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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