Creating a custom theme options page is very simple if you follow these steps. In this lesson we will create a very basic options page. Step 1: Init the options page. In your functions.php file add this line to the top: require_once ( get_template_directory() . '/theme-options.php' ); Step 2: Create[...]
Posts Tagged ‘programming’
January 22nd, 2011 - 4:02 PM § in Lessons
Recaptcha
Recaptcha is a clever way to keep the SPAM bots at bay. It forces the visitor to type in a couple of random words before the visitor can submit a POST to your site. Recaptcha accomplishes a secondary task, it digitizes books. The words you see are scanned from books, and by using humans to [...][...]
January 18th, 2011 - 4:06 PM § in Web
New HTML5 logo
W3C announced new HTML5 logo AND STICKERS. Yup thats right, stickers. Go to http://www.w3.org/html/logo/#downloads and get your free stickers. Oh, and use HTML5.[...]
January 16th, 2011 - 4:16 PM § in Lessons
Fancy fonts in CSS
The web has all of us trained on the idea of “web safe” fonts. And as much as I cringe at the thought days when people collected thousands of true type or postscript fonts, our current avoidance of fonts is a bit too drastic. Designers are now trained to use only Arial, Verdana, Helvetic[...]
January 13th, 2011 - 11:46 AM § in Web
Chrome to drop H.264
WebM is a video codec developed by On2 then acquired by Google and made opensource. It has been gaining support due to the questionable licensing agreement of H.264. Although H.264 decoding will remain free as long as it is distributed freely, browser makers would have to pay some licensing fee. Goo[...]
January 4th, 2011 - 11:06 PM § in Lessons
Building a Roku Channel – Part 2
Last week, I started with a quick explanation of how to get your computer and roku box ready to build and deploy your first channel. Now let’s get down to lightly customizing some example roku code. In Part 1 you set up an account on roku.com and agreed to the Developer’s Agreement. Now [...]
December 23rd, 2010 - 5:21 PM § in Lessons
Simple but complete Boxee App
One of the best things about Boxee is how simple it is to build a Boxee app. In this post, I’m going to show you how to do that with a single XML file. Don’t dismiss this method of building a Boxee app, as some of the bigger content providers have opted for this over [...][...]
December 13th, 2010 - 11:14 PM § in Lessons
Building a Roku Channel – Part 1
Feel like creating your own channel on the roku video player? It’s not hard! You’ll just need a decent familiarity with editing text files and possibly some comfort with unix. Or discomfort, but as long as you know what I’m talking about, keep reading! I’m personally very com[...]
December 13th, 2010 - 1:53 AM § in Lessons
Building a Boxee App – Part 1
In this series we’ll take a look at creating a Boxee app. At the end of the series, I’ll post an archive for you to use as the starting point of a Boxee application. Boxee is an excellent OpenSource settop box platform. The history of Boxee is an interesting one, rising from XBMC which t[...]
December 13th, 2010 - 1:15 AM § in Hacking
Boxee dev
Trying my hand at Boxee app development. It’s fun but the documentation is more of a discovery. So many questions left unanswered. Here are the questions that took some exploring: Question: Why can’t I get the App Title to show? Answer: If the thumbnail URL is missing or incorrect, the t[...]