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Elliot Jay Stocks (back soon)

check out 'starkers' theme - it's the default theme with all the ids and classes ripped out - a good starting point for building a custom theme

[Drewbies]

Awesome set of resources! Going to set aside some time to go through some of them! Thanks

[immortality]

Thanks for the resources, I find them very useful. I just begin to use Wordpress as a CMS for my projects.

[doublejdesign]

superb list

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WordPress › Is Page or Ancestor « WordPress Plugins

just thought i'd add this - very useful little plugin for when you have a few layers of menus but you want the very top parent to stay highlighted (for instance)

like this

<li<?php
if (is_page_or_ancestor('90'))
{
echo " class=\"current_page_item\"";
}
?>><a href="index.php?page_id=90">WORK</a>
</li>

so when you on any sub pages of 'work' the top menu item 'work' stays highlighted along with the menu item of the actual page you are on too (wordpress kicks out .current_page_item by default)

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oh and this is what i use for custom logins when i build sites for clients Custom WordPress Login Screen | Pro Blog Design

[keebz!]

Lots of great resources here. I almost always suggest Wordpress for on-the-fence clients because it's easy for the developer as well as the client to maintain later on. Here are some tips that maybe some will find useful.

-edit- Argh, I don't have 15 posts yet so I can't post links. I had some great stuff to share too. I'll be back once I hit 15.

[Juice]

Right keebz post up your resources!

[FreeWebHosting7]

Thank you for this wonderful post and all the resource that you gathered for us!

[keebz!]

Sorry, I totally forgot about this thread.

Here are some links I find useful when it comes to building Wordpress sites:

Main Page « WordPress Codex
(The Wordpress codex)

Easily display your last Tweet - Yoast - Tweaking Websites
(Excellent way to manually work your latest tweet into your website without the use of a plugin. There are tons of variables you can change.)

Using shortcodes to show members-only content
(Cool little way to use [members][/members] around content for only the logged in/registered users.)

10 incredibly cool WordPress shortcodes
(More useful shortcodes...)

101 Sociable links for manual insertion in WordPress | stratos.me
(Links to use for Social Media stuff so you can get rid of one extra plugin.)

scriptygoddess » Blog Archive » Wordpress wp_list_comments()
(Create your own structure for the comment system instead of using the default one Wordpress gives you.)

[DKuntz2]

I like that scriptygoddess link

[jamblo]

Has anyone come across a good plugin for permissions?

I need a level of control that'll allow only certain users to post/edit certain pages, i.e. blue-user can only edit blue-page, red-user/red-page, etc.

I've searched the plugins directory but haven't struck gold yet.

[jamblo]

Another request —

Has anyone come across a decent image slideshow plugin? One that allows you to post a gallery in a post/page (and therefore have several iterations of the script displaying on one page)?

I came across this - Photo Galleria Plugin for Wordpress | Graph Paper Press - but couldn't for the life of me get it (or the Wordpress default [gallery ] shortcode) to work - and I don't really want to pay $45 to join the makers' support forum.

[.sleep]

jamblo, try out WordPress › Capability Manager « WordPress Plugins. I used to use Role Manager but I don't think anyone updates it anymore. Capabilities Manager is pretty easy to use. It's only downfall is if you're changing around capabilities of existing users, I think you have to re-apply their user level to make the changes go into effect.

[Timus]

Thought I would spend some time getting my head around WP over Christmas - and this continues to be a very useful thread.

Thanks lads.

[stealthcow]

I havent read through all the posts, but if it hasnt been mentioned, check out PODs: Pods CMS

It's basically an Expression Engine type system for Wordpress, but a lot more intuitive (and free!). In the past week I've managed to put together a system that would have taken me about a month to do usually

[DKuntz2]

interesting, I've added it to my bookmarks.