76 Digital Wordpress Themes

Date: 25th October 2007 at 8:01 pm | Filed under: development, themes, wordpress | Author: Sam Burdge

The 76 Digital WordPress theme-set by 76 Creative is now available for download. The 76 Digital theme comes in four colour schemes: blue, green, orange and pink. It features a Flash header, which displays your blog title and tagline. It is also set up to work with many useful plugins.

76 Digital Blue - Screen76 Digital Green - Screen76 Digital Orange - Screen76 Digital Pink - Screen

Please read the readme file before installing the themes.

FEATURES:

  1. Comes in four colour schemes.
  2. Flash header displaying blog title and tagline.
  3. Compatible with many plugins, as listed below...

INSTRUCTIONS:

  1. Choose the colour scheme you want.
  2. Upload the theme to your wp-conent/themes folder.
  3. Select the them from the 'Presentation' page in your WordPress.

PLUGINS:

The theme is set up to work with the following plugins if they are installed:

  1. Dagon Design Sitemap Generator — Create a sitemap page.
  2. Get Recent Comments — Display recent comments in the sidebar.
  3. Jerome's Keywords — Attach tags to posts and have them display in your sidebar.
  4. Theme Switcher — Switch between the different themes you have installed.
  5. WP Navigation Tool (NAVT) — Create custom links for the tabbed navigation across the top of the page. Just create a group called 'tabs', then add links to it. This plugin is highly recommended!!

FLASH HEADER:

For all you WordPress wannabes out there wondering how the Flash header thing is done, stay tuned, as I will be posting tutorials about WordPress and Flash on my site in the near future, along with lots of other Flash based widgets and plugins for WP.

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3 Responses to “76 Digital Wordpress Themes”

  • Comment by Graham
    Date: May 4th, 2008 at 9:20 am

    Hello Sam ! Great site and content !!! I’m very impressed in the page nav with the + & - action to bring the subpages in view . Is this a plugin or something you’ve developed ?

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: May 4th, 2008 at 10:56 am

    Hi Graham
    Glad you like it!! The sliding nav is something I developed using jquery. I will release a theme that features it some time soon…more info here
    Sam

  • Comment by Nuno
    Date: July 11th, 2008 at 9:57 am

    Hello

    I like very much you theme (all features), the seach results shows thumbmais it´s fantastic. I intent use it, but unfortunately I’m inesperiente future blogger and I can´t put the theme work, I unable to customize the sidebar, indeed can upload a photo.
    If you put theme work without request knowledge HTML was really wonderful.

    A hug

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wordpress monthly navigation

Date: 25th October 2007 at 4:11 pm | Filed under: development, scripts, wordpress | Author: Sam Burdge

This article explains how to create a monthly navigation system for one or more categories in wordpress, or on the home page itself. By this I mean that on the first page it would display only posts from the current month. The next and previous page links would be replaced by next and previous month links.

To display the monthly content it is first necessary to create a custom query. This should be done before the loop begins. Here is an example of the custom query php:
Read on…

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  • Comment by hanslukas
    Date: May 12th, 2008 at 11:09 pm

    hi…
    it’s just what i was searching…

    I tried to use your solution pasting it on mi index.php, but don’t work…
    where my error please?

    Sorry for my english,I thank you
    regards

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wordpress post navigation hacks

Date: 24th October 2007 at 2:34 pm | Filed under: development, scripts, wordpress | Author: Sam Burdge

This article covers using the global parameter $paged and the query $wp_query->max_num_pages; to create custom navigation links for previous and next posts. For some reason wordpress treats posts in the past as "next" and posts in the future as "previous" as explained in this exerpt from the WordPress website:
Read on…

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  • Comment by gus
    Date: October 30th, 2008 at 1:18 pm

    Thanks for this interesting technique. I finally realized, though, that this works only for “paged” templates, like the index and categories and tag pages. Can you suggest a technique to use on single-post templates?

    I understand that some of this functionality is built in to the next_post_link and previous_post_link tags already, but it is still difficult to make one of them go away if you are using them with nested divs or other complicated bits of CSS — because you don’t have direct access to the anchor tag. Any suggestions for crafting an equivalent “if” statement that will make the previous or next link not show when not needed on a single-post page?

    Also, how much of a performance hit will the $wp_query call cause in the above code?

