News http://news.yorgonestoridis.com Online Publishing Thu, 17 May 2012 09:14:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 How to build a Custom WordPress Site 3 http://news.yorgonestoridis.com/online-business/how-to-build-a-custom-wordpress-site-3-2/ http://news.yorgonestoridis.com/online-business/how-to-build-a-custom-wordpress-site-3-2/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 09:14:26 +0000 Yorgo Nestoridis http://yorgonestoridis.com/?p=23007
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    Customizing WordPress Child Theme

    Contents

    1. Customizing WordPress Child Theme

      1. Some basic WP Settings
      2. Custom Posts and Child Theme
      3. Child Theme functions.php
      4. Define Post Types in posttypes.php

        1. 1. Custom Post Types
        2. 2. Add advanced Variables
      5. 3. Add advanced functionality

        1. 4. Change the menu position
        2. 5. Add Custom Post Type Icons
      6. Resulting posttypes.php code:
     

    In this tutorial we will create Custom Post Types and add variables and functionality to them. Also we will add some styling for more user-friendly display in the dashboard.

    Having set up our basic Child Theme structure we will now proceed with the customization. But before that we will do some basic WP configuration and go through the settings. You may be used to building WordPress based sites and therefore you may have some habits in as much as settings and configuration are concerned.

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    Some basic WP Settings

    Here is what I do in the dashboard:

    1. Trash and permanently delete the Hello World Post.

    2. Delete the default Links.

    3. Set Permalinks to: /%category%/%postname%/

    4. Under Settings General enter Blog Name and Tagline; for the purpose of this exercise I use  as a Title: WordPress TTP and as a Tagline: Tips, Themes and Plugins

    5. Add some content to test content display by importing an RSS feed using a plugin such as Feedwordpress. I pulled into a new category called Blog the feed from my author-blog at:

    http://yorgonestoridis.com/feed


    Custom Posts and Child Theme

    We have set up a basic child theme for the purpose of modifying and customizing the Parent Theme. Creating structural modifications such as creating Custom Posts and Taxonomies are not strictly speaking theme relevant but should apply to all themes or as the case may be, to multiple themes in a Multi-user installation.

    For this reason we will lodge the file which defines the custom posts outside any specific theme folder but inside wp-contents/themes.

    We create a file called posttypes.php in wp-contents/themes. This file serves to define our custom post types and the way they integrate into the WP architecture.

    In order to include the new Post Types in our Child theme, we include the posttype.php using an include function. This we doby adding a new file to our child theme; this file we call functions.php.


    Child Theme functions.php

    As you know, every WP theme contains a functions.php file; when creating a child theme which needs to expand the functions existing in the parent theme, then we just add a file with the same name, ‘functions.php’ to the child theme and append the functions defined in the parent theme.

    Note: functions.php of the child theme does not override existing functions in the parent theme as is the case with styles (‘style.css)!

    PHP allows us easily to include files in a script with the ‘include’ function and then by adding the URL to the file you wish to include.

    Our ‘functions.php’ file will look as follows:

    
<?php
include_once (ABSPATH . 'wp-content/themes/posttypes.php');
?>

    Please note that we use the ABSPATH function to construct the URL as the normal url path

     url(".../themes/posttypes.php")

    does not work here.

    Save functions.php into your Child Theme Folder.


    Define Post Types in posttypes.php

    In order to set up our post types we proceed step by step:

    1. Set up Custom Post Types
    2. Add advanced Variables to Post Types
    3. Add advanced custom post type functionality
    4. Change the Menu Position (Dashboard) of the Custom Post Types
    5. Add custom post type icon


    1. Custom Post Types

    Custom Post Types allow to separate different content from the traditional blog content. Blog content usually is edited as Posts and Pages, whereas Pages (static content) can be organized in a hierarchical way and posts are sorted by categories and tags. In order to display static content (pages) using customized layout, we can create different page templates easily.

    Custom Post Types allow to sort content by Posts and Custom Post Types whereas custom post types are similar to posts but using custom taxonomies and as the case may be custom layouts or design adapted to the content. A typical example is a single product page from a shop compared to a single post page on the blog section of the website.

    For the purpose of our exercise we will create 3 Custom Post Types

    • WordPress Tips
    • WordPress Themes
    • WordPress Plugins

    Setting up post types is relatively easy; while we could use plugins to create custom post types, I think hard-coding is a more solid and professional way of creating them. To create a new Custom Post Type we just need to add a few lines of code to the functions file or in our case to the abstraction file at posttypes.php which will then be included int the functions.php as per above where we have added the include function into functions.php.

    We will create now the 3 Custom Post Types whereas the code used for each of them is the same except for the post type names and the function names.

    To create the first post type, edit posttypes.php and paste in:

    
<?php

// Add new post type for WP Tips
add_action('init', 'wordpress_tips_init');
function wordpress_tips_init()
{
$args = array(
'label' => _x('WP Tips'),
'singular_label' => _x('WP Tip'),
'public' => true,
'publicly_queryable' => true,
'show_ui' => true,
'query_var' => true,
'rewrite' => true,
'capability_type' => 'post',
'hierarchical' => false,
'menu_position' => null,
'supports' => array('title','editor','comments')
);
register_post_type('wordpress_tips',$args);
}

    Save the file.

    At the top we type a comment explaining what the following code is all about (Add new Post Type for WP Tips). Then we call the function in to WordPress with ‘add_action’ and at the bottom we register the post type. As you can see the function consists of a number of arguments which we will look into later ($args).

    Check out your Dashboard now and you will see that the new post type is added to the menu just above ‘Appearance’.

    To add new post types, you just need to copy and paste the above code and make simple changes to the name and labels of the post type.


    2. Add advanced Variables

    The above post types work, however they are not well refined. For this reason we will add some more variables. As the new posts are still called “Post” in the editor for example we will need to relabel to display the real name of the post type. For this we will write a label variable which can take an array of labels and we thus relabel all instances of our Custom Post Type.

    The variable we create with the array of labels looks as follows:

    
$wordpress_tips_labels = array(
'name' => _x('WP Tips', 'post type general name'),
'singular_name' => _x('WP Tip', 'post type singular name'),
'all_items' => __('All WP Tips'),
'add_new' => _x('Add new WP Tip', 'wordpress_tips'),
'add_new_item' => __('Add new WP Tip'),
'edit_item' => __('Edit WP Tip'),
'new_item' => __('New WP Tip'),
'view_item' => __('View WP Tip'),
'search_items' => __('Search in WP Tips'),
'not_found' =>  __('No WP Tips found'),
'not_found_in_trash' => __('No WP Tips found in trash'),
'parent_item_colon' => ''
);

    We will insert this piece of code just before our block of arguments and then change the arguments accordingly as follows:

    
<?php

// Add new post type for WP Tips
add_action('init', 'wordpress_tips_init');
function wordpress_tips_init()
{

$wordpress_tips_labels = array(
'name' => _x('WP Tips', 'post type general name'),
'singular_name' => _x('WP Tip', 'post type singular name'),
'all_items' => __('All WP Tips'),
'add_new' => _x('Add new WP Tip', 'wordpress_tips'),
'add_new_item' => __('Add new WP Tip'),
'edit_item' => __('Edit WP Tip'),
'new_item' => __('New WP Tip'),
'view_item' => __('View WP Tip'),
'search_items' => __('Search in WP Tips'),
'not_found' =>  __('No WP Tips found'),
'not_found_in_trash' => __('No WP Tips found in trash'),
'parent_item_colon' => ''
);
$args = array(

/*      'label' => _x('WP Tips'), */
'labels' => $wordpress_tips_labels,
/*      'singular_label' => _x('WP Tips'),   */
'public' => true,
'publicly_queryable' => true,
'show_ui' => true,
'query_var' => true,
'rewrite' => true,
'capability_type' => 'post',
'hierarchical' => false,
'menu_position' => null,
'supports' => array('title','editor','comments')
);
register_post_type('wordpress_tips',$args);
}

    As you can see from the two commented lines, we have changed ‘label’ to ‘labels and defined with the variable from above ‘$wordpress_tips_labels’ and we have deleted the ‘singular label’ as it is replaced wby ‘singular name’ from the label variable.

    For the other new post types it’s the same game, just copy and paste and change the labels accordingly.

    Save posttypes.php and check it out in your dashboard.

    You will now see all labels added and your site becomes a lot more user-friendly and less confusing.


    3. Add advanced functionality

    We can define the functionalities of our new post types with an array under the variable ‘supports’; basically the ‘supports’ line defines which functionalities should be supported, i.e. which content should be displayed.

