Comments on: Useful WordPress Functionality

By: Bill Addison

Bill Addison — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:36:32 +0000

Here’s a dynamic version I came up with for a site I worked on:

It pulls posts from any category that exactly matches the current page’s name.

Cheers!

By: Hummy

Hummy — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:24:10 +0000

Handy tip, thanks!

By: fajarfaqih

fajarfaqih — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:42:47 +0000

i found you from smashingmagazine, and, wow !! very excited !!!! thanks Matt. It`s very useful

By: Matt @ DVQ

Matt @ DVQ — Thu, 21 May 2009 04:33:39 +0000

Thanks for this.

Quick question, how do you make all the boxes the same size on http://www.45royale.com/all/articles/

Thanks.

By: Kevin Leary

Kevin Leary — Wed, 13 May 2009 01:37:28 +0000

Very helpful, thanks for this one Matt. One thing I find myself using more and more are WordPress Custom Fields. They allow clients to control elements outside the realm of the WYSIWYG area. This is also very handy for those situations when you choose not to hand over full WYSIWYG control.

Thanks for the great article, keep the WordPress CMS stuff flowing!

By: Jon Malone

Jon Malone — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:41:35 +0000

This was a really interesting read. I have been working with WordPress for the last couple of months and I wanted to do something very similar on the front page of my website, But I ended up just using the archive pages as my pages to display from each category.. I’m going to go back through my site right now and use your codes.

Thanks man.

By: Dario Gutierrez

Dario Gutierrez — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:33:27 +0000

Thanks for sharing dude!!! I like very much your blog design. Best regards from Mexico.

By: eddie yang

eddie yang — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:33:39 +0000

I’ve been found the same problem like you. And I also look up the answer on the internet and wordpress Docs.
Finally I use codes like below to solve the problem:

have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>

By: Matt Downey

Matt Downey — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:45:30 +0000

Thanks for the comment Nissa, hopefully this response will help.

The header is controlled with a mixture of custom PHP variables and WordPress code. If you have created a page in your admin section (say “work” for isntance), highlighting that page in the navigation is as easy as writing:

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href="/work/">Work

The (is_page('work')) bit is a WordPress call and the $thisPage=="work" part is a custom PHP variable that’s used at the top of the page to ensure the correct placement.

Does that make sense? Hopefully that helps, but let me know if you need further instruction.

By: Nissa

Nissa — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:36:03 +0000

How do you get your header to display different content for each page selected? I noticed when I click Home, About, Work, etc. your content changes in the sub-header. Is that part of Wordpress or just a static thing built into your site’s XHTML code?