Customizing the jQuery-UI Datepicker

2010-08-30

I had a few requirements to implement last week involving an inline jQuery datepicker widget that were not natively supported, so I thought I'd share my workarounds. The datepicker widget is being used as a navigation aid to a calendar of events. The full code is at the bottom of the post. There's currently no example page (yet) but I intend to add one in a later update.

Unsupported Requirements

  1. Clickable calendar headings
  2. Ability to select a week at a time

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Tags: jquery

WordPress custom post query breaking pagination

2010-08-08

Ran into this issue last week at work. We had a custom query on the front page of a WordPress site that was retrieving posts from a specific category, using the WP query_posts() function. That worked well until the site added enough posts to roll over onto a second page, but then we found out that the "page 2" link just redisplayed the home page with no modifications.

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Tags: wordpress, php

Obligatory first blog post

2010-08-08

Not 100% sure how this will end up, but I'm trying this out as an experiment. For starters it will probably just be coding solutions/tricks that I've run into that I want to save for posterity/my own reference. Hope you find something useful.