I was working on a project where I had to find out all the registered filters that I was about to apply, so here’s a WordPress quickie for you! I found this out by inspecting the apply_filters function inside the plugin.php core file, and apparently there’s a $wp_filter global that contains them all in an associative array where keys are tags. So by doing a print_r at a certain time...
Themes Weekly: The Agency for WordPress
The Agency by @simonbouchard has been released today, offering two columns, two color schemes, over 40 shortcodes, typography customization (Cufon, Google Fonts and custom), custom widgets and more! The theme has got a minimal layout, making it perfect for agencies to publish projects, updates and news stories, making the content more relevant. The Nivo slider makes it even more appealing! The...
Themes Weekly: Business & Portfolio for WordPress
I’m doing a beta launch of a new posts series on my blog called Themes Weekly where I’ll be featuring and reviewing different hand-picked themes from different places, hopefully. Both free and premium themes, mostly WordPress of course. So in today’s edition of Themes Weekly we’re going to look at some new Business and Portfolio themes for WordPress. Amphion Lite for...
A Note on WP_Http and HTTP Requests in WordPress
We all know and love the How To Make HTTP Requests with WordPress article by @Ozh written back in 2009, and I had quite an interesting discussion in the WordPress IRC channel today, mainly about WP_Http and how the 302 and 301 redirects are handled through different transports. The initial question was about grabbing the final URL to which request was redirected to, turns out there is no good way...
Another Approach at Comment Spam
Yet another WordPress experiment, this time, it’s all about fighting spam! We all know and love Akismet but most of you will agree with me that some of those spammish comments still pass through. So how do we get rid of them? We can’t block all comments with links, they might be useful. We can’t block all comments containing spammish words, those spammish words might be the...
A Thought on WordPress Page Templates
I was looking into more premium themes for WordPress the other day, and I see that most of them simply love to give users different page templates. Not all of them are doing it the correct way, but it still is a value add to a WordPress theme. If you recall from the Codex pages, Page Templates in WordPress are defined with a special comment header in the template files. They can then be chosen at...
WordPress Experiments: Visual Styles Editor
In a previous blog post I demonstrated a video of the color wheel concept. Today I’d like to show you another WordPress themes experiment — visual styles editor. As shown in the video, the styles editor pops out as a dialog box which you can move around the page. The dialog itself contains a select box where you get to pick a certain style (like headings, menu anchors, etc) and the...
WordPress Experiments: Colors & The Color Wheel
I’ve been working on a free theme called Minimal Georgia lately and based on it, I’m now running a few experiments for theme customization, of course inspired by Squarespace. One of my first experiments is the color wheel and there are plenty of jQuery plugins and code snippets that could do that. With a few more research about colors and their hex codes, I found a way to determine a...
Minimal Georgia Gets an Update: Post Formats & More
Minimal Georgia for WordPress was introduced a couple of weeks ago, and today there’s over 2000 downloads! I know this doesn’t mean that all 2000 are using the theme, but they at least had a look, which is okay for my first ever WordPress theme ;) The new (1.4.1) version has got some major updates and improvements. The most exciting are definitely post formats (audio, video, gallery...
Introducing Minimal Georgia for WordPress
Hurray! My first ever public theme has been approved and aired at the WordPress Themes Directory! So I’ll start off with a little background, making-of, submitting the theme and of course the reviewing process. From start to finish — getting your theme to the WordPress directory ;) But first, a few screenshots of Minimal Georgia! Isn’t it lovely? There’s a red, blue...