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InnerFade: A Quick & Easy Way To Fade Items With JQuery


October 14th '08
Alex Coleman

InnerFade: A Quick & Easy Way To Fade Items With JQuery

You may have noticed that the recent comments on this blog are no longer displayed as a list. They are now displayed as a fading slideshow, a fade-show if you will. This fade-show effect was accomplished using the very easy to implement InnerFade plugin for JQuery. I also used the same technique on my newly released On The Field Wordpress theme.

Normally, I would provide some insight and some sample code to show how everything works, but in this case, the plugin page does an excellent job. If you have any further questions, leave it in the comments and I’ll do my best to answer.

InnerFade JQuery Plugin

Quick Tip: How To Enable Wordpress Features On Non-Root Pages


September 11th '08
Alex Coleman

Quick Tip: How To Enable Wordpress Features On Non-Root Pages

Sometimes you have a page you’d like to add your side bar, recent posts or archives on. One problem, it’s not in the same directory as Wordpress. If this page is not in the Wordpress directory, this page will not work. You’ll get an error for every piece of PHP code referring to a Wordpress function. This quick tip will show you how to overcome this issue and have Wordpress features on a non Wordpress page.

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