Tag Archives: php

The Texas Link

Latest gig: http://thetexaslink.com/ Neat things in this theme: Serif fonts Cowboy hats Radial gradients Texas!

Dev Notes

As I develop a site or app, I tend to keep notes on what I’m doing and what I need to do next hardcoded into it somewhere. When I complete a task or think of a new one, I manually … Continue reading

The New Movement Theater

The New Movement Theater is an improv and stand-up workshop venue in Austin, TX, run by Chris Trew and Tami Nelson. This is actually the third incarnation of TNM’s site. The first was somebody else’s design and static code. The … Continue reading

Studio8.net

After a couple months of work and a last minute (but much needed) hosting switch, my latest project has been unleashed upon the internet. Say hello to Studio8.net’s brand new, WordPress-powered site: http://www.studio8.net/

WordPress: Excluding Categories on Secondary Front Pages

More precisely, this tutorial covers how to exclude categories on paged front pages, index.php, beyond the first default listing. Excluding certain categories from the front page is a pretty easy task, just use the query_posts() function to remove those categories … Continue reading

WordPress: How to Sort Category Archive Posts by Subcategory

By default, WordPress sorts posts in reverse chronological order, with the most recent post being at the top and the least recent at the bottom. Normally, that’s totally cool, since that’s the way we’ve been accustomed to reading blogs, but … Continue reading

Dino Tweets

Here’s the product of my experimentation with SimplePie, a PHP class for parsing RSS feeds. http://dinotweets.iamnotagoodartist.com/ It’s called “Dino Tweets” and it collects the six most recent, public, English Twitter tweets containing the word “dinosaurs” and displays them next to … Continue reading