WebDesign&Such » Wordpress http://webdesignandsuch.com a Beantown Design Production Thu, 17 May 2012 23:40:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 WordPress 3.3 “Sonny” Released Improved User Experience http://webdesignandsuch.com/wordpress-3-3-sonny-released-improved-user-experience/ http://webdesignandsuch.com/wordpress-3-3-sonny-released-improved-user-experience/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:38:46 +0000 mike ilz http://webdesignandsuch.com/?p=3318 WordPress 3.3 “named ‘Sonny’ in honor of the great jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt” has just been released. The most noticeable improvements improve the user experience. New fly out menus save room in the admin. As a developer I’m excited about the new editor API, which makes it easy to create popup pointer-tips to point out to certain things in the admin (help clients find custom features).

The dashboard experience has been improved for iPads and other tablets, which will help people on the move. Other features of the dashboard include a responsive design of some elements, HTML5 doctype, a new dashboard welcome feature and new help tabs. A new drag-and-drop feature has made uploading different types of content a breeze.

This latest release is exciting for developers worldwide, and reminds me how happy I am to be part of the WordPress community.

]]> http://webdesignandsuch.com/wordpress-3-3-sonny-released-improved-user-experience/feed/ 0 How to Link to the Root Directory of a WordPress Theme http://webdesignandsuch.com/link-to-root-directory-wordpress-theme/ http://webdesignandsuch.com/link-to-root-directory-wordpress-theme/#comments Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:00:55 +0000 mike ilz http://webdesignandsuch.com/?p=3305 When coding a WordPress theme you’re obviously going to need to link scripts to your theme files. If you were going to link directly a file it would look something like this:

<script src='http://mydomain.com/wp-content/themes/mytheme/js/slider.js'></script>

Luckily there is a quicker way to link directly to these files. The following PHP snippet links directly to the root of your theme:

<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>

So to link to the same example file as above you would do this:

<script src='<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/js/slider.js'></script>

This is obviously easier, less code, and if you move your WordPress install or change the theme name the link will still be correct.

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