    In our example, the line above looks like this:

    
'supports' => array('title','editor','comments')

    When you go to your dashboard, and add a new WP Tip you will see the editor shows the ‘title’, ‘content’ and ‘comments’ fields.

    While we can go crazy on adding supported functionality, we will here just look at some standard functionalities. To add more functionality we just need to append the array in the supports variable like so:

    
'supports' => array('title','editor','author','thumbnail','excerpt','comments','custom-fields'),
'has_archive' => 'wordpress_tips'

    By adding the above functionalities to the supports variable, we get something pretty close to the standard post editor, since we add the author, excerpts and custom fields as well as the featured picture functionality.

    Also we can add a new variable, such as ‘has archive’ and then name the archive, in our example ‘WordPress Tips’.

    This archive variable allows us to create an index page just for the WP Tips post  types.

    Our Code for the WP Tips Custom Post Type is as follows:

    
<?php

// Add new post type for WP Tips
add_action('init', 'wordpress_tips_init');
function wordpress_tips_init()
{

$wordpress_tips_labels = array(
'name' => _x('WP Tips', 'post type general name'),
'singular_name' => _x('WP Tip', 'post type singular name'),
'all_items' => __('All WP Tips'),
'add_new' => _x('Add new WP Tip', 'wordpress_tips'),
'add_new_item' => __('Add new WP Tip'),
'edit_item' => __('Edit WP Tip'),
'new_item' => __('New WP Tip'),
'view_item' => __('View WP Tip'),
'search_items' => __('Search in WP Tips'),
'not_found' =>  __('No WP Tips found'),
'not_found_in_trash' => __('No WP Tips found in trash'),
'parent_item_colon' => ''
);
$args = array(

/*      'label' => _x('WP Tips'), */
'labels' => $wordpress_tips_labels,
/*      'singular_label' => _x('WP Tips'),   */
'public' => true,
'publicly_queryable' => true,
'show_ui' => true,
'query_var' => true,
'rewrite' => true,
'capability_type' => 'post',
'hierarchical' => false,
'menu_position' => null,
'supports' => array('title','editor','author','thumbnail','excerpt','comments','custom-fields'),
'has_archive' => 'wordpress_tips'
);
register_post_type('wordpress_tips',$args);
}

    Copy and paste with the necessary changes for the other custom post types and save the file.

    Check it out from the Dashboard Menu and the Editor.


    4. Change the menu position

    As per now, our custom posts menu in the dashboard is positioned just above appearance and below comments. As custom posts are similar to posts, we want to move the custom post tabs just below the Posts tab.

    As you can see from our code above, the menu position is set to ‘null’. The value ‘null’ makes that the custom post types are added at the bottom of the first section of the dashboard menu.

    Depending of where you want to position your custom posts, you will need to change the value ‘null’ to another value according to the below reference scale:

    0 — at the very top
    5 — below Posts
    10 — below Media
    15 — below Links
    20 — below Pages
    25 — below comments
    60 — below first separator
    65 — below Plugins
    70 — below Users
    75 — below Tools
    80 — below Settings
    100 — below second separator

    As we aim the spot below “Posts” we will use the value ‘5’, which will result in

    
...

'menu_position' => 5,

...

    If you want to set a particular order, you can also use 3 different numbers, like 4,5 and 6 respectively.

    Do the modification inside the arguments of each post type and save.

    By repositioning the custom post type menu items , we signal priority and importance.

    Check it out from the dashboard and note that our custom posts are right below ‘Posts’ now.


    5. Add Custom Post Type Icons

    In order to make our custom post types stick out from the menu and to add user-friendly visual identifiers, we replace the default icons with custom icons.

    There are two sizes needed, 16px and 32 px for the menu and the page title area respectively.

    I have created sample icons and psd files for your convenience: please download from HERE.

    Decompress the downloaded rar file and copy the image folder into wp-contents/themes (as we had done with posttypes.php, as we want to make these images available to all themes.

    To add these icons we introduce a new function to posttypes.php with a function batch including some css/html code for styling purposes:

    
// Add new Custom Post Type icons
add_action( 'admin_head', 'wordpress_icons' );
function wordpress_icons() {
?>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
#menu-posts-wordpress_tips .wp-menu-image {
background: url(<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/wp-content/themes/images/tips-16x16.png) no-repeat 6px !important;
}
.icon32-posts-wordpress_tips {
background: url(<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/wp-content/themes/images/tips-32x32.png) no-repeat !important;
}
#menu-posts-wordpress_themes .wp-menu-image {
background: url(<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/wp-content/themes/images/themes-16x16.png) no-repeat 6px !important;
}
.icon32-posts-wordpress_themes {
background: url(<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/wp-content/themes/images/themes-32x32.png) no-repeat !important;
}
#menu-posts-wordpress_plugins .wp-menu-image {
background: url(<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/wp-content/themes/images/plugins-16x16.png) no-repeat 6px !important;
}
.icon32-posts-wordpress_plugins {
background: url(<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/wp-content/themes/images/plugins-32x32.png) no-repeat !important;
}

</style>
<?php }

    Note the incomplete php delimiter at the end which is needed to switch back to php from css/html code.


    Resulting posttypes.php code:

    At this stage, your posttypes.php looks as follows:

    
<?php

// Add new post type for WP Tips
add_action('init', 'wordpress_tips_init');
function wordpress_tips_init()
{
$wordpress_tips_labels = array(
'name' => _x('WP Tips', 'post type general name'),
'singular_name' => _x('WP Tip', 'post type singular name'),
'all_items' => __('All WP Tips'),
'add_new' => _x('Add new WP Tip', 'wordpress_tips'),
'add_new_item' => __('Add new WP Tip'),
'edit_item' => __('Edit WP Tip'),
'new_item' => __('New WP Tip'),
'view_item' => __('View WP Tip'),
'search_items' => __('Search in WP Tips'),
'not_found' =>  __('No WP Tips found'),
'not_found_in_trash' => __('No WP Tips found in trash'),
'parent_item_colon' => ''
);
$args = array(
/*        'label' => _x('WP Tips'), */
'labels' => $wordpress_tips_labels,
/*        'singular_label' => _x('WP Tips'),   */
'public' => true,
'publicly_queryable' => true,
'show_ui' => true,
'query_var' => true,
'rewrite' => true,
'capability_type' => 'post',
'hierarchical' => false,
'menu_position' => 5,
'supports' => array('title','editor','author','thumbnail','excerpt','comments','custom-fields'),
'has_archive' => 'wordpress_tips'
);
register_post_type('wordpress_tips',$args);
}

// Add new post type for WP Themes
add_action('init', 'wordpress_themes_init');
function wordpress_themes_init()
{

$wordpress_themes_labels = array(
'name' => _x('WP Themes', 'post type general name'),
'singular_name' => _x('WP Theme', 'post type singular name'),
'all_items' => __('All WP Themes'),
'add_new' => _x('Add new WP Theme', 'wordpress_themes'),
'add_new_item' => __('Add new WP Theme'),
'edit_item' => __('Edit WP Theme'),
'new_item' => __('New WP Theme'),
'view_item' => __('View WP Theme'),
'search_items' => __('Search in WP Themes'),
'not_found' =>  __('No WP Theme found'),
'not_found_in_trash' => __('No WP Theme found in trash'),
'parent_item_colon' => ''
);

$args = array(
'labels' => $wordpress_themes_labels,
'public' => true,
'publicly_queryable' => true,
'show_ui' => true,
'query_var' => true,
'rewrite' => true,
'capability_type' => 'post',
'hierarchical' => false,
'menu_position' => 5,
'supports' => array('title','editor','author','thumbnail','excerpt','comments','custom-fields'),
'has_archive' => 'wordpress_themes'
);
register_post_type('wordpress_themes',$args);
}

// Add new post type for WP Plugins
add_action('init', 'wordpress_plugins_init');
function wordpress_plugins_init()
{

$wordpress_plugins_labels = array(
'name' => _x('WP Plugins', 'post type general name'),
'singular_name' => _x('WP Plugin', 'post type singular name'),
'all_items' => __('All WP Plugins'),
'add_new' => _x('Add new WP Plugin', 'wordpress_plugins'),
'add_new_item' => __('Add new WP Plugin'),
'edit_item' => __('Edit WP Plugin'),
'new_item' => __('New WP Plugin'),
'view_item' => __('View WP Plugin'),
'search_items' => __('Search in WP Plugins'),
'not_found' =>  __('No WP Plugin found'),
'not_found_in_trash' => __('No WP Plugin found in trash'),
'parent_item_colon' => ''
);

