My First Ever Technicial Article

I was asked by Lachy G to write an article for WebDevLounge. WebDevLounge is a NEW blog about design and development articles, tutorials, tips, guides, resources, interviews, gallery, forum and community. It was a honour for me that Lachy asked me to write for his site since I believe that I am not a good writer.

I wrote about how wordpress page template can be used to create portfolio type system with Wordpress.

Click here to read my article.

8 Responses to “My First Ever Technicial Article”

  1. Droid June 26th, 2008

    Maybe I don´t know enough for wordpress template system but I think you are mixing up page templates and category templates.

    You can´t put a page IN a category, then cateory=3 what´s for?

  2. Haris June 26th, 2008

    Hello Droid,

    First of all, thanks for commenting on my blog. :)
    Now, what I did was simple. I got posts only from “Work” category and used the wordpress loop to output the posts. It was a template that can be used with pages.

    I can’t put page in a category but I can USE category for pages. :)

  3. Droid June 26th, 2008

    you are ALL right :) Wordpress rocks

  4. Droid June 26th, 2008

    I have a question.
    Why not use category-3.php template instead a page template?

  5. Haris June 26th, 2008

    Hello again, Droid.

    There are more than one way to accomplish your goals with Wordpress.

    The page template benefit is that a link is dynamically added to the navigation however, with category templates you’ll have to add a link to the navigation manually.

    You still have to use is_category() function to get from that particular category. What is the difference between using category-x.php and page templates?

    Use whatever way you feel comfortable with. :)

  6. Droid June 26th, 2008

    Thanks! I understand now

  7. Chad KIeffer July 3rd, 2008

    Nice job Muhammad!

  8. Muhammad Haris July 3rd, 2008

    Thanks a lot, Chad. :)

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