and I love tacos
Alright so here we go, my first theme based on the WP Post Carousel I built this summer.
Here are a couple of screen shots, check the list below for a few features.
UPDATE: Wordousel Lite 1.2 Released – Download link and Change log at the bottom of this post.
Download & Donate buttons are not included in the theme files
I recently wrote a post explaining how to create a jQuery carousel with WordPress posts and it has received great feedback.
I expand on the original carousel post by quickly showing you how to use the power of WordPress custom fields to expand your output control even further from the WordPress admin panel.
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When I created Armeda.com I wanted an easy way to have a different title on each interior page based on an image.
This is a quick and dirty way to add one piece of code to page.php or to custom templates which will output a different image depending on the page title.
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Over the past few months I have had various requests for content sliders and carousels that integrate WordPress posts on each slide.
This post will give you a quick run down of how to easily add a simple and easily customizable carousel with WordPress posts from a specified category.
To give you an example of what we are going to put together, I have implemented a carousel on my demo site. I implemented a WordPress theme template for the index page, and integrated the carousel on that page. You can output this wherever you can add a WordPress loop with query_posts.
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Now we get to the meat and potato’s. You now have your domain sitting on your hosting account. It’s time to get WordPress downloaded, uploaded to your server, and installed. You’ll know what I mean by the time you are done reading this post.
I initially wanted to create a post that went from registering your domain name, to installing WordPress, to publishing your first post. It became apparent quickly that it would be better to segment the HOW TO into multiple posts. This is the second post in the series, and the follow on will include plugin installation, theme upload, and WordPress personalization.
The great thing about WordPress is its following. If it exists in WordPress, it has probably been written about. Using your resources along the way, will help make anything possible.
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