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Harley

I'm Harley! I like to call myself a jQueryfied WordPress designer! What a mouthful, huh? I'm based in Australia and have been working with (X)HTML/CSS, Flash, Illustrator and Photoshop for over 3 years, and have found a now year and a half old obsession with WordPress and jQuery. Be sure to get some more info on me on my site!

How to Set Up a Killer WordPress Testing Environment Locally

How to Set Up a Killer WordPress Testing Environment Locally

If you’re a heavy WordPress developer like me, you might find that you need to create a new installation for each site that requires a strange structure or specific posts, instead of using your uniform local test WordPress installation. Cue WordPress Mu. WordPress Multi User is a platform created by the geniuses at Automattic that is basically a WordPress installation that allows multiple blogs to run using the same software.

5 New WordPress 2.7 Features

5 Amazing New WordPress 2.7 Features

WordPress 2.7 is to be publically released in the next week, and a whole bunch of features have been packed in, looking past the obvious such as the new redesign. The new dashboard, Screen options, Plugins, Themes and Core upgrades and the media library!

Address Book
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Mimicking Apple’s Address Book for the Web

As we all know, WordPress is so extensive that you can use it for nearly anything. There are even articles on sites with crazy titles such as 101 alternative uses for WordPress. So I thought, hey, why not? I bet a lot of people want to create their own Web Apps, and essentially WordPress can do that for you. In this video tutorial, we’re going to make an online Address Book.

WordPress Footer

Don’t Ignore Your WordPress Footer

Footers are often an overlooked aspect of designing a site – when they can actually be kinda handy and informative. In this tutorial we’ll go through some options you can have for your WordPress site.

Context Includes

Context Includes

The great thing about WordPress is that it doesn’t limit how content is displayed, but provides a ‘framework’ of ways to do so. Even better, it’s possible to change the display according to the content. When writing this tutorial it was hard to explain what’s going on… But the best way is this: the post will be displayed within the loop according to its content – or contextual differences. Either way, it’s including specific files that match up to the category of the post.

Leopard With jQuery

Adding to Our Leopard Desktop with jQuery

Last Week I got you all to create a neat looking Dashboard/Desktop. You guys are gonna totally FLIP when you hear what’s in this jam packed tutorial! More focus on the Dashboard (I swear it’s cooler than it sounds, and requires a lot of code), and I’ll even go into how to create a stack (seperate from the dock, sorry jqDock doesn’t like nestled <ul>s), and some extra little bits to make it all click.

jQuery Dashboard

Leopard Desktop with jQuery using jqDock

jQuery adds a whole lot of cool functionality to your websites. It can do a range of things, from animation to AJAX. It’s usually frowned upon to rely heavily on jQuery to design your sites, but it’s fun to go wild every now and then. In this tutorial I’ll teach you how to use jQuery to create a completely coded Dashboard, just like Leopard! This can be handy in hiding a whole lot of gadgets or widgets you don’t have space for!

5 Time-Saving CSSEDIT TIPS

5 Time Saving CSSEdit Tips

CSSEdit is another fantastic web dev app, which takes Apple’s WebKit by the reigns to deliver a fantastic real-time visual CSS editing experience. But that’s just it! People only know it as a visual CSS editor, when it is actually much more! I use these 5 fantastic tips to keep my work flow fast and smooth.

Youtube Section

Create A YouTube Section With WordPress

So I was reading a few blogs that I read, as you do on a lazy afternoon, and I came across Ideate . I loved the theme so much, I wanted to re-create the little TV box they have that contains a YouTube video. In this tutorial, we’ll have a look at how!

The Power of WordPress

Build a Newspaper Theme With WP_Query and the 960 CSS Framework

WP_Query is a powerful tool to control what comes out of your loop. Today I’m going to teach you all how to use it to make a 3 columned newspaper theme that has all your main blog posts in the main column, and off to the side a set of posts with a certain category. We’ll be using the 960 CSS framework for the basic layout and reset of our theme, it will chop a lot of work off what’s needed!

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