Around the WordPress Community: Design, Thesis Hooks and Filters, Comments, and Design Mistakes
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Mar 17 2010 at 4:21 am | View Comments
Continuing a little with our web design collection of resources and tips from around the WordPress Community, this week we found some great tips on WordPress Theme design for navigation, custom post types, Thesis Theme hooks and filters, comments, and a few reminders on those common pesky design mistakes we all make.
- Tips on Site Navigation for Mom – Devlounge – When it is all boiled down, can your mom – or grandmother or even great grandmother – use your site? Devlounge takes a look at how to improve your site's design navigation keeping everyone in mind, from beginner to experienced web user.
- How to display custom post types on your WordPress blog homepage – WP Recipes – Custom Post Types could be the rage for WordPress Theme designers and developers. WP Recipes shows you the code on how to showcase those custom post types on your WordPress front page.
- The Comprehensive List of Thesis Hooks and Thesis Filters – If you are a fan of the Thesis WordPress Theme, this will be invaluable. A collection of hooks and filters for the Thesis Theme. Bookmark this now.
- Display Separate Counts for Comments, Pingbacks and Trackbacks – Digging into WordPress – We used to fuss over how to separate comments, pings, and trackbacks, and now, this post looks at how to showcase the numbers, the counts, for comments, pingbacks and trackbacks.
- Custom Comments HTML Output – Digging into WordPress – Comments are often ignored in WordPress Themes, the last to be styled. This post digs into how to style and customize the output of WordPress blog comments.
- 11 Common Web Design Mistakes (Blunders) – Hongkiat – While exploring the new features of CSS and HTML, we need to remember that no matter how fancy the code gets, some basic design mistakes can make or break your site. Hongkait's 11 common design mistakes for the web are a good start – and reminder.
- Common Mistakes In Themes – scribu – We all make mistakes when it comes to developing our WordPress Themes and web designs. Scribu looks at a couple of common mistakes made in WordPress Themes that tend to plague us, as well as those checking and monitoring submissions to the WordPress Theme Directory.
