Responsive Themes for WordPress

Responsive Websites become a must in 2012. This tutorial demonstrates how to make your WordPress Theme Responsive.

In very simple terms: Responsive Web Design aims to display content adapted to the visitors screen size. This means namely that the layout width must be fluid, i.e. expressed as a percentage of the width of the screen, typefaces expressed in em and images must be scalable.

Responsive WordPress Theme XO by Semiomantics

Practically speaking: a responsive designs can be viewed on a smart-phone or on a large PC screen, the display will always be the same and adapted to the size of the screen or browser window. n stead of using multiple style-sheets for different screen sizes, designers use Media Queries which allow to create multiple layouts using the same content. To achieve scalability, CSS media queries, such as min-width or orientation are used.

A quick and easy way consists in creating a child theme; this allows you to upgrade your theme as the case may be without altering your customizations.

1. Create a new folder in your wp-content/themes folder and name it anything you like; for the purpose of this exercise I call it “responsive”

2. Create a style sheet in your new Child Theme folder (call it styles.css).

3. Suppose your main theme is called “wptheme”; paste the following into style.css

 /*
 Theme Name: wptheme Child
 Theme URI: http://www.yourdomain.com/
 Description: Child theme for wptheme
 Author: Your Name
 Author URI: http://www.yourdomain.com
 Template: wptheme
 Version:1.0
 */

The only line you really need to respect is Template:wptheme; this line refers to the parent theme folder.

4. Import the parent themes style-sheet by adding now the following line to your new style.css:

@import url(“../wptheme/style.css”);

5. Define the screen sizes you design for. (Smart-phones, tablets, PC) To test the result we just create different h1 color values for the different screen sizes:

@media screen and (max-width:320px)
{
h1 {
color: #ff0000;
}
}
@media screen and (min-width:321px) and (max-width:768px)
{
h1 {
color:#00FF00;
}
}
@media screen and (min-width:769px)
{
h1 {
color: #0000FF;
}
}

Having set these basic parameters, you can now apply styles and layout values to taste, such as vertical navigation display on small screens.

To make images responsive we will need to take some WordPress specifics into account and there fore we will intervene with CSS3 and Media Queries and modify styles.css and functions.php of our theme.

Add the following to your style-sheet to make images scalable:

img{max-width: 100%;}
img{ -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic; }

Now the images will be re-sized to fit horizontally, while the vertical scaling is still defined by WordPress. We need to remove WordPress image height and width values to scale our images proportionally.

In WP, image classes come with a with and height properties; we delete these properties like so:

change in your WP editor:

<img class=”imgclass” src=”../images/imagethumb.jpg” alt=”” width=”100″ height=”100″ />

to this:

< img class=”imgclass” src=”../images/imagethumb.jpg” alt=”” />

This will work for your post and page images, however not for the images created by WP dynamically, such as post thumbnails. We need to delete with and height properties dynamically with a function.

Add to functions.php:

function remove_wp_width_height($string){
return preg_replace(‘/\/i’, ”,$string);
}

Now you need to make a final modification in your template and replace:

the_post_thumbnail();

with the following:

echo remove_wp_width_height(get_the_post_thumbnail(get_the_ID(),’large’));

That’s all!

Hopefully the above will help you to do additional customization wok and as the case may be, to adapt your great themes to the requirements of 2012 Web Design.

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Trendwise with Semiomantics XO2012

In a world of infinite choice, we all have our personal preferences when it comes to creating the Web Design for our personal websites and blogs – and this is exactly what many of our customers will tell us, especially if they have a business with set colors, fonts and logos. Of course, there are also those who haven’t thought about this issue, who may not want to be bothered with it (as this takes ample time and thought) and who expect us to suggest, advise and guide. This is where we should know and focus on current trends, put our personal priorities on the backseat, and design something fresh, modern and appealing where we are absolutely “Trendwise with Semiomantics XO2012″, which is currently going through a testing phase and will soon be released.

Most importantly, we need to think forward to adapt to the incredible developments and momentum on the mobile web: can people see our web design work on their iphones, smart phones and tablets? This is currently the driving power behind many decisions and as we want our customers to get the traffic and results they expect, this is what we need to focus on and ensure that they too see the advantages of certain essentials they might not initially agree with.