$args = array(
'labels' => $wordpress_plugins_labels,
'public' => true,
'publicly_queryable' => true,
'show_ui' => true,
'query_var' => true,
'rewrite' => true,
'capability_type' => 'post',
'hierarchical' => false,
'menu_position' => 5,
'supports' => array('title','editor','author','thumbnail','excerpt','comments','custom-fields'),
'has_archive' => 'wordpress_plugins'
);
register_post_type('wordpress_plugins',$args);
}

// Add new Custom Post Type icons
add_action( 'admin_head', 'wordpress_icons' );
function wordpress_icons() {
?>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
#menu-posts-wordpress_tips .wp-menu-image {
background: url(<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/wp-content/themes/images/tips-16x16.png) no-repeat 6px !important;
}
.icon32-posts-wordpress_tips {
background: url(<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/wp-content/themes/images/tips-32x32.png) no-repeat !important;
}
#menu-posts-wordpress_themes .wp-menu-image {
background: url(<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/wp-content/themes/images/themes-16x16.png) no-repeat 6px !important;
}
.icon32-posts-wordpress_themes {
background: url(<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/wp-content/themes/images/themes-32x32.png) no-repeat !important;
}
#menu-posts-wordpress_plugins .wp-menu-image {
background: url(<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/wp-content/themes/images/plugins-16x16.png) no-repeat 6px !important;
}
.icon32-posts-wordpress_plugins {
background: url(<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/wp-content/themes/images/plugins-32x32.png) no-repeat !important;
}

</style>
<?php }

?>

    Check it out from your dashboard and you should see something similar to this:

    Custom Post Types

    Custom Post Types with Custom Icons

     

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    Customizing WordPress Child Theme

    Contents

    1. Customizing WordPress Child Theme

      1. Some basic WP Settings
      2. Custom Posts and Child Theme
      3. Child Theme functions.php
      4. Define Post Types in posttypes.php

        1. 1. Custom Post Types
        2. 2. Add advanced Variables
      5. 3. Add advanced functionality

        1. 4. Change the menu position
        2. 5. Add Custom Post Type Icons
      6. Resulting posttypes.php code:
     

    In this tutorial we will create Custom Post Types and add variables and functionality to them. Also we will add some styling for more user-friendly display in the dashboard.

    Having set up our basic Child Theme structure we will now proceed with the customization. But before that we will do some basic WP configuration and go through the settings. You may be used to building WordPress based sites and therefore you may have some habits in as much as settings and configuration are concerned.

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    Semiomantics XO Custom Magazine for WordPress


    Some basic WP Settings

    Here is what I do in the dashboard:

    1. Trash and permanently delete the Hello World Post.

    2. Delete the default Links.

    3. Set Permalinks to: /%category%/%postname%/

    4. Under Settings General enter Blog Name and Tagline; for the purpose of this exercise I use  as a Title: WordPress TTP and as a Tagline: Tips, Themes and Plugins

    5. Add some content to test content display by importing an RSS feed using a plugin such as Feedwordpress. I pulled into a new category called Blog the feed from my author-blog at:

    http://yorgonestoridis.com/feed


    Custom Posts and Child Theme

    We have set up a basic child theme for the purpose of modifying and customizing the Parent Theme. Creating structural modifications such as creating Custom Posts and Taxonomies are not strictly speaking theme relevant but should apply to all themes or as the case may be, to multiple themes in a Multi-user installation.

    For this reason we will lodge the file which defines the custom posts outside any specific theme folder but inside wp-contents/themes.

    We create a file called posttypes.php in wp-contents/themes. This file serves to define our custom post types and the way they integrate into the WP architecture.

    In order to include the new Post Types in our Child theme, we include the posttype.php using an include function. This we doby adding a new file to our child theme; this file we call functions.php.


    Child Theme functions.php

    As you know, every WP theme contains a functions.php file; when creating a child theme which needs to expand the functions existing in the parent theme, then we just add a file with the same name, ‘functions.php’ to the child theme and append the functions defined in the parent theme.

    Note: functions.php of the child theme does not override existing functions in the parent theme as is the case with styles (‘style.css)!

    PHP allows us easily to include files in a script with the ‘include’ function and then by adding the URL to the file you wish to include.

    Our ‘functions.php’ file will look as follows:

    
<?php
include_once (ABSPATH . 'wp-content/themes/posttypes.php');
?>

    Please note that we use the ABSPATH function to construct the URL as the normal url path

     url(".../themes/posttypes.php")

    does not work here.

    Save functions.php into your Child Theme Folder.


    Define Post Types in posttypes.php

    In order to set up our post types we proceed step by step:

    1. Set up Custom Post Types
    2. Add advanced Variables to Post Types
    3. Add advanced custom post type functionality
    4. Change the Menu Position (Dashboard) of the Custom Post Types
    5. Add custom post type icon


    1. Custom Post Types

    Custom Post Types allow to separate different content from the traditional blog content. Blog content usually is edited as Posts and Pages, whereas Pages (static content) can be organized in a hierarchical way and posts are sorted by categories and tags. In order to display static content (pages) using customized layout, we can create different page templates easily.

    Custom Post Types allow to sort content by Posts and Custom Post Types whereas custom post types are similar to posts but using custom taxonomies and as the case may be custom layouts or design adapted to the content. A typical example is a single product page from a shop compared to a single post page on the blog section of the website.

    For the purpose of our exercise we will create 3 Custom Post Types

    • WordPress Tips
    • WordPress Themes
    • WordPress Plugins

    Setting up post types is relatively easy; while we could use plugins to create custom post types, I think hard-coding is a more solid and professional way of creating them. To create a new Custom Post Type we just need to add a few lines of code to the functions file or in our case to the abstraction file at posttypes.php which will then be included int the functions.php as per above where we have added the include function into functions.php.

    We will create now the 3 Custom Post Types whereas the code used for each of them is the same except for the post type names and the function names.

    To create the first post type, edit posttypes.php and paste in:

    
<?php

// Add new post type for WP Tips
add_action('init', 'wordpress_tips_init');
function wordpress_tips_init()
{
$args = array(
'label' => _x('WP Tips'),
'singular_label' => _x('WP Tip'),
'public' => true,
'publicly_queryable' => true,
'show_ui' => true,
'query_var' => true,
'rewrite' => true,
'capability_type' => 'post',
'hierarchical' => false,
'menu_position' => null,
'supports' => array('title','editor','comments')
);
register_post_type('wordpress_tips',$args);
}

    Save the file.

    At the top we type a comment explaining what the following code is all about (Add new Post Type for WP Tips). Then we call the function in to WordPress with ‘add_action’ and at the bottom we register the post type. As you can see the function consists of a number of arguments which we will look into later ($args).

    Check out your Dashboard now and you will see that the new post type is added to the menu just above ‘Appearance’.

    To add new post types, you just need to copy and paste the above code and make simple changes to the name and labels of the post type.


    2. Add advanced Variables

    The above post types work, however they are not well refined. For this reason we will add some more variables. As the new posts are still called “Post” in the editor for example we will need to relabel to display the real name of the post type. For this we will write a label variable which can take an array of labels and we thus relabel all instances of our Custom Post Type.

    The variable we create with the array of labels looks as follows:

    
$wordpress_tips_labels = array(
'name' => _x('WP Tips', 'post type general name'),
'singular_name' => _x('WP Tip', 'post type singular name'),
'all_items' => __('All WP Tips'),
'add_new' => _x('Add new WP Tip', 'wordpress_tips'),
'add_new_item' => __('Add new WP Tip'),
'edit_item' => __('Edit WP Tip'),
'new_item' => __('New WP Tip'),
'view_item' => __('View WP Tip'),
'search_items' => __('Search in WP Tips'),
'not_found' =>  __('No WP Tips found'),
'not_found_in_trash' => __('No WP Tips found in trash'),
'parent_item_colon' => ''
);

    We will insert this piece of code just before our block of arguments and then change the arguments accordingly as follows:

    
<?php

// Add new post type for WP Tips
add_action('init', 'wordpress_tips_init');
function wordpress_tips_init()
{

$wordpress_tips_labels = array(
'name' => _x('WP Tips', 'post type general name'),
'singular_name' => _x('WP Tip', 'post type singular name'),
'all_items' => __('All WP Tips'),
'add_new' => _x('Add new WP Tip', 'wordpress_tips'),
'add_new_item' => __('Add new WP Tip'),
'edit_item' => __('Edit WP Tip'),
'new_item' => __('New WP Tip'),
'view_item' => __('View WP Tip'),
'search_items' => __('Search in WP Tips'),
'not_found' =>  __('No WP Tips found'),
'not_found_in_trash' => __('No WP Tips found in trash'),
'parent_item_colon' => ''
);
$args = array(

/*      'label' => _x('WP Tips'), */
'labels' => $wordpress_tips_labels,
/*      'singular_label' => _x('WP Tips'),   */
'public' => true,
'publicly_queryable' => true,
'show_ui' => true,
'query_var' => true,
'rewrite' => true,
'capability_type' => 'post',
'hierarchical' => false,
'menu_position' => null,
'supports' => array('title','editor','comments')
);
register_post_type('wordpress_tips',$args);
}

    As you can see from the two commented lines, we have changed ‘label’ to ‘labels and defined with the variable from above ‘$wordpress_tips_labels’ and we have deleted the ‘singular label’ as it is replaced wby ‘singular name’ from the label variable.

