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How Pagination Works

We look at the WordPress pagination system and how the next and previous links work in order of pages. By default posts are displayed with the latest post first. Pagination appears to operate backwards with page 1 showing the most recent post, page 2 showing earlier posts and so on. You could set up your [...]

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Create a Download Catalog Page Using the BYOB Thesis Shortcode Content Widgets Plugin

In this lesson a member asks for help creating and styling a catalog page on his site. He has used tables but the images and text don’t line up well. Tables are difficult to style for anything but tabular data. We discuss other options for creating and styling the download catalog page. We demonstrate how [...]

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Community Library Website Case Study – Part 29, Designing a Custom Catalog Page

This is the twenty ninth in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this lesson we create a custom catalog page and discuss the types of functions we’d like on this page. In future sessions we will add two searchable catalog menus, we will show [...]

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Community Library Website Case Study – Part 30, Using a Query String in a URL

This is the thirtieth in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this lesson we introduce how to include taxonomy queries in a URL. We’re going to use the native WordPress functionality to add a custom query inside the URLs for the searchable catalog menus. [...]

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Community Library Website Case Study – Part 31, Adding Custom WordPress Menus

This is the thirty first in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this lesson we continue working on our new catalog page and create the first custom menu using the WordPress 3.0 Menus. Then we show you how to add the menu items. Later [...]

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Community Library Website Case Study – Part 32, Add Custom Menus to the Catalog Page

This is the thirty second in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this lesson we continue working on our new catalog page and add the first custom menu using functions in our custom_functions.php file. This allows us to specify that the menus only show [...]

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Community Library Website Case Study – Part 33, Add Another Custom Menu to the Catalog Page

This is the thirty third in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this lesson we continue working on our new catalog page and create the first custom menu using the WordPress 3.0 Menus. Then we add the menu using functions in our custom_functions.php file [...]

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Community Library Website Case Study – Part 34, Troubleshooting Custom Menus

This is the thirty fourth in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this lesson we continue working on our new catalog page. We check to make sure all the links work and discuss putting the menu on each of the linked pages. Video Transcript [...]

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Community Library Website Case Study – Part 42, Custom Loop to Display Custom Post Types

This is the 42nd in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this lesson we create the custom loop for our custom catalog page. This custom loop will display recent posts organized by custom taxonomy. We use the WordPress function get_terms() to look at the [...]

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Community Library Website Case Study – Part 44, Custom Taxonomy Query

This is the 44th in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this lesson we modify the custom loop for our custom catalog page. This custom loop will display recent posts organized by custom taxonomy. We use the new tax_query parameter to limit the display [...]

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Community Library Website Case Study – Part 45, Add Thesis HTML Structure to Teasers

This is the 45th in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this lesson we modify our custom catalog page so that the teaser display inherits the Thesis HTML Structure. Video Transcript Oh that takes us to step 4 then which now we want to [...]

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Community Library Website – Part 47, Custom Loop If Have Posts

This is the 47th in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this lesson we modify the custom loop for our custom catalog page. This custom loop will display recent posts organized by custom taxonomy. We use the “if have posts” conditional statement to exclude [...]

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Community Library Case Study Case Study – Part 48, Increase the Number of Posts that Display on the Custom Catalog

This is the forty eighth in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this lesson we change the display of posts so that any post that meets the right criteria for the recent posts category will show. Currently only 20 posts are being displayed. We [...]

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