It’s all about functionality and thinking customerwise: let them see what your website is all about fast and in an attractive way, make navigation clear, quick and easy like a dynamic show. And let there be balance!

Trendwise with Semiomantics XO2012

With the new trends 2012 having been set, how can we at Web Design South Africa be trendwise with Semiomantics XO2012, the best WordPress based script to be released soon, and give our website or blog a New Look 2012?

How to give your Author Blog a Trend 2012 Look

Here are a few pointers as to how to give your Author Blog a Trend 2012 Look:

1. Color Trend 2012

I already wrote about the Color Trend 2012 HERE.

To repeat it quickly, the color of the year 2012 is a warm orangy red called “Tangerine Tango”.  It’s not too far off the color I am always using in my personal color scheme that marks “Web Design with Passion”. However, there are other trendy colors like ‘solar power’ and the ‘sodalite blue’ I used in my example above, in connection with ‘tangerine tango’.

Here you want to think of backgrounds, fonts, menu, graphics, links, hover effects etc. – however, don’t overdo it when setting it off against another shade or complementary color. What I learned in Typography many years ago with one of Europe’s two leading authorities in the field and a true friend, Professor Tuenn Konerding (Staatliche Kunstakademie Duesseldorf, Germany), still applies today: experiment massively… but then reduce, keep it simple, don’t use more than 2… maximum 3 colors.

I wish I had a better photo – but I am happy I can call at least this one up – for an extraordinary mind and spirit that left our planet far too early…

Interesting also the trend towards one-page websites and a comeback of the magazine theme (full layout Semiomantics XO). Of course, Apple-style layouts are still en vogue as they are a modern classic and simply good.

2.  Typography 2012

The focus is on bold letters and custom fonts that can easily be read on mobile phones. Interesting here the Google Font Library that can be added in form of a plugin and loads fast while making the look of the website more appealing.

Textures, shades and reflections are ‘in’ as well…

 3. Large High Quality Images

Less text but large, high quality images – meaning all forms of sophisticated Media Design – be it photos, graphics, videos… – especially for backgrounds but also for graphics, sliders (we will come to these) and whatever you integrate into your Website Design to attract and captivate.The use of light or shadow boxes – where pictures can be enlarged in an overlay-  is very much in the trend.

Actually, we have been ahead of this trend with Semiomantics XO 2011 already, and particularly with our comprehensive work on Evolution, my personal favorite… yet unfortunately on Flash which is currently not seen on mobile phones due to power plays between the ‘big boyz’ … but this too shall change one day once even they get it that ‘competition’ is out and ‘cooperation’ is in to save our planet – and this is NOT a trend but a Truth! Ask Steve on Cloud!

Meanwhile Evolution will… well, evolve!

4. Sliders are en vogue

And yet another feature where Semiomantics has been well ahead of the trend: sliders are en vogue! Besides that, in my view they are brilliant, practical, interactive, attractive, seen on the mobile web and add to the functionality of a website. At tleast the ones we use – they do come at a cost, but it’s well worth it – quality always had its price!

5. Connect to Social Networks

Finally, websites and blogs need to offer easy ways – meant are rather ‘loud’ icons (… I leave this to your personal taste…) – to interlink and connect to Social Networks like Twitter, Facebook, Google + etc. Today, people look out where they can connect, follow, share and register … and so the cybernet expands continuously and I sometimes wonder what all of this really means at the end of the day and for our environment! But that’s a topic for another day!

For now… let’s be aware of current trends and advise customers accordingly… there’s lots to play with!

WordPress 2.9 on Semiomantics

WordPress 2.9 has been released just a few hours ago. This post details the impact of this most recent update on Semiomantics Scripts.

What’s new in WordPress 2.9 – Server Requirements

The first big change concerns server requirements:

WordPress 2.9 Requires MySQL 4.1.2 or greater (old requirement was 4.0).

