Pro Blog Design

Let’s say you want to show thumbnails in your blog’s front page. A lot of blogs do that now and it’s a good way of making the page look more alive.

The only problem though is that using custom fields can be complicated and time-wasting. This post will show you how to make your theme generate thumbnails automatically, based on your post’s first image.

This trick is done by mixing some wordpress hacks and a php script. The PHP script is Darren Hoyt’s timthumb.php, the hack is WpRecipe’s how to get the first post image.

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With WordPress 2.7 came the post_class function. This gives a set of CSS classes to a post, depending on what’s in the post (e.g. based on what category it is in).
The code that you use in your template to use this is simply like this:

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<div id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>

While this is a fantastic [...]

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