If you don’t know about AZ Residency read here first.
Just got here. Montemor-o-Novo is a lovely city. The place where we’re staying is an old monastery called Convento de Nossa Senhora da Saudação.
As for the hardware for my first project (it’s a rainy day), it’s still somewhere between Hong-Kong and Lisbon so I guess I won’t be working on that.
As for the second project we’re all set. We’ve got a Guibot here with us and we’re thrilled to start messing about with it.
Last week’s assignment on my P2PU WordPress development course was all about exploring custom post types, that nifty feature that 3.x brought us and that has made everyone talking about using WordPress as a CMS more seriously.
Unfortunately its not so easy to get into custom post types, especially if you’re coming from a non-programmer background. As a way to ease that pain I decided to share a skeleton of the custom post type so instead of starting from scratch you can start from a working version.
As I was planning to do this, @dannygsmith beat me to it and provided the following code. Use it and abuse it, this is your chance to get the assignment done ;)
Custom post type ‘gallery’: download
Also Núria Ramoneda decided to share some links to help you in the process:
http://thinkvitamin.com/code/create-your-first-wordpress-custom-post-type/
http://shibashake.com/wordpress-theme/add-custom-post-type-columns/
http://sixrevisions.com/wordpress/wordpress-custom-post-types-guide/
Thanks to both of them and get to work everyone. Time is running down! But don’t forget.. Enjoy!
I recently joined the AltLab Hackerspace in Lisbon, something I’ve been wanting to do for a while.
This month we will have an artistic residence, which consists basically in going away to a small city in the countryside for a few days and have fun doing projects. Now comes the fun part, I have two projects I want to do:
This week’s assignment:
If you got to this point you call honestly call yourself a self-learner. Most folks have quitted or fallen behind. If you’re still with us, congratulations, you are part of the top. However, before you can call your status you’ll have two final assignments. This week and the final next week. For this week assignment read on…Client Y loved your work and asked if you could provide a full site, based on WordPress, besides a blog. This would involve having a WordPress installation with a blog page (where blog posts will go) but also a page where photos will appear with some information. He would like the ability to enter photo information via the admin panel.
Suppose he wants to add a photo. He should have the admin panel option ‘New Photo’. Within this menu he can add:
- Photo’s Title
- Photo’s DescriptionAnd as extra fields:
- Location where the photo was taken
- Year the photo was taken
- Camera usedThe photo itself will be added via the ‘Featured Image’ metabox.
Can you do it?
Hint: Custom Post Types are ideal for this kind of job.
Stuff that can help:
- Provide a link to my e-mail for approval on this assignment with the subject: “your_p2pu_user/assignment4″. Results will be posted on-line afterwords.Update: For your changes to take effect on the frontend, meaning in the appearance of your site, you will need also to update the theme files in order to retrieve the extra fields and display them.
This week’s assignment:
Assignment #3 – P2PU WordPress Development Course
This week you’re sick of doing client work so you’ve decided to explore some WordPress things by yourself and learn by doing.
You’re especially inclined to try different hooks (actions and filters) and how to use them. As a goal you’ve decided to do a plugin that your clients can install on their blogs and that will add a Help button (in the admin) that they can click to message you (send you an e-mail).
- Provide a link to my e-mail with the subject ”p2pu_username/assignment3″ for approval on this assignment. Results will be posted on-line afterwords.
- Be sure to drop by today (Wednesday) on Campfire (https://alforreca.campfirenow.com/c300e), we’re here to help you!