Semiomantics Consulting

WP 2.9 User Features

*  Trash status for posts, pages, and comments (includes restore and permanent delete)
* Add support for ‘include’ and ‘exclude’ to (Gallery Shortcode)
* Allow user registration to be enabled by an XMLRPC client
* Add support for sticky posts to the WXR exporter and importer
* ‘rel=canonical’ for singular pages
* Scroll back to the same location after saving a file in the Plugin and Theme editors
* Correct comments and remove unnecessary echos from the default themes sidebar template file
* Enable the APP (Atom) attachment file download to work correctly
* Support location of category templates based on ‘category-slug’ as well as ‘category-id’ (Ticket 10614)
* Support location of tag templates based on ‘tag-id’ as well as ‘tag-slug’ (Ticket 10868)
* Support location of page templates based on ‘page-slug’ and ‘page-id’
* Set “Allow my blog to appear in search engines” to checked in installation
* Don’t offer to make a category its own parent
* Remove Sphere from search list
* Minify admin CSS
* Show correct max upload filesize error message
* Add ‘rel’ attribute to next/previous post links
* Make the default and classic themes comment textareas valid XHTML
* Clean up ‘.button’ and ‘.button[disabled]‘ CSS classes, add ’spinner’ and ‘gray-out’ buttons after clicking Publish or Update post
* Fix race condition with autosave when clicking Publish immediately after entering post title
* Add Comments for Pages in the WordPress Default theme
* Define ‘$content_width’ for Kubrick
* Better feedback on publishing of future posts and pages
* Display comments in descending date order, consistently
* Add means of automatically repairing tables
* Press This bookmarklet fixes
* Give plugins and themes simple control over the text displayed at the end of an autogenerated Excerpt
* Don’t show “Change Permalinks” button when editing the page set as “Front page”
* Image editing
* Retire BunnyTags importer
* Retire Jerome’s keywords importer
* Explain that the permalink is temporary for autosave generated permalinks
* Update SimplePie to 1.2
* Eliminate the redundant and confusing comment threading depth of 1
* Easier Embeds with oEmbed support (see Ticket #10337) (oEmbed discovery disabled by default, use plugin to enable it)
* TinyMCE 3.2.7
* Remove rel=’tag’ on links in Tag Clouds
* Add a title to the Home link output by wp_page_menu()
* Adjust comment moderation keyboard shortcut keys ‘d = trash’ or delete depending on the screen
* Show “Draft updated” instead of “Post updated” when saving draft
* Show the login form in a popup when autosave hits the login grace period
* Open View/Preview post in a new window from the link in the Saved/Updated message
* Separate fields for ‘image alt’ and ‘image caption’ in Media uploader
* Display better information about broken themes when there is no stylesheet
* Improve situation when tables such as wp_options table were ‘corrupt’ new installation message was offered. Add means of automatically repairing tables
* Export and import custom taxonomies
* Admin copy improvements
* Don’t show page templates in the drop down if they are in a subdirectory
* Make codex link open in a new window
* Change ‘Remove’ link on widgets to ‘Delete’ because it doesn’t just remove it, it deletes the settings for that widget instance.

