August 14, 2008
jQuery is an intuitive, light-weight JavaScript Library that has quickly become popular, mostly due to its ease of use. Amongst many other things, jQuery provides the ability to make website content dynamic without reloading a page.
Using jQuery with WordPress affords many wonderful design and development opportunities. I thought I’d take the time to explain the steps necessary to start working with jQuery on a (self-hosted) WordPress installation, as it is under-documented and potentially confusing.
This post was updated on January 21, 2009 to reflect changes in the way the wp_enqueue_script tag is used in WordPress 2.6 and above.
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July 30, 2008
I love WordPress. For those of you who aren’t familiar with it, WordPress is a Content Management System (CMS) that was built for blogs. “Blog”, derived from weblog, refers to any website that has dated entries. The nature of a blog is inherently appropriate for newspaper and magazine sites, journal and review sites, portfolio and showcase sites, and even mixed-media portals. WordPress can be used to create these types of sites dynamically. Better yet, WordPress can be used to build any other type of website you can imagine.
So wait, why don’t I just build websites with Front Row, or Dreamweaver. What’s so speacial about CMS’s?
In the first part of this series, I will explain the difference between dynamic and static websites, while comparing the process of making both.
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