We've all put so much work into our blogs, and I'm sure you'd hate to see all that hard work just disappear. Unfortunately, there are some people who would get rid of all that, either because they think it would be fun, or because they want to spam your site to push some terrible product that they wouldn't be able to advertise any other way.
Google Analytics is a great tool for checking and analyzing website traffic. But at times it can be a pain to go through your theme, and find just the right place to put the tracking code. There are plugins that can do this, but they aren't really necessary to do this. Thanks to the magic of WordPress hooks, you don't need to worry!
In the previous post at FWebDe, we started creating a portfolio page for a WordPress blog, using the WordPress Links Manager. If you haven't already, you can go and read the first part of this tutorial.
Today, we will be going through the portfolio we created, and styling it with some CSS, and adding some small animation jQuery.
There are many different ways of displaying a portfolio in a WordPress site. These often involve special portfolio themes, plugins, or tricks with post categories. When I searched Google for tutorials on creating a portfolio in WordPress, I was not satisfied with the results. All I got were lists of WordPress themes that I'd have to buy to make a portfolio page.
So, I decided to figure out my own way to do this, without relying on special themes or plugins. Instead, we will use a feature built right into WordPress: the Links Manager.
The WordPress Links Manager is usually used for displaying a blogroll, but it can also be used for other types of links, such as links to past work. It makes sense, because a web design portfolio would include a bunch of links.
To see what we will be making, here is an example.
In the first part of this series, we will be creating the basic functionality of our portfolio page. In the next part, we will be styling it to make it look nice, and adding a bit of jQuery animation to it.
I was bored one day, so I just decided to put together a new WordPress theme. After about a week of mostly testing stuff out, I've decided to release it for free.
SnapBlog is a simple and clean WordPress theme, perfect for personal blogs. There is no real reason for the name SnapBlog, but it's the best that I could think of.
This is also my first attempt at creating an options page for a WordPress theme, so there are a few simple settings to customize certain aspects of this theme.
Here is a list of some of the features included in this theme: