Add jQuery Accordion Layout

Moving on with Part III of our five part series on creating a jQuery accordion with tabs inside. Remember that our final goal is to create a page like this one that we created for Mox & Dom. It has tabs within an accordion. But for Part III of this series, we’re going to just get the accordion laid out so that it looks something like this: jQuery Accordion Demo Accordion One Accordion One Content goes here. You can put anything you want here Accordion Two Accordion Two Content goes here. You can put anything you want here. So let’s get started There’s 2 parts to any jQuery insertion. The HTML...          [ Read More ]

Inserting jQuery Into Wordpress

This is Part II of a five part series on building jQuery accordions with tabs inside the accordion. Part II will show the details of installing the necessary jQuery files into your Wordpress blog. To start, we need to insert the jQuery core library and the jQuery UR library into your Wordpress theme, so that we have access to all the pre-built functions that jQuery provides. There are 2 different libraries that we’ll need to download, the core jQuery library, and the user interface libraries for tabs and accordions. The core jQuery library is included with the jQuery UI library download, so there’s only one...          [ Read More ]

The Mission: jQuery Tabs & Accordions

This five part series will teach you how to insert a jQuery accordion into a Wordpress page or post that has jQuery tabs inside of the accordion layout.  You can see an example of a straight accordion in action here on Blogging Emergency, and you can see a live example of tabs within an accordion over at Mox & Dom. Before you get all edgy that this whole jQuery / javascript thing is over your head, I want to assure you that this tutorial won’t require you to do ANY javascript programming. Just some cut and paste from my tutorial to your site. If you can handle HTML and CSS, and know the file structure of Wordpress,...          [ Read More ]

Wordpress Releases Version 2.8.5

Wordpress has just updated it’s popular blogging platform to version 2.8.5, and is mostly security enhancements.  There seems to be a serious effort by hackers to find exploits, holes and bugs in the Wordpress platform, but the global team of Wordpress developers are, as always, on top of it. With Wordpress’s one-click update, it’s so easy and I HIGHLY recommend that you upgrade to the latest version of Wordpress.  Previous versions have major security holes in them that are actively being exploited en masse by online hackers. Go Download Wordpress 2.8.5 Now! You can read more about the security updates...          [ Read More ]

Installing Feedburner Counts For Feedburner RSS

If you look off to the right side of the page, at the RSS subscribe section, you’ll see (well, at the time of this writing anyhow) the count of the number of RSS readers that I currently have. I had at first tried out the FeedBurnerCount wordpress plugin, but I couldn’t ever get it to register my feed count. So after digging a little deeper, I found examples that were similar to what I needed, but not quite what I was looking for. What I have below is the culmination of several ideas from many authors, and piled them into one conglomeration that works as of Wordpress 2.8.5. The first thing I did was to add...          [ Read More ]

9 Essential Wordpress Plugins I Install For All My Clients

Whenever I install a new blog for clients, I always make sure that several essential additional plugins are installed and configured. Here’s my list of 9 Wordpress plugins that I install to make things easier for my clients, and easier for search engines to find my clients blogs. WP Spam Free WP-SpamFree is the worlds greatest (in my opinion) anti-spam plugin for Wordpress.  No signups or registrations, no captcha forms, no configuration, and works with most comment forms and contact forms that I’ve ever used.  Prevents trackback spam, comment spam, and contact form spam.  Just install and you’re done. ...          [ Read More ]

Selective Stylesheets For Wordpress Pages

Pages in Wordpress blogs often times are created purposefully different from the rest of the blog, for instance, if one wants a separate sales page, or special event – Even certain posts might need to be look different and use a selective stylesheet. But how do you load up a special CSS file, without having to create special classes and ids that will muck up the original CSS file? The answer lies in selective loading of a stylesheet for only the pages, posts, categories or author pages that you want it to load for.  And the great thing is that it isn’t only for pages or posts. Below are some code snippets...          [ Read More ]

Headspace2 SEO Plugin For Wordpress

Many of you may not know this, but aside from running Blogging Emergency, my other life is that of an SEO consultant.  So as you can well imagine, an SEO plugin for Wordpress is of paramount importance to me, my sites, and those of my clients.  I’ve tried 3 or 4 different plugins, and every time, I come back to HeadSpace2. HeadSpace2 is simple to use, and provides a reliable mechanism to change meta data on a per group basis, or on a finer grained per-post basis. Titles of a page are about as important as important gets in SEO, so making sure that each page has the right title is important, but sometimes one doesn’t...          [ Read More ]