    For the other new post types it’s the same game, just copy and paste and change the labels accordingly.

    Save posttypes.php and check it out in your dashboard.

    You will now see all labels added and your site becomes a lot more user-friendly and less confusing.


    3. Add advanced functionality

    We can define the functionalities of our new post types with an array under the variable ‘supports’; basically the ‘supports’ line defines which functionalities should be supported, i.e. which content should be displayed.

    In our example, the line above looks like this:

    
'supports' => array('title','editor','comments')

    When you go to your dashboard, and add a new WP Tip you will see the editor shows the ‘title’, ‘content’ and ‘comments’ fields.

    While we can go crazy on adding supported functionality, we will here just look at some standard functionalities. To add more functionality we just need to append the array in the supports variable like so:

    
'supports' => array('title','editor','author','thumbnail','excerpt','comments','custom-fields'),
'has_archive' => 'wordpress_tips'

    By adding the above functionalities to the supports variable, we get something pretty close to the standard post editor, since we add the author, excerpts and custom fields as well as the featured picture functionality.

    Also we can add a new variable, such as ‘has archive’ and then name the archive, in our example ‘WordPress Tips’.

    This archive variable allows us to create an index page just for the WP Tips post  types.

    Our Code for the WP Tips Custom Post Type is as follows:

    
<?php

// Add new post type for WP Tips
add_action('init', 'wordpress_tips_init');
function wordpress_tips_init()
{

$wordpress_tips_labels = array(
'name' => _x('WP Tips', 'post type general name'),
'singular_name' => _x('WP Tip', 'post type singular name'),
'all_items' => __('All WP Tips'),
'add_new' => _x('Add new WP Tip', 'wordpress_tips'),
'add_new_item' => __('Add new WP Tip'),
'edit_item' => __('Edit WP Tip'),
'new_item' => __('New WP Tip'),
'view_item' => __('View WP Tip'),
'search_items' => __('Search in WP Tips'),
'not_found' =>  __('No WP Tips found'),
'not_found_in_trash' => __('No WP Tips found in trash'),
'parent_item_colon' => ''
);
$args = array(

/*      'label' => _x('WP Tips'), */
'labels' => $wordpress_tips_labels,
/*      'singular_label' => _x('WP Tips'),   */
'public' => true,
'publicly_queryable' => true,
'show_ui' => true,
'query_var' => true,
'rewrite' => true,
'capability_type' => 'post',
'hierarchical' => false,
'menu_position' => null,
'supports' => array('title','editor','author','thumbnail','excerpt','comments','custom-fields'),
'has_archive' => 'wordpress_tips'
);
register_post_type('wordpress_tips',$args);
}

    Copy and paste with the necessary changes for the other custom post types and save the file.

    Check it out from the Dashboard Menu and the Editor.


    4. Change the menu position

    As per now, our custom posts menu in the dashboard is positioned just above appearance and below comments. As custom posts are similar to posts, we want to move the custom post tabs just below the Posts tab.

    As you can see from our code above, the menu position is set to ‘null’. The value ‘null’ makes that the custom post types are added at the bottom of the first section of the dashboard menu.

    Depending of where you want to position your custom posts, you will need to change the value ‘null’ to another value according to the below reference scale:

    0 — at the very top
    5 — below Posts
    10 — below Media
    15 — below Links
    20 — below Pages
    25 — below comments
    60 — below first separator
    65 — below Plugins
    70 — below Users
    75 — below Tools
    80 — below Settings
    100 — below second separator

    As we aim the spot below “Posts” we will use the value ‘5’, which will result in

    
...

'menu_position' => 5,

...

    If you want to set a particular order, you can also use 3 different numbers, like 4,5 and 6 respectively.

    Do the modification inside the arguments of each post type and save.

    By repositioning the custom post type menu items , we signal priority and importance.

    Check it out from the dashboard and note that our custom posts are right below ‘Posts’ now.


    5. Add Custom Post Type Icons

    In order to make our custom post types stick out from the menu and to add user-friendly visual identifiers, we replace the default icons with custom icons.

    There are two sizes needed, 16px and 32 px for the menu and the page title area respectively.

    I have created sample icons and psd files for your convenience: please download from HERE.

    Decompress the downloaded rar file and copy the image folder into wp-contents/themes (as we had done with posttypes.php, as we want to make these images available to all themes.

    To add these icons we introduce a new function to posttypes.php with a function batch including some css/html code for styling purposes:

    
// Add new Custom Post Type icons
add_action( 'admin_head', 'wordpress_icons' );
function wordpress_icons() {
?>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
#menu-posts-wordpress_tips .wp-menu-image {
background: url(<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/wp-content/themes/images/tips-16x16.png) no-repeat 6px !important;
}
.icon32-posts-wordpress_tips {
background: url(<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/wp-content/themes/images/tips-32x32.png) no-repeat !important;
}
#menu-posts-wordpress_themes .wp-menu-image {
background: url(<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/wp-content/themes/images/themes-16x16.png) no-repeat 6px !important;
}
.icon32-posts-wordpress_themes {
background: url(<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/wp-content/themes/images/themes-32x32.png) no-repeat !important;
}
#menu-posts-wordpress_plugins .wp-menu-image {
background: url(<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/wp-content/themes/images/plugins-16x16.png) no-repeat 6px !important;
}
.icon32-posts-wordpress_plugins {
background: url(<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/wp-content/themes/images/plugins-32x32.png) no-repeat !important;
}

</style>
<?php }

    Note the incomplete php delimiter at the end which is needed to switch back to php from css/html code.


    Resulting posttypes.php code:

    At this stage, your posttypes.php looks as follows:

    
<?php

// Add new post type for WP Tips
add_action('init', 'wordpress_tips_init');
function wordpress_tips_init()
{
$wordpress_tips_labels = array(
'name' => _x('WP Tips', 'post type general name'),
'singular_name' => _x('WP Tip', 'post type singular name'),
'all_items' => __('All WP Tips'),
'add_new' => _x('Add new WP Tip', 'wordpress_tips'),
'add_new_item' => __('Add new WP Tip'),
'edit_item' => __('Edit WP Tip'),
'new_item' => __('New WP Tip'),
'view_item' => __('View WP Tip'),
'search_items' => __('Search in WP Tips'),
'not_found' =>  __('No WP Tips found'),
'not_found_in_trash' => __('No WP Tips found in trash'),
'parent_item_colon' => ''
);
$args = array(
/*        'label' => _x('WP Tips'), */
'labels' => $wordpress_tips_labels,
/*        'singular_label' => _x('WP Tips'),   */
'public' => true,
'publicly_queryable' => true,
'show_ui' => true,
'query_var' => true,
'rewrite' => true,
'capability_type' => 'post',
'hierarchical' => false,
'menu_position' => 5,
'supports' => array('title','editor','author','thumbnail','excerpt','comments','custom-fields'),
'has_archive' => 'wordpress_tips'
);
register_post_type('wordpress_tips',$args);
}

// Add new post type for WP Themes
add_action('init', 'wordpress_themes_init');
function wordpress_themes_init()
{

$wordpress_themes_labels = array(
'name' => _x('WP Themes', 'post type general name'),
'singular_name' => _x('WP Theme', 'post type singular name'),
'all_items' => __('All WP Themes'),
'add_new' => _x('Add new WP Theme', 'wordpress_themes'),
'add_new_item' => __('Add new WP Theme'),
'edit_item' => __('Edit WP Theme'),
'new_item' => __('New WP Theme'),
'view_item' => __('View WP Theme'),
'search_items' => __('Search in WP Themes'),
'not_found' =>  __('No WP Theme found'),
'not_found_in_trash' => __('No WP Theme found in trash'),
'parent_item_colon' => ''
);

