I just finished registering for WordCamp Raleigh, happening May 21 & 22. I am looking forward to attending and meeting other WP lovers and developers! If you are interested in attending, get more information at http://wordcampraleigh.com. Hope to see you...

I have worked on a number of designs that call for different styles being applied to sidebar areas. For example, let’s say the color pallet for a website includes a red, white and blue Americana design. The designer may have decided that the sidebar should have blue widget areas and red widget areas. Traditionally, you have had to either know the widget id and add a specific class to that, or even just leave the colors all the same. But what if the design calls for the ability to add a red one in between the blue ones, and that it could be any type of widget? If you know ahead of time what that...

The debate has long raged… Should a Web Designer understand Web Programming? In other words, should the web designer be able to code the website they design? Maybe this is another entry into that long debate, maybe not. But I wanted to weigh in a bit on this. First, let me clarify the side in which I am coming from. You see, I do both web develop and web design. I find pleasure in both, from different vantage points. But for the sake of this article, I am simply a web programmer, providing a small note to the website designers out there. Is it important that you be able to code? From where I sit,...

WordPress theme developers… How clean is your code? Did you know that you can find out very easily? Simply enable the following line within your wp-config.php file, and you will see if your code is clean! define('WP_DEBUG', true); This will display WordPress warnings and notices. I recently did this and found a few issues on my main Framework I use for development. Not that there were a lot of issues, mind you, but here were a couple of the notices my theme had: Notice of Deprecated WordPress function: This notice / warning lets you know that one or more of the functions you are using in your...

WordPress does not, by default, allow sessions. In a recent project, I needed to use sessions. So how do you use sessions in WordPress? Simple. Add the following line to your functions.php file within the open and close php tags, and you can then use sessions as needed. if ( !session_id() ) add_action( 'init', 'session_start'...

I just want to say, WordPress 3.0 is finally...