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: October 30th, 2008 at 11:34 pm

    Hi Gus

    With the next_post_link / previous_post_link functions you should use the ‘format’ parameter to keep your divs from displaying when the link is not needed. For example:


    <div id="post_nav">
    < ?php next_post_link('%link', 'Next Post'); ?>
    </div>

    will still display the div. While:


    < ?php
    $post_link_format='<div id="post_nav">%link</div>’;
    next_post_link($post_link_format, ‘Next Post’); ?>

    would only show the div when the link is needed.

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cookies and arrays in php

Date: 20th October 2007 at 1:27 am | Filed under: development, scripts | Author: Sam Burdge

How to store and retreive arrays using cookies with php:

The first step is to turn the array into a string with each array value seperated by a delimiter. I usually choose an unusual delimiter character such as a vertical bar, as the array values are more likely to contain characters such as comma or slashes. Example:
Read on…

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  • Comment by c-received
    Date: November 6th, 2007 at 9:54 pm

    Blend your own recipe….

    $a = array(’bg’=>’red’,'tx’=>’blue’,'lk’=>’green’);
    print_r($a);

    $b = implode(”|”,array(’red’,'blue’,'green’));
    print_r($b);

    $c = explode(”|”,$b);
    print_r($c);

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WP Digi Clock Plugin (0.1BETA)

Date: 19th October 2007 at 10:48 pm | Filed under: development, flash, plugins, wordpress | Author: Sam Burdge

A NEW VERSION OF THE PLUGIN HAS BEEN RELEASED!! Please follow this link: WP Digi Clock Version 1.0

[wp_digi_clock]This easy to use plugin will embed a flash digital clock into your wordpress blog, either in a post or page, or within your blog's template (in the sidebar / header / footer etc.). The background and font colours are managed via the options menu. The clock displays the time as set on the user's local machine. Server time and timezone offsets will be a feature of version 1 when it is released. For now please try it out and let me know of any issues etc. by commenting on this page.

Installation:

  1. Download the plugin file here: Follow the link at the top of this page to get the new version!!
  2. Upload the wp-digi-clock folder to your wp-content/plugins folder
  3. Activate the plugin from the plugins page
  4. Go to Options -> WP Digi Clock to choose your colour scheme

Usage:

To embed in a post or page:

type in [ wp_digi_clock ] (removing the spaces) anywhere in a post or page.

to embed in your page template (header, footer, sidebar):

use the function wp_digital_clock() for example:

 
<li>
<h2>TIME</h2>
</li>
<li><?php wp_digital_clock(); ?></li>
 

7 Responses to “WP Digi Clock Plugin (0.1BETA)”

  • Comment by chris
    Date: November 2nd, 2007 at 11:16 pm

    when trying to change the color, what numbers correspond with what color? is there any info on this?

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: November 2nd, 2007 at 11:23 pm

    Hi, as this is the very first release I haven’t had a chance to integrate the colour picker. Basically it works by hex codes e.g: #ffffff = white, #000000 = black. For a full list of colour codes you can visit: webmonkey

  • Comment by Hien
    Date: November 3rd, 2007 at 5:14 am

    Hi Sam:

    Just tried out you Digi Clock plugin (0.1BETA). Its a snap to use. I know that you probably have plans for other features so I won’t make any unreasonably unbearable requests. There is only one thing I’d like to bring to light… non-military time. The plugin, works great with my site color scheme right out of the box. I didn’t even have to change a thing. Thanks!

  • Comment by Shawn
    Date: November 5th, 2007 at 8:30 pm

    Hi Sam.. looks good.
    I would love, however, a “countdown” feature…
    allowing us to put a clock widget on the sidebar with a configurable title to provide countdown clocks .. ie.. “Time until election day”, “Time until vacation”, etc

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: November 5th, 2007 at 9:01 pm

    Hi Shawn, the closest thing I could find is this plugin: Countdown

  • Comment by Afzal Javed
    Date: November 6th, 2007 at 7:32 pm

    I still don’t know how to change the back ground color. Please let me know in which line of plugin-code should I change the code.

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: November 6th, 2007 at 9:42 pm

    Hi Afzal,
    In the options menu in wordpress you should see the tab for WP Digi Clock. Go to the WP Digi Clock options page and enter hex color codes for the background and text colours. If you dont see the colours change at first, try emptying your browser’s cache. Hope this helps…

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