$args = array(
'labels' => $wordpress_themes_labels,
'public' => true,
'publicly_queryable' => true,
'show_ui' => true,
'query_var' => true,
'rewrite' => true,
'capability_type' => 'post',
'hierarchical' => false,
'menu_position' => 5,
'supports' => array('title','editor','author','thumbnail','excerpt','comments','custom-fields'),
'has_archive' => 'wordpress_themes'
);
register_post_type('wordpress_themes',$args);
}

// Add new post type for WP Plugins
add_action('init', 'wordpress_plugins_init');
function wordpress_plugins_init()
{

$wordpress_plugins_labels = array(
'name' => _x('WP Plugins', 'post type general name'),
'singular_name' => _x('WP Plugin', 'post type singular name'),
'all_items' => __('All WP Plugins'),
'add_new' => _x('Add new WP Plugin', 'wordpress_plugins'),
'add_new_item' => __('Add new WP Plugin'),
'edit_item' => __('Edit WP Plugin'),
'new_item' => __('New WP Plugin'),
'view_item' => __('View WP Plugin'),
'search_items' => __('Search in WP Plugins'),
'not_found' =>  __('No WP Plugin found'),
'not_found_in_trash' => __('No WP Plugin found in trash'),
'parent_item_colon' => ''
);

$args = array(
'labels' => $wordpress_plugins_labels,
'public' => true,
'publicly_queryable' => true,
'show_ui' => true,
'query_var' => true,
'rewrite' => true,
'capability_type' => 'post',
'hierarchical' => false,
'menu_position' => 5,
'supports' => array('title','editor','author','thumbnail','excerpt','comments','custom-fields'),
'has_archive' => 'wordpress_plugins'
);
register_post_type('wordpress_plugins',$args);
}

// Add new Custom Post Type icons
add_action( 'admin_head', 'wordpress_icons' );
function wordpress_icons() {
?>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
#menu-posts-wordpress_tips .wp-menu-image {
background: url(<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/wp-content/themes/images/tips-16x16.png) no-repeat 6px !important;
}
.icon32-posts-wordpress_tips {
background: url(<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/wp-content/themes/images/tips-32x32.png) no-repeat !important;
}
#menu-posts-wordpress_themes .wp-menu-image {
background: url(<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/wp-content/themes/images/themes-16x16.png) no-repeat 6px !important;
}
.icon32-posts-wordpress_themes {
background: url(<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/wp-content/themes/images/themes-32x32.png) no-repeat !important;
}
#menu-posts-wordpress_plugins .wp-menu-image {
background: url(<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/wp-content/themes/images/plugins-16x16.png) no-repeat 6px !important;
}
.icon32-posts-wordpress_plugins {
background: url(<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/wp-content/themes/images/plugins-32x32.png) no-repeat !important;
}

</style>
<?php }

?>

    Check it out from your dashboard and you should see something similar to this:

    Custom Post Types

    Custom Post Types with Custom Icons

     

    Related posts:

    1. How to build a Custom WordPress Site 2
    2. How to build a custom WordPress Site
    3. Custom Widgets for WordPress
    4. WordPress 3.4 Beta
    5. Facebook Strategy with WordPress
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    Web Design with Passion back on new PC

    Finally, Web Design with Passion is back on a new PC…. actually a whole new OS on 64bit. What a journey… and this with powercuts and connectivity issues… all fun but we’re getting there!

    Bee Bianca Gubalke Image - We are back on a new PC

    We grow through our struggles… but inbetween I just imagine myself being that happy, fat and buzzing bumble bee in my garden floating from flower to flower and living in complete bliss!

    Web Design with Passion back on new PC

    To get Web Design with Passion back on a new PC meant and still means installing each and every program from scratch. Not that this isn’t an interesting and instructive exercise nor is it the first time I do this – but it’s time-consuming and often frustrating especially when there is such a huge list to do!

    However, starting out from scratch has its merits that can be compared to the annual spring clean-out: unless you are an obsessive gatherer and collector, it’s a good time to get rid of everything that’s superfluous and not absolutely necessary and becoming lean and light with lots of potential to move forward with a new and speedy lightness of being and let the creative juices flow. I’m not quite there yet as too puzzled by some mysteries noone else knew an answer to so far – but here’s my first post ‘after the storm’ and it can only get better and faster!

    YEBO GOGO – this is about being a student for life!

     

     

    ]]>     http://news.yorgonestoridis.com/online-business/web-design-with-passion-back-on-new-pc/feed/ 0     Ponto Grill and Carvery http://news.yorgonestoridis.com/online-business/ponto-grill-and-carvery/ http://news.yorgonestoridis.com/online-business/ponto-grill-and-carvery/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 08:53:00 +0000 Lalakoi http://lalakoipublishing.com/?p=8046

    Ponto Grill and Carvery

    ponto grill and carvery
    Ponto Grill and Carvery in situated at the Point, a well-known landmark of Mossel Bay and the heart of the happenings for the local community. We honour our heritage by celebrating Portuguese classics while feasting on fabulous local food. Ponto, which is Point in Portuguese, is in memory of Portuguese explorers who set food on our shores to replenish.

    Restaurant in Mossel Bay

    Ponto Grill and Carvery offers guests a menu consisting of only the most delicious meals such as succulent Hake, Prawns, Rump and T-bone, Chicken and Schnitzels to Espetados, Burgers, Ribs, Kiddies Menu and our very popular Carvery every day. Prices at this Restaurant in Mossel Bay range from R28 to R129 per meal. All main courses are served with hand cut chunky chips, savoury rice or an oven baked potato.

    ponto grill and carvery

    Eating Out in Mossel Bay

    Come and enjoy eating out in Mossel Bay at Ponto Grill and Carvery. We are known for our excellent service, good quality food and relaxed atmosphere. Bring your friends and family and enjoy a meal of cocktail overlooking the spectacular views of the shore at the Point, Mossel Bay.

    ponto grill and carvery

    Mossel Bay Family Restaurant

    Ponto Grill and Carvery is an ideal family restaurant in Mossel Bay, offering an environment where you can enjoy your meal and relax with your family. Our Kiddies Menu consists of Burgers, Golden Fish, Ribs and Toasties with chips.

    Be sure to come and experience the truly unique Portuguese atmosphere and excellent food at Ponto Grill and Carvery!

    ]]>     http://news.yorgonestoridis.com/online-business/ponto-grill-and-carvery/feed/ 0     Café Chinno’s http://news.yorgonestoridis.com/online-business/cafe-chinno%e2%80%99s/ http://news.yorgonestoridis.com/online-business/cafe-chinno%e2%80%99s/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 18:58:45 +0000 Lalakoi http://lalakoipublishing.com/?p=8039

    Café Chinno’s

    Café Chinno’s Fully Licensed Coffee Shop and Restaurant in George

    Café Chinno’s offer’s a welcoming atmosphere where customers can relax and enjoy a mouth watering breakfast, brunch or lunch and freshly baked sweet treats. Or simply enjoy a cup of coffee, tea, milkshake or even something stronger.

    This fully licensed coffee shop and restaurant is located in the St George Square in George, with a variety of shops including a supermarket, where ample parking is available. Both indoor and outdoor seating is available. Two televisions indoors allow visitors to watch sporting and other events.

    Breakfast and Lunch in George at Café Chinno’s

    cafe chinnos

    Start your day with a French Toast Stack, Omelet or any of the other breakfast options on the menu. Breakfast is served all day. Don’t rush home for lunch – visit Café Chinno’s. The trammezzi’s and burgers with homemade patties are very popular. Lighter options including sandwiches, salads, pancakes, wraps and spuds are also available. Tea time treats includes the ever so popular carrot cake, muffins, scones, croissants and more. Snack platters can also be ordered.   All items on the menu are available as take aways.

    Function Venue in George on the Garden Route

    cafe chinnos

    For years Cafe Chinno’s in George on the Garden Route has been a place where friends gather to enjoy good coffee and good food.  Now you can also book the restaurant as venue for your own private function in the evenings. Contact the management to discuss your personal needs and preferences.

    Café Chinno’s Trading Hours

    • Monday to Friday: 07:30 to 18:00
    • Saturday: 08:00 to 15:00
    • Sunday: 08:30 to 15:00

    visit-our-website

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    Pizzanello’s Restaurant and Action Bar

    pizzanellos restaurant george

    Dining Out at the Restaurant in George Serving the Best Traditional Pizza in Town

    All pizza’s at the Pizzanello’s Restaurant in George are handmade the traditional way with fresh dough prepared on the premises. The pizza’s come standard with tomato base and plenty of mozzarella cheese and is baked in special pizza ovens.

    pizzanellos restaurant george

    The menu includes a wide variety catering for almost any taste and preference. All pizzas are available with the option of free garlic and chilli on request. Dining out at Pizzanello’s will have you agree that they make the best pizza and baked pastas in town. Take-aways are also available.

