Hubris Corpus

Custom WordPress Theme

hubris.jpgProject Complete: I was approached by a past client who had a friend that needed a custom blog theme developed. The friend is currently incarcerated in the Florida federal prison system and wishes to write about the criminal justice / prison system and his role in it, including one set of circumstances that took him to the United States Supreme Court.

I was able to use the basic framework of a blog developed for another client and customize it for use on the new Hubris Corpus website. The client wanted a theme that was rather ominous in appearance due to the serious nature of the anticipated content of this blog. As a result, I broke away from my normal approach and developed a theme that was light colored text on a dark background, which is not normally my preference. However, the associated graphics work nicely with the dark colors and I am very pleased with the final product. So is the client, which is all that really matters.

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January 8th, 2008 | Portfolio, WordPress | 1 comment

How to Display a Featured Post

Add Emphasis to an Individual Post

This module displays information about a particular post that I want to display more prominently.

As you may have noticed, I have implemented a “Featured Post&” module on the top of my main blog page. This module displays information about a particular post that I want to display more prominently.

I have been considering adding a feature like this for some time, but until I received some inspiration from from Philip Moore over at Big Square Blog I really had no direction on how to begin.

Philip suggests using his technique to display a post on a static WordPress Page, but I opted to use it to display a feature post on my main index template page. I used the code Philip supplied and tweaked it for my own use. Philip’s basic code assumes that you are going to display the content of your most recent post. However, in my situation I don’t want to display the most recent post. Instead, I want to identify a particular post and have the content of this post displayed in the “Featured Post” area of my blog.

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December 29th, 2007 | Website Design, WordPress | Comment first »

WordPress Category Page Templates

How Do You Use Them at Your Website?

On first glance you might not be able to think of any use for WordPress specialized category pages.

Somebody over at WordPress has thought of just about everything.

The more I use WordPress and implement it into my web design projects the better I understand what a full featured Content Management System it really is. I recently wrote an article desscribing one of my favorite WordPress features which allows you to assign separate category template pages for different post categories. This article explains this concept in a bit more detail.

Most of the standard WordPress themes include a file name archive.php. This file is called each time a user accesses an archived post. Examples of archived posts are:

  • Monthly posts
  • Yearly posts
  • Post within a certain category

When a user views the selected archived posts, the page displayed by the browser is controlled by the archive.php file and the XHTML code within that page. Often times this archive.php file is customized to offer the user information about the subset of posts that they are viewing. For instance, if you view the archives on this website for the posts filed under the category “Blogging” you will notice that the first paragraph of the page offers you a brief advisory of just what posts you are viewing.

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December 11th, 2007 | Blogging, WordPress | 1 comment

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