I do most of my WordPress development using a combination of VirtualBox and Ubuntu. Over time I’ve developed a few simple tips that make my workflow a little more efficient, so I wanted to share them with anyone else who read my previous tutorial on setting up a VM as a WordPress development environment. Running…
Recently I needed to create a Data View Web Part in MOSS 2007 that displayed all upcoming events, as well as all events that took place within the last week. The out of the box filtering options in SharePoint Designer (SPD) let you filter a Date and Time column by the “[Current Date]” or by…
Note: This article was originally posted on NothingButSharePoint.com, but some of the code snippets were unescaped when it was published, so I decided to post it on my own blog with the correct code snippets. I was recently tasked with finding a way to maintain an org chart for my department. If this were a…
I recently ran into an issue with using multiple content types on a custom list in SharePoint. I wanted each content type to have its own custom display form (DispFormCustom1.aspx, DispFormCustom2.aspx, etc.). Using SharePoint Designer (SPD), you can right-click on the list, open the list properties, and view the Supporting Files tab to select a…
One of the first things I noticed in the WordPress development environment I set up using VirtualBox and Ubuntu (see my previous post) was that whenever I wanted to install or upgrade a theme, plugin, etc. I had to enter my credentials in order to allow the Apache server to upload files to my wordpress…
I decided to start a fun new project by setting up a development environment for WordPress. My primary goals are to have something I can use on my desktop or laptop without worrying about cluttering up the operating system (OS)on my PCs or scattering project files all across my home network. My buddy Justin over at…
Update: I’ve posted a newer version of this solution that allows for multiple search boxes on the same page. The code is similar, but I highly recommend using the updated solution for better flexibility. View it here: http://joshmccarty.com/2011/05/sharepoint-contextual-search-updated/. SharePoint provides a couple of ways to search on a web part page. First, the Master Page…
I’ve been working on a longer post that I plan on splitting up over several pages. It’s a tutorial/walkthrough that includes a lot of images. Everything was going great until I decided to preview the post. For some reason when I viewed the post, it would only show the post title and metadata, but not…
It finally happened. I’m starting a SharePoint category on my blog. So, I recently worked on a project in which users were encouraged to upload photos that they took at volunteer events around the country. The stakeholder wanted to have a slideshow of these images on the event home page, and of course it had…
I’ve just finished a new theme called “Glass” and activated it on this site. This is my second attempt at a WordPress theme, and I re-used many of the lessons learned from my first WordPress theme. It uses a basic two-column layout with a minimal header and footer. The template is compliant with XHTML 1.0…