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WordPress London Post Class

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We created this theme as an extension to our post on the WordPress Post Class function after our talk at the #wpldn meetup group, we have extended the theme with a couple of new layouts, adding the date icon.

As well as the post class functions we added an extra two menus one in the header and one in the footer, these have been styled to match our demo theme, we used some of the code from our extended category posts to set the content choices, we are supplying the demo theme for educational reasons as we do not consider it fully finished.

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Keyboard Navigation for WordPress Posts

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One of the topics on the WordPress Forum asked about adding a snippet of JQuery to a theme, the snippet of code was to navigate the posts using the left and right arrow keys.

We were able to quickly create a child theme and test the code and it works well, we thought we would share the solution and child theme with our readers.

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WordPress Prezi Presentation

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Prezi is an online and offline presentation package that came to our notice while watching the BBC television programme click online.

Before we joined and created our first presentation, we searched the WordPress Plugin directory for a way to embed the presentation in a post, we did not find a plugin that worked as expected, so we will just embed the code, that became our second Prezi!

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Going Mobile with Twenty Eleven

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We have been working on a theme that will render in all browsers, using a custom twenty eleven theme.
Twenty Eleven is fluid and will collapse, the images auto resize as well, we have mixed this with some 1140 grid code, custom category and page colors, so it looks good on a mobile, and hidden the header on small devices, viewing it in a browser and resizing the screen you will see the effect, we want to make this website readable on a small device, mobile friendly and the content fluid.

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Change Category Sort Order

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It is strange that there is no option to reverse the display order of the posts on the category page, when we select a category the list is the same as a blog, in descending order newest to oldest.

That is great for a news or magazine website, but what if we wanted to display a series of our posts in ascending order, for a tutorail with the oldest part one first?

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Changing Background at Night

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We have been looking at changing the body background on a theme based on hour, day, month, or season, in this example we will find out how to change the background in the evening.

We are using a Twenty Ten child theme to do this, so what do we need, we are using two horizontal repeat .png images 1087 wide * 1120 high, one for day and one for the night, if we whanted a different set of images, for any of the other methods we would change the quantities, names and code values to suit.

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WordPress Meet up Group in London

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I have tried one or two meet up groups in London, the first one I found myself in Kings Cross in a smallish room above a bar, it was well attended and the people were very chatty and made me feel at home, all the talk was marketing based and I had a few discussions on different subjects, it was good to see some of the entrepreneurial flair and niche markets being looked at.

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I had a couple of chats about the Internet my website, the traffic numbers, and how could I make any money from it, but it came down to suggestions like writing an eBook, charging for downloads or pay per view posts where you start with a primer, and the visitor pays to read more.

This was not what I had in mind when I created Digital Raindrops, the original concept was for little digital blocks (droplets) of helpful code, a programming resource website that would be easy to manage and benefit the visitors.

The second was a small group of developers, these had a range of beginner to advanced, there were no real WordPress users, some small chat about different CMS systems and a few boasts of how much one could earn from website development, an exchange of business cards, many of these were Moo cards and they sit on a shelf above my computer, these meeting have left me feeling indifferent to meet up groups, they are in the evening and require leaving work sharp to get into town.

I am still a member of the Meet up website and received an email today about a new group just for WordPress and it is in London, United Kingdom, I joined the group and will be attending meetings, the groups owner rather summed it up quite nicely.

As a freelancer, I spend a lot of time isolated in my little development world. Although the internet is a fantastic tool for connecting with others, there’s no doubting the value of face to face contact.

I am hoping that others will join the group and share ideas, talk about projects, and it might be a good place for people interested in WordPress to come along, it would be nice to meet any Local visitors to this website, get some face to face feedback, network a little and have a beer.

Artisteer Home Menu Image

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A question was asked on creating a home image instead of a text link in the menu, using Artisteer Version 3 RC, this should not be hard to do so lets have a look at how we can achieve this.

We will use two new images the height of our menu and 60px wide, this will be different on different themes, we may want an home image a couple of chevrons [>>] or a clickable small logo image, but when we design our menu we must consider this.