Comments on: 8 Top Tips for Wordpress Theme development

By: 250 Wordpress Tutorials

250 Wordpress Tutorials — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:36:16 +0000

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By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:41:31 +0000

Thanks on the tip for targeting the first post. My question is, how would you get a certain post to show at the top of ALL pages in a particular category? Not just the first page, but every page thereafter? Basically I have a small graphic that goes at the top of the page ( where the posts are listed ) thats shows depending on which category you are in. So on every page, the first post would be the post with the category graphic, followed by the normal posts for that category. Appreciate any insight you could lend! THanks

By: jmwhittaker

jmwhittaker — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:16:47 +0000

Hi Adam, yes you could do exactly that. What you would need is to then inside the code for the first post only is to output either a excerpt or trim the post using the more tag inside the actual post. Failing that you can get a plugin called the excerpt reloaded. This allows fine control over what is and isn't displayed from your post. Have fun.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:27:37 +0000

“Target the first post in a list” – I’ve only been playing with wordpress themes today – and I’m amazed how much I could get done quickly – the only issue I’ve come up against might be answered by this para in your document. However I’m struggling to make the link. I want to extract the first few sentences from the most recent post, with a link to its full page. Would following this be the right track?

By: Andy Potanin

Andy Potanin — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:59:42 +0000

Awesome list, thanks.

By: jmwhittaker

jmwhittaker — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:40:50 +0000

If your planning to work from scratch on a Wordpress theme then you might be interested in WP Framework.

WP Framework is a blank WordPress theme framework, which aims to cut down on your theme development time. It gives you a solid theme foundation to build your project on top of so you can focus on project-specific features right from the git-go.