34 | Image Rotator for the Header of Twentyten

Posted by alchymyth | Tips & Tricks,Wordpress | Saturday 24 July 2010

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 all the default header image information: $_wp_default_headers.
The rest is easy: we build a function, which we later save in functions.php of TwentyTen, to pick a random image out of the available images:
function rotate_default_headers() {
global … » read more »

22 | Multi-Column Grid-Style Posts in WordPress

Posted by alchymyth | Wordpress | Friday 29 January 2010
a three column grid category template

following question comes up regularly in the wordpress support forum: ‘i want to show my posts in three (four, five) columns, how can i do it?’
see the effect here in action: under pages ‘grid of posts’.
EDIT:
as this code can have its challenges, and is not always easy to apply, i would like to point to another approach with the same results:
Playing with columns – stacking posts in a grid.
END of EDIT
here, i am going  to … » read more »

14 | WordPress as a Model of Human Consciousness

Posted by dr michael | Personal Development | Wednesday 29 July 2009
matrix

Many researchers of the human mind have already tried to explain some aspects of the workings of the mind and ego by analogy of a computer.
This holds true also for an open source program such as wordpress.
I will put it this way: the wordpress software, ie. the core program, is the subconsciousness. We know it is there, but generally we are not aware of it and don’t understand how it works. And, unless something goes … » read more »