As a designer, doing work for yourself is probably the most difficult thing you can ever do. In fact, most dread it. To add to the pressure, creating an online presence is not only vital to get right, it has to be the best. After all, if you can’t prove your skills on your own website then how can you expect someone to hire you?
This is the second part of the tutorial ‘Linking WordPress posts using custom fields’. If you haven’t read part 1, you’ll need to take a look at that first here.
In part 1 we learned how to link to a post, and display it’s content within our new post using custom fields and manipulating the single.php file. In this part we are going to learn how to link back to the post using another single.php file. This is quite simple and because we have already setup our WordPress blog with the correct custom fields, the only file we will need to modify is the template file performer-single.php.
In this 2 part tutorial I will explain how to insert content from another post, into our new post, using only custom fields. I recently came across a problem in WordPress to link posts together. The idea was to use WordPress more as a CMS than a blogging platform. As many of you know, WordPress is extremely flexible in that it gives the designer many ways to display content. I decided to explore some of these ways to query posts, and link them together, saving time publishing content
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April
Anyone who has ever tried to design an email template will know where I am going with this. It seems that until now, there has never been a set of standards to abide by when designing emails. Sure, we can follow our web design standards as closely as we normally would, but since current email clients support different HTML tags & CSS properties, how can we be sure we are all getting the same result? This is where the Email Standards Project comes in.
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March
Not so inspiring
I was sitting at my desk earlier on today trying to find inspiration for my current project. A lot of the time I already have a picture in my head of where I want to go with a project. But this morning, there was nothing in there. I started looking around my office, and this is when I realised that I wasn’t in the most inspiring of environments.
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March
After a lot of hard work, my new website has finally launched. There are still a few things to do here and there, but the bulk of the site is finished.
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