Easily Customize WordPress’ Default Functionality

The absolute best thing about WordPress is how flexible it is. Don’t like the theme? Just change it. Need added functionality? There is probably a plugin you can download or buy. If not, build it yourself! You can change pretty much anything about WordPress. In this article, we’ll go over some easy ways to customize WordPress that you might not know about.

Change The Default Source Of jQuery

Another great thing about WordPress is that it comes locked and loaded with all kinds of JavaScript libraries, including jQuery. It also gives you the power to change the source of those libraries according to your needs. Let’s say we want to relieve our server of some stress by switching WordPress’ version of jQuery for a hosted solution (or CDN version). We can very easily change the source of jQuery with this function:

function add_scripts() { wp_deregister_script( 'jquery' ); wp_register_script( 'jquery', 'http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.1.min.js'); wp_enqueue_script( 'jquery' ); } add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'add_scripts');

Three things are going on here. First, we’re using wp_deregister_script() to tell WordPress to forget about the version of jQuery currently being used. We then use wp_register_script() to re-register jQuery (as the script name), using jQuery’s own CDN version. Finally, we use wp_enqueue_script() to add jQuery to our theme or plugin. One thing to note here is that we’re using add_action(), not add_filter(), to add our scripts. Because we’re not making any changes to the content, but instead relying on WordPress to do something in order for our scripts to load, we use an action hook, not a filter hook. Read about both in the WordPress Codex.

Say Hello to Webkit Filters

Say Hello to Webkit Filters

“A filter effect is a graphical operation that is applied to an element as it is drawn into the document. It is an image-based effect, in that it takes zero or more images as input, a number of parameters specific to the effect, and then produces an image as output.”

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Jacob Cass founder of "justcreative"

Jacob Cass is a very famous freelancer graphic design, located in Sydney australia. he is self-employed as a graphic designer, specialising in the fields of corporate identity (logo) design, web design, print design and branding with the majority of my time spent designing and implementing marketing promotions for businesses such as logos, websites, letterhead, business cards, packaging and more. In January 2010, he moved from Sydney, Australia to New York City, USA to begin full time work at Carrot Creative, a new media marketing agency specialising in media strategy, design & development. Although he is no longer with Carrot Creative, it was an honour to work alongside such talent in the office & a privilege to have the opportunity to work with some of the world’s most vaunted brands… Disney, Nike, Red Bull, Coach just to name a few. Although this was a full time job, he still managed to do freelance design on the side during this time — commitment or addiction, who is to know? If interested, you can read about how he scored the job (via Twitter) at Carrot Creative. More info just visit his official site http://justcreative.com

Top 2012 Ecommerce Trend: Retailers Need to Move to Mobile

Why ecommerce move to Mobile

Now a days, trends move on mobile, smart devices, tablets etc. It is growing like a blinking of lashes, and how consumers use them for ecommerce. Main pupose behind growing, Most of every person is having mobile. they can access at anywhere. On mobile devices your customers do everything. They can search product, buy them, easy online payment. Main advantage is getting good comparing prices.
More and more traffic is coming from smartphone users. We have seen an even bigger explosion in the rate of orders coming from tablets. Ecommerce website is made in 3 versions. one is for desktop users and second is for smartphone and third one is for tablets.