    Family friendly restaurant in George

    pizzanellos restaurant george
    Pizzanello’s is a family friendly restaurant where groups are welcome and functions can also be hosted. This restaurant in George is fully licensed and visitors can watch the latest sporting events in the Action Bar. Regular specials are available.

    Business Hours of Pizzanello’s Restaurant and Action Bar

    • Monday to Saturday: 10am to 10pm
    • Sundays: 4 pm to 8pmVisit-our-website

    ]]>     http://news.yorgonestoridis.com/online-business/pizzanello%e2%80%99s-restaurant-and-action-bar/feed/ 0     How to build a Custom WordPress Site 2 http://news.yorgonestoridis.com/news/how-to-build-a-custom-wordpress-site-2/ http://news.yorgonestoridis.com/news/how-to-build-a-custom-wordpress-site-2/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 10:25:22 +0000 Yorgo Nestoridis http://yorgonestoridis.com/?p=22998
  • How to build a custom WordPress Site
  • Semiomantics XO Transparent WordPress Drafts
  • How to make WordPress Themes Responsive
  • WordPress Themes and Development
  • WordPress 3.4 Beta
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    Build a Custom WP with Semiomantics XO

    This post focuses on setting up our Main Theme and a Child Theme. For the purpose of this exercise we will use Semiomantics XO as the parent theme because it’s flexible, user-friendly and highly optimized. In fact you can use most any decent WP theme to follow this tutorial, namely the TwentyEleven which comes with the WP installation.

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    Adding a Theme

    Like on any live site, our test site on BitNami allows us to add themes either from the Dashboard (upload the theme’s zip file) or by pasting the theme into the themes folder in wp-contents.

    Access your BitNami environment using Windows Explorer and surf to the themes folder. You will see the same folders and files structure under htdocs as you are used to when accessing your WordPress folder on a server using an FTP client.

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    In order to add Themes, we just drop theme folders into the ‘themes’ folder as per above. As you can see, I have amongst others) added my Semiomantics XO (the ‘xo’ folder under themes). XO will serve as the parent theme of the new website. Instead however of customizing XO directly, I will create a child theme which will contain all modifications. The advantage is clear: when an update or upgrade of the theme becomes available, the parent theme can be updated without destroying the child and restarting the customization job from scratch.

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    Create a WP Child Theme for Semiomantics XO

    A WordPress child theme consists first of all of a Folder to which we add a style-sheet.

    This style-sheet contains a commented header which defines the parent theme folder as well as other optional data and it usually imports the parent theme’s style-sheet with a simple line of code (no need to copy paste the whole style-sheet). Also we will add a screenshot which will serve as a thumbnail in the Themes tab of our WP Dashboard.

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    As you can see above, I am editing my files using the free title="PSPAD" href="http://pspad.com" >PSPad which is handy to edit the various files we need to develop.

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    How to Create a Child Theme step by Step

    1. Add a new folder to the WP Themes folder under wp-contents/themes; name it as you like your theme to be named, in my case: yorgo12

    2. Create a new file called style.css using your editor and save it into the new theme folder.

    3. Edit the style.css file by adding a commented section defining:

    • Theme Name  (yorgo12 in the above case)
    • Theme URI    (this is optional and can be your website where you may talk about your theme; in my case: semiomantics.com)
    • Description    (Optional; I have added a simple description, but you may well describe your Child theme, for example: 3 column minimalist child theme for Semiomantics XO.
    • Author:           (Optional; put your name.)
    • Template:  This is important: put the FOLDER NAME of the parent theme, in my case xo.
    • Version:          (Optional: I start with version 1.0)

    You could add other data as some authors do, such as Author’s URI and more, but that’s not necessary.

    NOTE: All the above information sits between comment tags (/*.….….*/)

    Next, we import the style-sheet of the parent theme with the following line of code:

    
@import url("../xo/style.css");

    I have then added a comment to remind that you should not edit above unless you know what you do.

    Your style.css file reads now similar to the following:

    
/*
Theme Name:       yorgo12
Theme URI:        http://semiomantics.com
Description:      Child Theme for Semiomantics XO 12
Author:           Yorgo Nestoridis
Template:         xo
Version:          1.0
*/
@import url("../xo/style.css");
/* Edit here below*/

    Save the file into the new Child Theme folder.

    4. Add a Thumbnail

    Usually the image represents a screenshot of the new site but it can also be a brand logo or any other image. Important: the image should be called ‘screenshot’ and be in png format to fit into WP. Use image size 300px x 225px for best display.

    id="attachment_23003" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 310px"> href="http://yorgonestoridis.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/screenshot1.png"> class="size-full wp-image-23003" title="screenshot.png" src="http://yorgonestoridis.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/screenshot1.png" alt="screenshot.png" width="300" height="225" /> class="wp-caption-text">screenshot.png

    Drop the image into the Child Theme folder.

    Let’s now activate our new Child Theme from the WP Dashboard under Appearance/Themes.

    What you will see is an out of the box XO when looking at the front-end of the site.

    Having set the base for our custom development, we will start now to adapt the site to the needs of the hypothetical customer. Continue reading the next post.

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    Custom WordPress Design and Developments

    This post will start a series of articles about building custom Websites based on WordPress and the Semiomantics XO Theme.

    We will therefore use most of our remaining daily Ycademy calls this month to go into advanced customization issues. But first we will start at the beginning by planning and formulating a project which will allow us to test code, functions and design.

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    The WordPress Custom Project

    For the purpose of this exercise, we will build plan and execute a hypothetical customer’s project.

    The new website will be about WordPress, namely about WordPress Tips, Themes and Plugins. It’s a site for a WordPress developer and web designer.

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    The Architecture of the site

    The structure of the Website will be based on WordPress and include some static pages such as the About, Contact, Imprint and Privacy pages as well as structured dynamic content.  As the site will focus on 3 main topics, Tips, Themes and Plugins, we will build for each of these topics custom Posts and Taxonomies.

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    The Developer’s environment

    To build the new website in a test environment, we install title="BitNami WordPress Stack" href="http://bitnami.org/stack/wordpress" >BitNami and namely the WordPress stack (free download). BitNami creates an independent (Apache) server environment with MySQL server and installed WordPress, ready to use via our browser. If you are used to Firefox and Firebug, you will find it easy to customize your styles and designs.

    Now we can access the WordPress Dashboard via the browser and the files using windows explorer.

    We are ready to start working on our project. Please look forward to the next related post where we will start adding Semiomantics XO and start building our custom child theme.

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    ]]>     http://news.yorgonestoridis.com/news/how-to-build-a-custom-wordpress-site/feed/ 0     Holmakiesie met Marion Holm http://news.yorgonestoridis.com/news/holmakiesie-met-marion-holm/ http://news.yorgonestoridis.com/news/holmakiesie-met-marion-holm/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 05:55:40 +0000 Lalakoi http://lalakoipublishing.com/?p=8021

    Holmakiesie met Marion Holm

    Ons almal weet van bollemakiesie slaan, maar wat sou ‘n HOLMAKIESIE wees?

    Holmakiesie met Marion Holm

    Dóén ‘n mens dit of kýk ‘n mens dit of EET ‘n mens dit??

    HOLMAKIESIE – miskien kan jy dit ook doen – wie weet…

    Kom kyk na Marion Holm se negende eenvrou-vertoning en vind uit.  Sy en Chris Vorster span weer eens saam om ‘n teks daar te stel wat oud en jonk sal laat giggel, goed voel en laat dink en die regie is ook deur Chris waargeneem.  Holm vertel haar stories soos net sy kan en stel in die proses die gehoor bekend aan ‘n paar nuwe karakters, maar doen nie afstand van die ou geliefde karakters wat gehore oor die jare laat lag het nie.

