WordPress Tips on JErickson.net

WordPress Post vs. Page

joe@jerickson.net (Joe Erickson) — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 20:09:59 -0400

When building your WordPress theme, you might have been planning it to be used mainly as a blog theme or perhaps you lean in the web pages direction. Either way, to make a fully integrated WordPress theme, you need to make sure both Pages and Posts are fully supported. And that means you should have a single.php and a page.php included in your theme and they shouldn’t look the same.
You may think this is obvious, but I’ve seen many times when a theme is geared just toward web pages or just toward blogs (the most common) and then have a junky default index.php for handling the other half because the theme wasn’t fully thought through. Posts and Pages are both first-class citizens in WordPress and should be treated that way. And your clients will love you if you do.

WordPress Menu CSS Customization

joe@jerickson.net (Joe Erickson) — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 11:31:23 -0400

WordPress isn’t always the friendliest thing in the world to style and the WordPress menus are no different. To get at the WordPress menu CSS takes a couple of hoops to jump through, but I’ll walk you through them now to illustrate how it can be done.

Requiring Authentication for WordPress Feeds

joe@jerickson.net (Joe Erickson) — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 19:05:08 -0400

Someone asked this over at http://wordpress.stackexchange.com and I put a lot of research into it, so I figured I’d post it here too.

Someone had asked how to go about securing RSS feeds behind a firewall in WordPress. It’s not an overly easy process so I dug in to try and figure it out.