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34 | Alternating Posts Backgrounds for Twenty Ten

Posted on September 9, 2010 by alchymyth
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This is a short instruction how to add alternating styles to the post on the front page and in the archives of the wp3 default theme. Edit loop.php of Twenty Ten, and locate: Change this to: This will add the … Check the whole post »

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33 | Image Rotator for the Header of Twentyten

Posted on July 24, 2010 by alchymyth
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The wp3 default theme TwentyTen comes with a choice of header images, which can be selected from the dashboard. To rotate these images to show randomly in the header, we can make use of the global array variable which stores … Check the whole post »

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32 | Automatically Shorten the Manual Excerpt

Posted on July 10, 2010 by alchymyth
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Limit the length of all excerpts – including the manual written one. A code on how to use filter hooks to do this. The code also opens more possibilities for further customisation of the_excerpt() wordpress function. Check the whole post »

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