J3 Web Works

Wordpress comments meta data: Adding a checkbox

Recently at work, there was a need to ask for additional data in the comments section of a WordPress site. A checkbox needed to be added to the comments form asking a question. This sounded like a good use for WordPress comments meta data. There isn’t a lot of information out on the interwebs [...]

WordPress: make posts expire or auto-delete

While working on a website, the client needed the homepage to function differently from other websites and blogs. Rather than having the home page show the last x number of posts or editing the loop through query_posts to only show posts within a certain timeframe, the posts would either need to appear on the homepage until: a [...]

How to display the number of users in a WordPress site

Recently at work I needed to display the number of users registered in a WordPress blog. Searching the web gave me the following PHP and mySQL code to display the number of registered users: <?php $users = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT COUNT(ID) FROM $wpdb->users"); echo $users." registered users."; ?> But we were using the Register Plus plugin with user moderation. Register Plus [...]

WordPress Custom Write Panels & prioritizing what to display

At work, I received a project for a vlog (video blog). Each WordPress blog post would have at most one video (some blog posts might have no video). Also, videos would be hosted either on an online video hosting site (i.e. Youtube, Vimeo..) or self hosted and accessed through a URL to a video ASX [...]

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 [...]