J3 Web Works

WordPress: Display an image from a post or custom field

In my other blog, Pet Turtles And More, I wanted to display one image from the content of my posts and be able to over-ride that image with another, if I so choose, within the WordPress loop . The result I wanted (which is what I got) looks like this: The first image in the post is [...]

Going to WordCamp NYC

I’ve been wanting to go to a WordCamp since I got into blogging…it took a few short years and now I’m finally going. WordCamp is going to be two whole conference days of nothing but WordPress. I like the sound of that… I even know one of the speakers! Sometimes, I work with WordPress all day [...]

Updated blog design

Since I do more Twitter updates and don’t blog here on this website as much as I do for my pet turtles or Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu websites – I decided to update the look of J3WebWorks.com. The blog page now features my latest tweets (Twitter messages) on top of my blog posts. I’m using the javascript Twitter Statuses [...]

The Warx Theme

Presenting my first free theme: Warx. The Warx theme has a two column layout, dropdown pages menu, five widget-ready placement areas (including a page template with widget areas), gravatar support, threaded (nested) comment support, and separated trackbacks & pingbacks. For CMS solutions, it offers five different widget areas, allowing for different presentation and locations of widgets. [...]

WP-Cycle plugin: better than hacking NextGen Smooth

A few weeks after I posted How to make NextGEN Smooth Gallery link to any URL (or fake a flash banner) I discovered the WP-Cycle plugin. It’s a great plugin, much easier to use than hacking NextGen Smooth, and I wish I had found it sooner. It is way simpler for getting each image in [...]

How to make NextGEN Smooth Gallery link to any URL (or fake a flash banner)

The following does not always work. If there are other instances of JS running on the public web page, there is a good chance that it will not work properly. That is the reason why the Smooth Gallery plugin gives the option to use iframes to fix the problem. I couldn’t find any free [...]

I heart WordPress

It’s true, I do. It’s my application of choice for building websites. It’s an open source program with a huge community, offering plenty of themes and plugins to customize the appearance of your site and expand functionality. WordPress is primarily a blogging platform, but is gaining more and more acceptance as a CMS, or [...]

hello

Hello. This is my new website. I’ve made this website to showcase my work. I’ll blog about it and occasionally about other things that don’t exactly fit into the niches of my other blogs. Happy summer!!