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AppleGazette WordPress Theme

In the following weeks we’re releasing WordPress themes based on old designs of our Splashpress Media network sites. Today, it’s AppleGazette, which recently got a facelift.

The AppleGazette Theme is a black, white, and blue two-column theme and has an options page that lets you enter ad codes, RSS subscription links, and social media URLs in the banner and sidebar areas. There’s a custom menu area at the at the top and bottom of the page, and of course a widget area at the right. It’s compatible up to WordPress 3.1. View Demo »

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WordPress Tip: Enable excerpts for static pages

We’re working on a site that lists the children of a static page and wanted to display descriptions for each one. Doing a custom WP_Query is pretty straightforward in accessing those subpages, but we don’t want to display the full content via the_content(). Built-in excerpts via the_excerpt() will suffice.

Problem is, WordPress doesn’t display the excerpt metabox for pages, unlike posts. This can be solved by adding the following code to your functions.php:

[php]function businesslogs_add_excerpt_box() {
add_meta_box(‘postexcerpt’, __(‘Excerpt’), ‘post_excerpt_meta_box’, ‘page’, ‘normal’, ‘core’);
}
add_action( ‘admin_menu’, ‘businesslogs_add_excerpt_box’ );[/php]

(Remember that it’s always a good idea to prefix your custom functions with a unique string.) Now go to the Page editor screen, pull down the Screen Options panel, and check Excerpt. Et voila!

Geeks are Sexy gets even sexier

We recently helped Geeks Are Sexy splash on a fresh coat of paint on its website. There are a few new features like the featured entries at the top, while some elements were retained in the redesign, still in their familiar spots.

Behold the new Geeks Are Sexy!

Genesis Tip: Change Image Size on Attachment Pages

Genesis has a bunch of custom filters and hooks for manipulating the layout and content of your custom WordPress site, but sometimes finding the right one isn’t so easy to do. In this case, I was trying to change the default image size on attachment pages.

Turns out the answer lies not in poking around the Genesis code but WordPress itself. The prepend_attachment function has a filter that will let you modify how the attachment image—including its wrapper paragraph—is displayed. So all you have to do is add a filter that modifies the image size, like so:

add_filter('prepend_attachment', 'ag_prepend_attachment');
function ag_prepend_attachment($p) {
    return '<p class="attachment">'.wp_get_attachment_link(0, 'large', false).'</p>';
}

Drop this in your functions.php file and you’re set. Since this is a WordPress filter, this tip should also apply to other WordPress themes.

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