    Specials Offers at the Bravo Lounge

    • Double Klipdrift/Richelieu and Coke R20
    • Double Klipdrift Premium & Coke R25
    • Buy any double spirit @ get a free soda-fountain mix
    • Brutal Fruit R10
    • Savannah Light & Dry R12
    • Hake & Chips with free glass of wine or 250ml Castle Draught @ R59

    When:     May 30, 2012 @ 8:00 pm – 9:15 pm
    Where:    Bravo Lounge, Garden Route Casino Mossel Bay
    Cost:        R100.00, SIR Lede R80.00

     

    visit our website

    ]]>     http://news.yorgonestoridis.com/news/holmakiesie-met-marion-holm/feed/ 0     Motion Body Panels and Windscreens http://news.yorgonestoridis.com/online-business/motion-body-panels-and-windscreens/ http://news.yorgonestoridis.com/online-business/motion-body-panels-and-windscreens/#comments Fri, 11 May 2012 10:01:05 +0000 Lalakoi http://lalakoipublishing.com/?p=8015

    Body Panels Mossel Bay Garden Route

    Motion Body Panels and Windscreens has been in the Automobile Part and Accessories industry for the past 4 years during which it earned a reputation for quality parts and excellent service. The owner Danie; offers all his clients hands on and excellent service and advice on Body Panels and Windscreens at his shop in Mossel Bay, Garden Route.

    motion body panels and winscreens

    Motion offers a range of Pirate Body Panels such as Bonnets, Bumpers, Fenders, any Lights and Mirrors and much more. If they do not stock the product you need, they will do their best to find it for you.

    Windscreens Mossel Bay Garden Route

    Need a Windscreen in Mossel Bay Garden Route? Motion Body Panels and Windscreens can assist you with quality windscreens for any make or model vehicle at the best prices in town.

    motion body panels and winscreens

    SABAT Batteries available at Motion in Mossel Bay Garden Route

    Motion Body Panels and Windscreens stocks a range of quality SABAT Batteries in Mossel Bay.  SABAT Batteries are one of the leading battery brands and offers a reliable battery with a 12 month guarantee. Danie at Motion will install the battery for you free of charge with every battery bought at Motion Body Panels and Windscreens.

    Automobile Accessories at Motion in Mossel Bay Garden Route

    Motion Body Panels and Windscreens offers a large range of automobile accessories including Bonnet Guards, Windshields, Light Guards, Car Logos, Globes for all vehicle lights and much more.  Danie mainly stocks Nexon parts but will be able to assist you with any other request regarding parts and panels you might have.

    Motion Body Panels and Windscreens takes pride in offering the best prices in town!

    ]]>     http://news.yorgonestoridis.com/online-business/motion-body-panels-and-windscreens/feed/ 0     CBS Biltong and Cigarettes http://news.yorgonestoridis.com/news/cbs-biltong-and-cigarettes/ http://news.yorgonestoridis.com/news/cbs-biltong-and-cigarettes/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 12:19:17 +0000 Lalakoi http://lalakoipublishing.com/?p=8002

    Garden Route Biltong Shop

    cbs biltong mossel bay
    CBS Biltong and Cigarettes is conveniently situated in Dias Beach Boulevard in Mossel Bay Garden Route. If you are looking to purchase only a few pieces of top quality biltong or dried sausage as a snack or if you want to stock your biltong shop, Carika and Reinaldo from CBS Biltong will be able to assist you.

    Biltong Distributors in Mossel Bay

    CBS Biltong and Cigarettes are well known for being a biltong distributor offering quality and competitive priced biltong products. We distribute countrywide.

    cbs biltong mossel bay

    Tasty Beef, Game and Ostrich Biltong at Garden Route Biltong

    For many years we are the producers of not only beef biltong but our ostrich and game biltong is also very popular. At our shop in Mossel Bay you will be able to get the biltong you are looking for. Be it biltong with that “lekker vetjie” on the side or a lean game-, ostrich- or beef stick with a chilli or chutney flavour or spiced with the original secret recipe, you will be satisfied with your purchase.  Our grated biltong is also a winner. Ever tried our biltong powder on a slice of bread? Our dried sausage is also distributed country wide and we also offer beef, ostrich and game “Droë wors” chilli-, BBQ- and chutney flavoured as well as smoked. Our famous cabanossis are also very popular.

    cbs biltong mossel bay

    Garden Route Cigarette Wholesalers

    CBS Biltong and Cigarettes are distributing our cigarettes in the Garden Route. Our prices are reasonable.

    Cheese available at CBS Biltong and Cigarettes in Mossel Bay

    CBS Biltong and Cigarettes not only stocks biltong and related products but we also offer Cheddar, Mozzarella and Gouda Cheese at affordable and competitive rates.

    Business Hours at CBS Biltong and Cigarettes

    Mondays to Fridays: 08h00 till 17h00
    Saturdays: 09h00 till 13h00

    ]]>     http://news.yorgonestoridis.com/news/cbs-biltong-and-cigarettes/feed/ 0     Nike Air Huarache ‘Basketball Edition 2012? at Global… http://news.yorgonestoridis.com/online-business/nike-air-huarache-%e2%80%98basketball-edition-2012%e2%80%b2-at-global%e2%80%a6/ http://news.yorgonestoridis.com/online-business/nike-air-huarache-%e2%80%98basketball-edition-2012%e2%80%b2-at-global%e2%80%a6/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 11:46:09 +0000 Junayd http://globalsportsus.com/?p=46552

    Nike have released a few different colour ways for the Air Huarache recently, but now they have released the hightop versions with some beautiful colours for all you sneaker heads. Make sure you check out the lineup that Global have to offer…

    Model: Nike Air Huarache ‘BBall Sport Red’
    Release Date: 1/7/2012
    Product Code: 488054-061
    Colour Code: Black/Fire Red

    Model: Nike Air Huarache ‘Volt’
    Release Date: 1/3/2012
    Product Code: 488054-100
    Colour Code: White/Black/Volt Yellow

    Model: Nike Air Huarache ‘Mahogany’
    Release Date: 19/7/2012
    Product Code: 488054-661
    Colour Code: Mahogany/Black/Sport Red

    ]]>     http://news.yorgonestoridis.com/online-business/nike-air-huarache-%e2%80%98basketball-edition-2012%e2%80%b2-at-global%e2%80%a6/feed/ 0     Light City and Electrical http://news.yorgonestoridis.com/news/light-city-and-electrical/ http://news.yorgonestoridis.com/news/light-city-and-electrical/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 11:41:26 +0000 Lalakoi http://lalakoipublishing.com/?p=7994

    Light City and Electrical

    Light City and Electrical
    Light City and Electrical is one of the leading Lighting and Electrical Supply stores in the Mossel Bay area. Light City has been operating for 4 years under the capable management of the Claasen’s.

    Lighting and Electrical Mossel Bay

    At Light City and Electrical in Mossel Bay, we supply a range of energy saving lamps, LED’s, fluorescent tubes and light fittings for commercial and domestic lighting applications. Some of the brands we stock include Radiant, Eurolux, Spazio, K-Light and Bright Star.

    Light City and Electrical

    Lighting Lamps and Shades Mossel Bay Garden Route

    Light City and Electrical offers general lighting applications for commercial, retail and domestic use. We stock a range of top quality lamps, chandeliers, shades, light fittings, floor lamps, table lamps, pendants and globes at our shop in Mossel Bay, Garden Route.

    Light City and Electrical

    Electrical Supplies in Mossel Bay Garden Route

    Our Electrical Supplies includes wall switches, dimmer switches, isolator switches, bell pushes, data network sockets, electronic dimmer switches, socket outlets as well as extension cords and much more. Light City and Electrical supplies a full range of switches, sockets and dimmers to suit every customer need, from homeowner to professional.

    ]]>     http://news.yorgonestoridis.com/news/light-city-and-electrical/feed/ 0     Air Jordan 4 Retro ‘Mars Blackmon’ at Global Now!!! http://news.yorgonestoridis.com/online-business/air-jordan-4-retro-%e2%80%98mars-blackmon%e2%80%99-at-global-now/ http://news.yorgonestoridis.com/online-business/air-jordan-4-retro-%e2%80%98mars-blackmon%e2%80%99-at-global-now/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 11:06:35 +0000 Junayd http://globalsportsus.com/?p=46539

    The Fire Red Air Jordan IV also know as ‘Marsblackmon’ has been the Holy Grail of many collectors over the years. The fortunate few who had a pair were envied by the thousands of Jordan heads who were still searching. Released in 1989, finding a pair in deadstock or decent condition was hard enough. Many collectors were happy to score a pair that needed a reconstructive restoration job. Upon completion, the pair of Jordan IV Fire Reds would usually be for display only never to see the basketball court or be on someone’s foot ever again.

    In May of 2005, a limited edition version of the Jordan 4 Fire Red was made available exclusively. Only members had the ability of purchasing a pair of the Laser Jordan 4 Fire Reds. At $200, many considered this to be a steal. So many that there are estimates that more than half of the Laser Jordan 4 Fire Reds were bought with the intent to resell. The Laser Jordan 4 Fire Reds hit eBay immediately after orders were confirmed. Some sellers were fetching over $500 for this package that they themselves had not yet received. The Jordan 4 Fire Reds caused complete havoc.

