Hide the header in TwentyTen

Whenever I am developing a plugin or general theme modification for WordPress I tend to use the default theme. TwentyTen is the current default theme and, while I think that it is really nice in production sites, it posses an awkward characteristic when debugging code. The header is huge!

Here is one line of code which allows you to temporarily “hide” the header while developing functionality that displays below it. My screen’s resolution is 1024×768 and this line of code helps me to see changes immediately upon refresh without having to scroll.

body{ position:relative; top: -310px; }

Thickbox for WordPress Gallery

I’m working on a theme project this morning and I needed to enable thickbox on the front-end of the site for a few different image galleries created with the gallery shortcode. Here is the solution that I came up with. I believe it to be the easiest way to accomplish this task with the smallest footprint on a WordPress installation. Please let me know your thoughts in the comments section.

jQuery Peek-a-Boo Effect for Image Galleries

A simple jquery effect for animating the display of hidden meta information for thumbnail images. For best results, this script should be ran from the same directory that WordPress is installed in.

Page Templates for Custom post_types

Here’s a collection of functions that were inspired by this post in the WP Tavern forums. The goal is to activate page templates for a given custom post_type. The following code worked well running 3.0.

In Proximity of

This function really has nothing to do with WordPress other than the fact that I removed it from one of my WordPress plugins. I posted it here in case I need it in the future.

Append a posts taxonomy terms to post class.

The following code snippet will enable your theme to append the slug of every term of a given taxonomy that has been associated to the current post. You will most likely want to change the value of the $taxonomy variable to match a taxonomy registered for the post type you are targeting.

Getting Down and Dirty with WP_Query->set()

I was so stoked when I was reading a blog post on Justin Tadlock’s site about custom post types. He introduced me to a new way of hooking into the WP_Query class and I was so excited that I had to leave a comment. I’ve been writing custom functionality into themes using this method ever since and it has really saved me some time.