Have you ever found that the WordPress theme you are using offers a ton of Widgets to use? This can create a real pain in the tail end when you are trying to add or remove widgets from select sidebar widget areas. Consider the following: As you can see, there are a number of Widget Areas here, and on many displays, several of these can appear below the fold. Add a few widgets to each section and it really gets crazy… and very hard to manage. Now, with a little help from jQuery, we can change this to be an easier to use interface. See the same page, but with the new jQuery: Now, you have a...

To set up an email account on your iPad or iPhone with a cPanel hosted email account, try using the following steps: Click on Mail in your Settings app Select Other Add Main Account Name: Your Name email: your@email.com ( full email address ) pass: your password Description: Add your description Next Choose IMAP or POP ( IMAP will sync emails with your server, so if you delete an email on your iPhone or iPad, it will be deleted from your server as well. POP only downloads the email, so you can set up an option to leave a copy on the server for downloading later, from a desktop for example. ) Under...

When working with themes, sometimes you want users that are less than an Administrator to be able to update theme options. By default, if the user can not “manage_options” (which all Admins can), the user will not be able to update the options. Instead they are greeted with a “Cheatin’ Uh?” page. To avoid the error, you need to grant the user the correct permissions to do this. Side Note: WordPress developers… can we change this error page please? When you hand a site to a client powered by WordPress and they get a page error that says they are Cheating, its not the...

A lot is being made of the mobile web, and for good reason. Depending on where you get the information, mobile web use could well outpace traditional (desktop) web use very soon. It is certainly an area of rapid growth in website development. With such rapid growth, there are a number of issues that developers must overcome. With the mobile web being still relatively “new”, developers are still trying to figure out the best ways to account for getting the content to the user in the best way. With a more compact viewing area (in most cases), the lack of a mouse due to touch input, and a...

Introducing The RW Meta Box Class plugin for WordPress This plugin uses the Meta Box class as created by Rilwis and adds the capabilities to WordPress as a plugin. UPDATE: The author of this script has released this as an updated WordPress plugin. I highly recommend you use this version of the plugin: Meta Box on WordPress.org What is the Meta Box Class? Rilwis created a great bit of code that allows developers to quickly and easily add custom meta boxes for all post types (pages, posts, custom). The way Rilwis set this up, you simply copy his code to your theme’s functions.php file and then set...