A while ago I found a great article on how to create a “stupid simple accordion” with jQuery. I thought I could use it on a few sites I was creating, so I created a wordpress plugin for it. I have to give full credit to the original author as it’s all his idea and [...]
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creating a WordPress plugin, part 2
Welcome to the second half of the tutorial. In the first half we setup the functions.php file and create blank JS and CSS files. The only thing left to do is to fill those files, oh, and solve our fatal error that I discovered at the end of the last screencast. With that said, on [...]
cool code boxes plugin
This is a plugin I created that will create a neat little jQuery box around your code that expands if needed when moused over. Many sites show snippets of code and many times these lines of code are wider than the available content areas. This plugin offers an alternative to the traditional scroll bar at the bottom of the code box. The actual code was published by Chris Coyier at Digging Into Wordpress, and I created a plugin to integrate it into WordPress.
Creating a WordPress Plugin, a Step-by-Step Screencast
I have been reading my WordPress Plugin Development book and was lost from chapter 3 on. It seems many of these development books are chock full of knowledge but much of it is VERY specific or goes from 0-100 and leaves you in the dust. The book did get me interested in trying to create [...]
Creating a WordPress Slider – Part 3
cleaning it up We left you last time with a functional but ugly slider. This post is about making it look nice, at least what I think looks nice. You will have to style it to your sites taste with custom CSS. I added the following CSS to position the arrows to the side of [...]
Creating WordPress Coda Slider – Part 2
the java script Now is the time to work the magic. The first thing to do is to add the javascript files to our theme. You will need the following three files in a folder called “js” inside your root of your child theme folder. serialScroll scrollTo coda-slider (this should be a blank js file [...]
Creating a Coda-style Slider with jQuery and Hybrid on WordPress
It seems like a million years ago I saw a fantastic screen on jQuery for Designers that really made me think, “Wow, that’s amazing”. Now, I thought both the screencast and the technique was amazing. First, here’s this really cool technique that I can do if only I watch the screencast. Second, here’s this guy [...]
Magazine Theme or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Plugins, Part III
And the final installment: Magazine Theme part 3 from Rusti Gregory on Vimeo.
Magazine Theme or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Plugins, Part II
Magazine Theme part 2 from Rusti Gregory on Vimeo.
Magazine Theme or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Plugins
I was looking at some of the magazine themes and “web 2.0″ type designs on the web and I thought “I could do that with hybrid.” So I did, here is the result. Magazine Theme Demo part 1 from Rusti Gregory on Vimeo. r
