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Less Theme: A Blank Theme for WordPress Theme Designers

Zack — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:18:25 +0000

I’ve think about this for a while, and now the first version is ready to go. The Less theme is a blank or a template theme for WordPress theme designers, it supports the latest WordPress, has all common functions a WordPress theme should have. It was designed in simple layout so that you can easily modify it, to make your own themes.

I create this theme, because I want to have a basic template to start with when I create a new theme. By copying this theme and change the name, I don’t need to re-create those must-have files, you know, index.php, single.php, comments.php, etc.

Less theme supports latest version of WordPress, which means it supports threaded (nested) comments, sticky-post and comment pages. A theme options page is added, you can change the header logo and set your own RSS feed(like a Feedburner feed). Trackbacks are separated from comments, it makes the post page looks better.

That’s all for now, I’ll keep updating this theme as it’s the basic of all my new themes. You can use it for your new themes as well, wish this theme helps you too.

Separate Trackbacks from Comments in WordPress 2.9

Zack — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:53:17 +0000

Since version 2.7, WordPress use wp_list_comments() to display comments instead of the old loop. If you only want to show comments without trackbacks, that’s easy to do, just add a parameter:

wp_list_comments('type=comment');

We also need to consider other things, like re-count the comments, list trackbacks and many bloggers prefer to show trackback links only, without excerpts. These are what we are going to do in this tutorial.

1. Separate trackbacks from comments

First of all, let’s separate trackbacks from comments. Open your single.php, find:

comments_template();

Change into:

comments_template('', true);

This change will generate a global array $comments_by_type for later use.

Open comments.php, find:

Below this add:

Find:

Change to:

Below the following

(

sometimes), add:

This part tells WordPress not to show comments heading, if you only have trackbacks.

After that, we will display trackbacks:

2. Style trackbacks

That’s it, trackbacks are separated from comments. Now we want trackbacks to be displayed as a list, we need to add this code to functions.php:

Back to comments.php, find wp_list_comments(‘type=pings’); we just add, and change it to:

wp_list_comments('type=pings&callback=list_pings');

3. Re-count Comments

The last thing to do is to re-count comments, don’t include trackbacks, just add the following code to functions.php:

Comment Navigation Disappeared

I am not sure if this only happen to my theme, I found that after all this modification, my comment navigation code was not working, here is the code:

I didn’t do anything to it. I move this code up to between the

and the , and the comment navigation becomes normal.

[Via: Sivel | QuickOnlineTips | WpBeginner | WpHacks]

Baby’s First Times – Funny Photos Collection

Zack — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:12:51 +0000

My first flirting(big success, it changes my life)

My first kiss

My first car racing

First time to be a model

First time to get drunk

First girl friend, first love

My first hamburger

First time to get caught

First time to be a shepherd

First time to go shopping

First time to be Graffitied

First time to eat rice on my own

First bath

First time to taste meat

First time to be extorted

First heart breaking cry

First time to use a headphone

First time I fail down(Thanks, buddies)

First honey moon trip

My first phone call

First webcam video chat

First time to get shot

First time to dream of her

First time to get overdrafted

First clone of me

First time in bed(she’s given up…)

My first right hook

First time to worry about myself

First time to be rich

First time to argue with Mom

First time to be pictured

First time to be a Spokesman

My first room

My first salon photo

First motocycle riding

First invitation I got

First time to realize I’m a shopaholic

First time to be kidnapped

My first big friend

First time to see a pretty girl

You got better ones? Share in our forum.

Google is Working on TV Set-Top Box

Zack — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:03:06 +0000

A lot of company had tried to bring web content to TV, but no one was really successful. Now we have Google joining this business. Google will partnered with Sony, Intel and Logitech to deliver web content to Android based TV Set-Top boxes. We will see the products in several months.

Read the full article on Gearor.com Gadgets Magazine.

New Digg Coming Soon

Zack — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:52:06 +0000

Jay Adelson, Digg’s CEO, announced a lot of important changes to Digg, including a streamlined submission process, a personalized homepage, an unlimited amount of topic pages, a new commenting system and better curation tools.

The new Digg will be launched in a few weeks, you can test it on New.Digg.com.

Read the full article on Gearor.com Online Gadgets Magazine.

Prevent JQuery From Conflict with Other Libraries

Zack — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:42:42 +0000

JQuery is getting more and more popular, many people are using JQuery in WordPress. The right way to import JQuery to your WordPress is like this:

< ?php wp_enqueue_script(“jquery”); ? >

Rather than using