Author Archive for Nathan Rice

Nathan is a blogger and freelance web designer, specializing in WordPress theme development. He runs his own blog at NathanRice.net ranging in topics from web design, to WordPress tips, and is a contributer at Performancing, The Blog Herald, and WordPressThemes.com.

WordPress: Dynamic Sub-Page Navigation

July 26, 2007 | Filed Under Blog Design, Features, Guides and Tutorials | 10 Comments

The more and more I study the WordPress architecture, the more and more convinced I become that WordPress is a great choice for use as a feature rich Content Management System (CMS). Basically, WordPress can be used, not only as a blog platform, but as software to manage the content of any website, with […]

Browser Specific Style for your WordPress Theme

July 12, 2007 | Filed Under Blog Design, Features, Guides and Tutorials | 4 Comments

Have you ever been developing a WordPress theme, making it look all pretty, cleaning up your code, and getting all the loose ends tied up … then, you fire up your test browsers and notice that things don’t look quite as good as you thought they did? If you’re like me, you use FireFox, […]

Don’t Show Me the Same List Twice

July 6, 2007 | Filed Under Blog Design, Features, Guides and Tutorials | 7 Comments

If you’re like the thousands of other bloggers out there, when you first started your blog, you went to the theme viewer or did a google search for free WordPress themes and found yourself something that you liked. Personally, I’m not a fan of themes that display the seemingly endless list of full articles […]

Query_Posts and Your Homepage Design: Part 2

June 29, 2007 | Filed Under Blog Design, Features, Guides and Tutorials | Leave a Comment

Last week, I went through the process of adding the content of a single WordPress “page” to your homepage. But there would be no reason to do that with WordPress’s new ability to make any “page” your homepage … unless … you wanted both the content from a single “page”, as well as the […]

Query_Posts and Your Homepage Design

June 21, 2007 | Filed Under Blog Design, Features, Guides and Tutorials | 9 Comments

WordPress has a fantastic little loop qualifier. I’ve written on it for the last 2 weeks, and this week I want to go a little deeper, moving more toward the direction of using WordPress as a real content management system using the built in page feature that WordPress added a while back.
Although WP also […]

Creating a Link Blog Within Your Blog

June 7, 2007 | Filed Under Blog Design, Features, Guides and Tutorials | 6 Comments

Last week, I introduced the query_posts loop qualifier, and this week I’m going to give you a practical use of the tag. For an example of what we are going for, take a look at Veerle Pieters’ blog.
Notice toward the bottom of the page, you’ll see a section called “Approved”. This is a […]

A WordPress Developer’s Best Friend

May 31, 2007 | Filed Under Blog Design, Features, Guides and Tutorials | 15 Comments

Have you ever wondered how some WordPress blogs have all those little sections of content? You know, one list that has the 5 most recent stories in a specific category. Another section has a “aside” story. Yet another list called “news” that has a list of stories, but they never get to […]

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Do You Tag Yourself?
May 16, 2008 | By Lorelle VanFossen | 2 Comments

Do you tag yourself? Honestly? No, this is not a game.
With everyone back on the tag versus categories versus tags bandwagon, have you checked to make sure you are tagging yourself?
Inside of Lorelle on WordPress is the tag attribute that turns “Lorelle on WordPress” into a tag.
<a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/" title="Lorelle on WordPress" rel="tag">Lorelle on WordPress</a>
When […]

A BIG Reason to Read a Pet’s Blog
May 16, 2008 | By Andrew G.R. | Leave a Comment

I’ve often taken a snarky approach when it comes to people who set up blogs for their pets. I barely want to read about humans’ mundane lives, let alone issues with litter and pooper scoopers. However, there might be a new reason to subscribe to Lucky, Fido or Buddy’s blog.
Animals’ ability to prognosticate […]

Yahoo Nabs Safari Plugin Inquisitor
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

Inquisitor is a cool plugin for Safari, and now Yahoo owns it. The developer, David Watanabe, won’t be joining Yahoo, but will continue the development.
I look forward to assisting Yahoo! in refining and extending the Inquisitor user experience beyond where it is today. I truly believe that Inquisitor and its users can only benefit, both […]

YouTube Gives You Insight
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | 1 Comment

Now you can get some more statistics for your YouTube videos, with the recently launched Insight tool, available in your YouTube account (under Manage my Videos, which is probably temporary). The new stats feature is described like this by Tracy Chan, YouTube product manager:
For example, uploaders can see how often their videos are viewed in […]

Google the New Number 1 in the US
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

I thought they were already, but obviously not so. Google has been the leading search engine, but overall Yahoo is the most popular web site according to ComScore’s rankings. No more though, according to an AP report:
According to comScore, Google’s unique U.S. audience in April was 141.1 million, an 18 percent increase from the same […]

Blogging from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

Stephanie Stockman is a NASA contractor working at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which is cool by itself. What’s even cooler is that she’s blogging it, talking about rocketships in voice and text, as well as posting photos, something every space nerd should follow for sure. Her blog is Geosteph, which incidentally is her Twitter […]

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