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The product of today’s messing around with WordPress custom taxonomies in a bid to finish a client website – I needed to  generate a navigation based on categories stored in a custom taxonomy. Here’s the gist of it: function displayTaxonomyNav($taxonomy, $baseURL) { $output = NULL; $rangeNames = get_terms($taxonomy, ‘orderby=id&hide_empty=0’); foreach($rangeNames …
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This really did my head in for a while today! I thought it would be as simple as it is to find related posts, but nope, it’s a wee bit more involved. The scenario I have a custom post type set up for products, along with a custom …
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This is one of the fastest little tutorials I have probably ever written, and that’s because creating a “page loading” box in jQuery is so damn simple it’s silly. You can view the example just to see what it does. The Javascript You need to grab hold of …
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The other day I was trying to think of a nice way to let people know that my photography is available for print and stock licensing. Initially I thought I’d just have a nice brightly coloured box at the bottom of the page, but that seemed pretty crap. …
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I decided to do something a little different with the main navigation for this version of Gordonmac.com. You’ll notice that when you hover your mouse over a navigation button the rest of the buttons fade to highlight the one you’re pointing at. View Demo There is no jQuery …
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