les james

design & stuff

Templating WordPress Image Attachments

Wordpress doesn’t come with any native tags to template post attachments so I came up with a function to help. Simply include a chunk of code in your functions.php file and call the function from inside the loop. The function returns and array with multiple pieces of info about your post attachments.

Creating a Lifestream

I have been giving some thought as to the direction of this site. 90% of this site’s design is centered about a blog. It doesn’t take long to notice that I don’t blog very often. So I have been playing with the idea of turning this site into a lifestream. The design would give equal [...]

Breaking Away From Viewport

This site’s design is reaching a crossroads. I am starting to remove major elements of the Viewport theme in a move to increase the site’s usability and layout aesthetics. This move is being done with special category templates for the web and interactive sections of my portfolio. I have removed the sliding panels and opted [...]

Viewport Theme

Update: June 22, 2010: I am no longer using the Viewport Theme on my site. If you have a question about your Viewport Theme or WordPress in general feel free to shoot me a message through Twitter. Archived Post… I finally had a little time to work on this site.  Wouldn’t you know I’ve thrown [...]

Constructing lj

So I have the database set up and the initial theme files in place.  There are still a few bugs to work out like commenting forms and image pre-loading, but for the most part the blog is fairly functionional.  This is the first WordPress theme that I have built from scratch so it’s taking me [...]