    Model: Nike Air Jordan 4 Retro ‘Mars Blackmon’
    Release Date: 7/22/2005
    Product Code: 308497-162
    Colour Code: White/Fire Red/Black

    ]]>     http://news.yorgonestoridis.com/online-business/air-jordan-4-retro-%e2%80%98mars-blackmon%e2%80%99-at-global-now/feed/ 0     Hensu Aluminium and Glass SWD http://news.yorgonestoridis.com/online-business/hensu-aluminium-and-glass-swd/ http://news.yorgonestoridis.com/online-business/hensu-aluminium-and-glass-swd/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 10:26:12 +0000 Lalakoi http://lalakoipublishing.com/?p=7986

    Hensu Aluminium and Glass SWD

    If you need aluminium windows, doors and other aluminium products for the building industry contact Hensu Aluminium & Glass – SWD. We specialize in designing, manufacturing and installing!

    Hensu Aluminium and Glass - SWD

    Hensu Aluminium and Glass – SWD in George, Southern Cape

    Hensu Aluminium and Glass – SWD in George specialize in designing, manufacturing and installing a variety of aluminium windows, doors and other aluminium products for the building industry. We are committed to quality products, expert craftsmanship and excellent service. Being located in George Hensu Aluminium service the Southern Cape and Klein Karoo.

    Aluminium Window Frames, Door Frames and Frame-less Balustrades in George

    Hensu Aluminium and Glass - SWD
    For quality aluminium and glass frames, windows and doors contact Hensu Aluminium & Glass – SWD in George.

    Hensu Aluminium and Glass offers a wide selection including the following

    •  WindowsShop
    • Fronts
    • Palace Sliding Doors
    • Vista Fold Folding Sliding Doors
    • Frameless Balustrades
    • Frameless Showers
    • Framed Showers

    Hensu Aluminium and Glass - SWD
    We have standard designs and sizes but will also custom make to your specifications. They not only manufacture but install their products with pride.

    Skylight Installation in the Garden Route

    If you are looking for a skylight company in the Garden Route contact Hensu Aluminium and Glass. No job is too big or too small. Both residential and commercial installation is done.

    ]]>     http://news.yorgonestoridis.com/online-business/hensu-aluminium-and-glass-swd/feed/ 0     Nike Air Trainer Classic SC Low ‘Wolf Grey’ @ Global!!! http://news.yorgonestoridis.com/online-business/nike-air-trainer-classic-sc-low-%e2%80%98wolf-grey%e2%80%99-global/ http://news.yorgonestoridis.com/online-business/nike-air-trainer-classic-sc-low-%e2%80%98wolf-grey%e2%80%99-global/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 10:25:39 +0000 Junayd http://globalsportsus.com/?p=46531

    It’s been nearly a decade since Nike last gave us the Air Trainer SC in a lowtop form, and given the response that model and its sequel enjoyed over the past few years, this newer introduction is all but guaranteed a strong following. The Nike Air Trainer Classic gives us a bit of that classic ‘seatbelted’ SC look in a bold mix of Wolf Grey nubuck, silver/grey and Neptune Blue.

    Model: Nike Air Trainer Classic SC Low ‘Wolf Grey’
    Release Date: 23/11/11
    Product Code: 488059-010
    Colour Code: Wolf Grey/Neptune Blue

    ]]>     http://news.yorgonestoridis.com/online-business/nike-air-trainer-classic-sc-low-%e2%80%98wolf-grey%e2%80%99-global/feed/ 0     Bird Sanctuary Websites http://news.yorgonestoridis.com/online-business/bird-sanctuary-websites/ http://news.yorgonestoridis.com/online-business/bird-sanctuary-websites/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 10:14:07 +0000 Bianca Gubalke http://biancagubalke.com/?p=8232

    Bird Sanctuary Websites

    If bird sanctuaries offer us tickets into the glorious theatre of Nature, Bird Sanctuary Websites are our virtual GPS.

    Bird Sanctuary Websites designed by Bianca Gubalke South Africa

    Bird Sanctuary Websites

    Bird sanctuary websites offer online bird watchers information and insight about the bird life found in a specific bird park or area, opening times, entry fees, special events and perhaps membership possibilities etc, but what everyone is probably most interested in are pictures and images of birds, our favourite feathered friends.

    Personal Birding Website

    If you have a garden that’s frequented by many different birds and you love to watch and photograph them, you may consider publishing your personal birding website or blog to share your thoughts, impressions, photos, perhaps sketches and whatever you want to include, with fellow birding afficinados. You may even invite other bird watchers to join you to gain a broader and even more interesting spectrum!

    Your personal bird lover website could be designed in such an attractive way that it captures the interest of like-minded bird watchers from other parts of the country if not the world! The world of birds is truly without limits!

    Bird Sanctuary - Bianca Gubalke Web Design Showcase 2012

    The Internet offers us such wonderful and affordable possibilities for individual expression today where we can create something that can be enjoyed for generations to come.

    Why not pass on the wonder, joy and privilege of living in our magic world today?!

     

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    Weldon Optical

    weldon optical george

    Weldon Optical George

    Optometrists George, Garden Route, use the Most Advanced Technological

    Weldon Optical in George in the Garden Route has been specializing in eye care over the past 50 years. They are staffed by four well qualified and experienced optometrists, optical dispensers, optical mechanics and a friendly well informed frontline staff. The optometrists are trained to use the most advanced technological and diagnostic equipment.

    weldon optical george

    Eye Tests at Weldon Optical in George in the Southern Cape

    The services offered by the optometrists at Weldon Optical in George in the Southern Cape include: Free Drivers Vision Screening, Eye Tests and Exams as well as Visual Field Tests. They also have a Virtual Optical Dispenser, making choosing the correct frame for you easy! They also handle the fitting of ocular prosthesis.

    weldon optical george

    Sunglasses, Lenses and Other Products from Weldon Optical in the Garden Route

    Products available from Weldon Optical in the Garden Route include

    • Sunglasses : They stock a wide range of sunglasses in all shapes and styles such as Oakley, Ray Ban, Soviet, Vogue, Addidas, Lacoste, Calvin Klein and many more
    • Spectacle Frames and Lenses to suit every need. Most prescription lenses can fitted on the same day
    • Contact Lenses and contact lens products
    • Low Vision Aids – from magnifiers to the most advanced electronic equipment are available
    • Anti –Reflection Coating: Add Anti-Reflection Coatings to your lenses for clearer vision.

     

    weldon optical george

    Weldon Optical is Contracted in to all Medical Aids

    Weldon Optical is contracted in to all Medical Aids and will gladly submit your account electronically to them. They also offer discount to people paying cash or you can buy and pay for all your eye care needs and accessories by using one of your existing Edcon Cards.

     

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    SuperMoon 2012 Image

    The edited version of the SuperMoon 2012 from Vouliagmeni.

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    ]]>     http://news.yorgonestoridis.com/news/supermoon-2012-image/feed/ 0     Full Moon over Noordhoek Beach http://news.yorgonestoridis.com/online-business/full-moon-over-noordhoek-beach/ http://news.yorgonestoridis.com/online-business/full-moon-over-noordhoek-beach/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 07:59:07 +0000 Bianca Gubalke http://biancagubalke.com/?p=8224

    Full Moon over Noordhoek Beach

    While we are used to a beautiful Full Moon over Noordhoek Beach – I was amazed at the ‘super moon’ photos posted officially on BBC and elsewhere on 6 and 7 May 2012 … pictures that seemed incredulous and left me wondering. I did take some photos as well and thought the moon was definitely more brilliant than usual… but nothing like I had expected, at least not on our side of the… globe and mountain.

    Full Moon over Noordhoek Beach by Bianca Gubalke Photography

    Full Moon over Noordhoek Beach

    Well, meanwhile I know most if not all of those pictures were illusions… and that we can all achieve with some good original photo material and a little bit of Photoshop! Ha!

    Full Moon over Noordhoek Beach by Bianca Gubalke Photography

    What you see here is definitely the full moon I photographed in that night – around 11: 45 pm – and it stood like that in the pitchblack sky. No halo, no softness – like cut out.

    And this was Noordhoek Beach in the very early morning where the full moon was hardly visible – now it is!I mean it was !

    The fact is, I photographed the ‘real thing’ on 24 July 2010 and wrote about it HERE. And there was no manipulation involved whatsoever – it was huge, red and definitely super and extraordinary in many ways!

    Bianca Gubalke Web Design Showcase 2012

     

     

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