Holy crap, I made a boo-boo!

I was just informed about a stupid mistake I made with my CakeShop plugin (formerly called “Simple Cart”). So please, if ANY of you have downloaded those files before today, redownload them NOW. Here’s the reason why…

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Showing Post Titles Within the Category Listing

I had an interesting dilemma over the weekend. Someone sent me a comp to code out (PSD->WordPress), which isn’t anything shocking since I do that a lot. What the dilemma was: in the sidebar, they wanted a category listing. However they wanted only the category listing for the category page you were on. So, say you’re in the “Dogs” category… they wanted the sidebar to have “Dogs” (the current category name)...

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Auto-Create Page associated Widgets

So here’s the idea: I’ve had many clients in the past who wanted to have page-specific widgetized sidebars. Now, I’ve covered this before, but one thing has always gotten me: the fact that you have to write a lot of bloated code to get it to work. It seems like you should be able to pull the post slugs into some kind of array, and have the widgets auto-create themselves with a small bit...

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Creating WordPress Themes:Using Custom Fields

I need to get my bearings! I was away last week (my little brother got married! I used to change his diapers! I can’t believe it.), and I returned with an illness, so I’ve been unexpectedly down for the count this week as well. I’m still not 100%, but at least I can now sit here and do some things without feeling woozy. So, now I need to figure out where I left off and...

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