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WordPress 2.8 Themes Cookbook

By : Nick Ohrn, Lee Jordan
Book Image

WordPress 2.8 Themes Cookbook

By: Nick Ohrn, Lee Jordan

Overview of this book

Themes are among the most powerful features that can be used to customize a web site and give it a professional look, especially in WordPress. Using custom themes you can brand your site for a particular corporate image, ensure standards compliance, and create easily navigable layouts. But most WordPress users still continue to use default themes as developing and deploying themes that are flexible and easily maintainable is not always straightforward and lot of issues pop up during the process.This easy-to-use step-by-step guide will help you create powerful themes for your WordPress web site, and solve your theme development problems in a quick and effective way. It enables you to take full control over your site's design and branding and make it look smarter.WordPress is distributed with two ready-to-use themes. You can use these themes to give a common look to your website, or use the techniques described in this book to create custom themes. This book includes over 100 useful recipes to help you get started and create advanced themes. It starts with the basics of WordPress themes and creating a theme from scratch. Then, it covers how to enhance your template and add effects to get a rich look. You will learn how to manage pages, categories, and tags for your blogs, and how to make your posts look unique. You will also learn about the comment system and sidebars that will help you give a new feel to your blog and web site.This book will help you through the most common problems encountered when developing a WordPress theme. You will get tips to enhance your design skill and eventually enhance your blog's design.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
WordPress 2.8 Themes Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
Preface

Showing every post in a category on a category archive page


If you want your category pages to operate as a complete archive of all posts in that category (basically removing any type of pagination), you can make some simple changes to the basic Loop.

How to do it...

Open or create your theme's category.php file. This template file is used to display your category archives. Create a basic Loop by following the directions from the recipe Creating a basic Loop.

Above your Loop, insert the following code:

global $wp_query;
query_posts(
array_merge(
array('nopaging' => true),
$wp_query->query
)
);

How it works...

In the above code snippet, the query_posts function is used to modify the global query object. To ensure that all of the appropriate query parameters are preserved from the original query, the new parameters are merged with the old parameters. The old parameters are kept in the array $wp_query->query.

The nopaging parameter is set to true to indicate that all posts should be returned...