery objects should still...
Add a Metabox to Your Custom Post Type Screen
Custom post types is a new and powerful feature in WordPress 3.0. Here, we consider how to add metaboxes to the new custom post type user interface. There are three general classes of metaboxes that we may add to our custom post type screen - Built-in metaboxes - These metaboxes are built-in to custom post types, and can be easily added by calling...
Modify Custom Post Type Icons
After we create a custom post type, we get a new menu item on our dashboard with the default post icon. We also get that same default icon when we go into the Edit and Add New screens of our new custom post type. Here, we consider how to set our custom post type icons to our own image, or to another existing WordPress icon. 1. Register Post...
Add Custom Post Type Columns
One of the exciting new features in WordPress 3.0 is custom post types. We can create our own post types by using the register_post_type function. If we enable UIs for our custom post type, we will get additional menu items on our WordPress dashboard similar to the Edit and Add New options for standard posts. Here, we consider how to add new columns...
Shiba Custom Widgets 1.1
The Shiba Widgets plugin allows you to assign different widgets to different posts, pages, categories, or tags. New features for Shiba Custom Widgets 1.1 - Updated for WordPress 3.0. Plugin will now work on 2.9 and 3.0. Copy widget sets. Assign widget sets for front-page, search, file not found (404), all posts, all pages, etc. Retrieve and...
Add Term or Taxonomy Meta Data
Since WordPress 2.9, support has been added for term or taxonomy meta-data. The relevant functions are in wp-includes/meta.php and the include - add_metadata($meta_type, $object_id, $meta_key, $meta_value, $unique = false) update_metadata($meta_type, $object_id, $meta_key, $meta_value, $prev_value = ) delete_metadata($meta_type, $object_id, $meta_key,...
Music WordPress Theme
This is my second theme using Carrara 8. It is a more understated Music Wordpress theme, featuring a club singer, over a backdrop of sheet music. The faster rendering speed of Carrara 8 definitely makes it easier to generate and test out various image options. However, Carrara 8 still does not support dynamic clothing. If you are...
WordPress Plugin Credits
The issue of how to credit plugin developers can often be an emotionally charged topic, with strong opinions on both sides. Everybody agrees that plugin developers are awesome for the WordPress community, but many disagreements arise as to what are the proper methods for getting credit for their hard work. On the one hand, many plugin developers...
WordPress Widget System - How it Works
The Widget System is one of the most powerful aspects of a WordPress blog. It allows us to easily customize various regions of our blog without having to do any PHP programming. Here we examine how the WordPress Widgets System works. For an example of the different widget filters and functions in action, check out the Shiba Custom Widgets Plugin....
Car WordPress Theme Images
Carrara 8 was just released so I am testing it out by creating a new Car WordPress Theme. So far, I am very happy with the new Carrara. The rendering speed is much faster, and the interface speed also seems to have increased. Carrara 8 is only selling at $52.15 at the moment (for Platinum Club members, until 5/31/2010), and the upgrade...
NoobSlide Sample Galleria
[gallery id="1969" type="noobslide_galleria"]
NoobSlide Sample SlideViewer
[gallery id="1969" type="noobslide_slideviewer"]
NoobSlide Sample NativeX
[gallery type="noobslide_nativex" numberposts="6" recent="1" size="thumbnail"]
Shiba Theme 2.9 - Happy 1 Year Anniversary!
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 based theme. Thus the Shiba Theme was born ... Now it is one year later and I...
Horse WordPress Theme
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 maps that came with the package. They made the rendered horses have crazy eyes. In the short...
add_menu_page, add_submenu_page
The add_menu_page and add_submenu_page functions are used to add menu and submenu items to our WordPress dashboard. For example, to the right, 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 add_menu_page and add_submenu_page...
Modify Custom Taxonomy Columns
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...
Add Custom Taxonomy Tags to Your WordPress Permalinks
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 Type...
Write a Plugin for WordPress Multi-Site
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. ...
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