testing out the new instagram embed feature:
so the problem with the embeds is that it’s not clean for responsive. i tried to add the same sorta code that i use for youtube videos, but it doesn’t seem to do the exact trick
andy and matt are once again all stars! video of their medal ceremony below:
* video taken with my nokia lumia 928
so this came about when i was tasked to create a custom metabox for a wordpress site at work. i didn’t want the metabox to appear unless a specific template was chosen — this is so as not to confuse the person in the admin with new options they shouldn’t be messing with.
i found this solution, but it wasn’t quite working in my admin. so i put on my wordpress/php developer cap and dissected it down to the following:
these are the things that i MUST HAVE in order to efficiently work on a responsive web design project
the strange things people search for on Google and stumble on my site…
finally took care of a nagging part of my site… the top slideshow. it wasn’t responsive before and now it is
it’s based off the responsive slider plugin. i had to make a minor change to it so it would show six slides per page load, choosing randomly from the library of slides. by default, it would show x amount of slides, where x is set in the settings > reading section (“Blog pages show at most”)
$slides = new WP_Query( array( 'post_type' => 'slides', 'order' => 'ASC', 'orderby' => 'menu_order' ) );
$slides = new WP_Query( array( 'post_type' => 'slides', 'order' => 'ASC', 'orderby' => 'rand', 'posts_per_page' => 6 ) );
i actually didn’t expect the 'orderby' => 'rand' part to do what it did (choose randomly from the library of slides), but i’m pretty happy with it. this way, i can upload as many slides and not have to worry about ordering them in any special way
'posts_per_page' => 6 is what controls the amount of slides that are shown in the slideshow
yes, i’m aware that this will be killed if i update the plugin…
video of matt doing a baserunning drill.
he had to hit the ball, then two other players on the other team (posted up on first and third base) had to run after and touch the ball. when both “defenders” touched the ball, the baserunner was out and the total bases touched were counted (that’s why you hear “three!”
the $wpdb object is crazy powerful. with it, you can access almost anything in your database
this is extremely helpful when doing plugin development…
recently at work, i was tasked to do this project:
$wpdb was used heavily in this plugin and it works well
i’ve added a new feature to my site: custom post types. you can see the page here — as you can see, it’s all of my sketches i’ve done since last august
functions.php
first add this to allow for featured images (if it’s not already in there):
add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );
This part will register the custom post type to wordpress
add_action( 'init', 'create_sketch' );
function create_sketch() {
$labels = array(
'name' => _x('Sketches', 'post type general name'),
'singular_name' => _x('Sketch', 'post type singular name'),
'add_new' => _x('Add New Sketch', 'Sweet'),
'add_new_item' => __('Add New Sketch'),
'edit_item' => __('Edit Sketch'),
'new_item' => __('New Sketch'),
'view_item' => __('View Sketch'),
'search_items' => __('Search Sketches'),
'not_found' => __('No Sketches found'),
'not_found_in_trash' => __('No Sketches found in Trash'),
'parent_item_colon' => ''
);
$supports = array('title', 'editor', 'revisions', 'thumbnail', 'comments');
register_post_type( 'sketches',
array(
'labels' => $labels,
'public' => true,
'supports' => $supports
)
);
}