Using WordPress Post Thumbnails

Post thumbnails, AKA featured images, are a great feature in WordPress allowing you to associate a chosen image with each post or page. This is commonly used in newspaper style layouts to display a little thumbnail image next to each entry in a list of blog posts. Post thumbnails are really easy to set up and incredibly flexible.

The possibilities for using post thumbnails are endless, try to think outside of simply having a litttle image attached to each post. We have already used them to great effect on our very own site. The  image sliders on the homepage  showing our latest work are populated with post thumbnails.

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How we built the AdmiralPR website

We’re very proud of the AdmiralPR website. It not only looks great and works brilliantly, but it makes use of some of the new WordPress 3.0 functionality to good effect, and also contains some sneaky jQuery which lifts the site in some subtle ways.

We’re going to examine why the site worked out so well, before discussing what went on under the hood.

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WordPress 3 test drive: New features

WordPress 3 is nearly upon us, it is currently in release candidate, one step away from launch. We have been playing with this version so that we are ready when the big day comes. Now would be a good time to reveal some of the cool new features available in this major WordPress 3 update. There are a large number of minor tweaks and additions but we will focus on the major ones that will be most visible to WordPress users.

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Top 10 datagraphic websites

I was browsing through one of the sites we’ve recently launched and saw a fantastic post on datagraphics by Ann Winter of the Arts Research Digest.

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Kino Add HTML plugin for WordPress

I’m happy to announce that the Kino Add HTML plugin is now ready for release.

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WordPress: Next/previous post navigation with images and inactive links

As with most aspects of WordPress, the next / previous navigation links are highly customisable. The WordPress codex has a pretty comprehensive reference for this, but one thing that might not be immediately obvious is how to use images for the links or how to show inactive links.

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Kino Events Calendar Plugin for WordPress

The Kino Events Calendar is a simple yet flexible calendar plugin for WordPress. It works as an upgrade to the standard WordPress calendar plugin.

Once installed the calendar will sit in the sidebar. You can also easily select an Events page which shows all current and future events in a logical order. The calendar requires PHP5 to be running on your server.

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Woo-hoo! Custom Menus announced in WordPress 3

The big WordPress scoop of the day is the deal struck with the creators of WooThemes Custom Navigation to include it’s code into the  core of WordPress 3. This is a major addition that will add some really cool functionality.

Currently WordPress only lets you list all your pages or all your posts. There are plugins available  that let you exclude certain pages / categories

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