Jeff Gran

WordPress: Sort Posts by Multiple Fields

Tue July 21, 2009

I was recently creating a star-rating system for a client, and we were sorting the reviews (or “posts”) by the number of stars. The problem that came up was that with a 5 star system, and increments of half-stars, you will necessarily end up with many of the ratings being equal. We wanted [...]

WordPress: Tabbed Sidebar Widgets with jQuery

Wed July 1, 2009

Tabs are a great way to show more information in less space, assuming the initially-hidden tabs are non-essential information. Recently a client asked me to put a few Wordpress widgets into a single tabbed container in the sidebar. Here’s how I did it.

Site Upgrades: Wordpress 2.8!

Fri June 12, 2009

WordPress 2.8 was released on Wednesday, and I’ve upgraded my site.

Wordpress: Using a custom home page

Tue May 19, 2009

WordPress hs a simple checkbox in the Admin->Settings panel that lets you set a certain file to be the “static” home page instead of the default listing of the latest posts.

I’m going to show you how (and why) I did NOT use that feature to create my customized home page.

Site Theme Upgrade

Thu May 14, 2009

I’ve “gone live” with the theme upgrade I’ve been working on. This represents a week’s worth of work or so.

Specialize, they say

Wed May 6, 2009

I’ve been reading a lot about how to make your way in this crazy world of people who make web sites. Several authorities have suggested that, especially when starting out, it’s a good idea to specialize in one particular niche.
I’ve decided to concentrate on WordPress development for several reasons:

WordPress is one of the most popular [...]

WordPress: Custom Links Display

Fri April 24, 2009

I’ve been working with WordPress for a couple of days now, and I’m thoroughly impressed by its elegant design. I’ve always been a fan of modular, extensible, customizable systems, and WordPress does not disappoint. The great thing about the architecture they’ve built is that if one level of control can’t do what you need, there [...]