WP 2.9 Development, Themes, Plug-ins

* Added ‘excerpt_more’ filter to wp_trim_excerpt() function, which allow developers to change excerpt ‘[...]‘ more string (Ticket 10395)
* Add ’smilies_src’ filter so plugins can better add smilies
* Canonical redirects for post name queries
* Allow _wp_get_comment_list() to handle custom comment types
* Return an empty array instead of false for get_children() when no children found
* Add some filters so that HTTP requests can be filtered
* Move plugin update notice output to the plugin specific hook
* Limit wp-mail ‘blog by email’ checks to every 5 minutes
* Make it much easier to filter contact methods from user profiles
* Allow filtering of get_edit_post_link for custom post_type
* ‘get_sample_permalink_html’ filter
* Enforce activation key to be a string, reject activation keys that are arrays
* Support for new post types
* Respect custom post_type in queries
* Send Retry-After header when in maintenance mode
* Various WP Filesystem related fixes and documentation
* Add constants for ftp connections timeouts
* Increase timeout on cron-based requests when checking for upgrades
* Don’t use has_action() before do_action() in http.php
* Speed up jQuery based scripts
* Use the current user as author for autosave
* Show My Posts as default view on the Edit Posts screen for users without ‘edit_others_posts’ cap
* Ensure that drafts viewed over XMLRPC have a correct gmt date set
* Pass user id to ‘get_’ the_author_meta filters
* Move _wp_get_user_contactmethods() into the registrations functions file
* Machine parseable db error codes
* Add global JS vars and actions to the media uploader iframe
* Add JSON compat for PHP < 5.2
* Make option_name the primary key for the options table
* Allow a plugin to do a complete takeover of Post by Email
* Logarithmic scale for tag cloud
* Pass Post ID to the ‘get_comments_number’ filter
* Always filter the url in the media upload form
* Add a ‘the_terms’ filter
* is_blog_installed() improvements
* Allow force_ssl_admin() to properly accept false as a value
* Pass logged_in cookie to async-upload and filter the cookie scheme in auth_redirect()
* Add more actions around database add/delete/update operations
* phpDoc for wp_”check|set”_post_lock functions
* Use the old strings which are more translator friendly and add a generic default string to aid re-use by plugins adding post_types
* Filter fields through kses upon display and introduce sanitize_user_object() and sanitize_user_field()
* Use null instead of 0 when setting content length
* Include ‘hidden’ directories in filesystem dirlist by default
* Pass args array to ‘wp_list_pages’ filter
* Actions for taxonomy updates
* Key should be ‘comment_id’ not ‘post_id’ in comments table
* Add get_delete_post_link () to retrieve delete posts link for post
* Add ’separator’ parameter to wp_tag_cloud() and wp_generate_tag_cloud() functions (Ticket 10315)
* Added add_comment_meta() family of functions
* Use a post_parent of 0 instead of -1 to indicate unattached posts
* Improve get_page_hierarchy() function
* Deprecate the_content_rss(), add the_content_feed() and get_the_content_feed(). Convert places that called the_content_rss() with an excerpt length to the_excerpt_rss(). Remove the rss_excerpt_length option. Use the_content_feed() where the_content() was previously used in feeds.
* Add ‘pad_counts’ argument to wp_dropdown_categories()
* Remove codepress
* Remove the php-gettext library
* Canonical post thumbanils
* Add a filter to the_author_posts_link()
* Merge post.js with page.js and slug.js, optimize categories and tags JS, standardize postboxes IDs and JS
* Introduce register_theme_directory() which takes a wp-content-relative path and will additionally scan it for themes. Plugins can use this to add themes without requiring copying by the user
* Add set_user_role action hook
* Allow theme devs to change attrs (like CSS class) of thumbnail images
* Add wp-post-image CSS class to post images
* Allow for plugins to enhance the number of metadata fields captured from plugin and theme headers
* Merge updated pomo code
* Switch to using NOOP_Translations for untranslated sites
* Improve wptexturize performance
* Provide context to the strings in the Plugin and Theme installers to allow for different grammatical gender
* Fixes for theme subdir support
* Introduce wp_kses_post() and wp_kses_data() for filtering unescaped data
* Add ‘orderby=comment_count’ argument to query_posts()
* Honor Post Type for Sticky Posts
* Allow querying multiple post types
* Introduce add_theme_support(feature) and current_theme_supports(feature) for announcing and checking theme support for various features
* Introduce require_if_theme_supports()
* Add number of Embed related filters
* Add ‘IMAGE_EDIT_OVERWRITE’ constant to control edited image save or replace, most useful for setups that have dynamic image resizing
* Add load_child_theme_textdomain() to allow child themes to have their own translation files
* Add sidebar descriptions to sidebar settings and widget admin screen
* Make option_id primary. Add uniques for option_name and autoload
* Allow plugins to override the behaviour of load_textdomain() in a variety of flexible ways
* Mark _c() as deprecated. The new _x() function should be used instead.
* Allow plugins to change the redirect on post/page publishing/submitting
* Standardize on ‘user_id’ instead of ‘user_ID’ when passing comment data. Accept either ‘user_id’ or ‘user_ID’. Remove ‘user_id’ global.
* Filter imported comments
* Introducing set_post_image_size(w, h, crop) so themes can register their special size/crop for canonical post images
* Standardize around “post image” instead of “post thumbnail”
* Allow registering post image support per post type
* Return false from is_paged() if on the first page.
* Check MySQL and PHP versions when auto upgrading
* Add required php and mysql versions to version.php
* Hard code required version in update-core.php

Semiomantics Themes

All Semiomantics Themes will run on the WP 2.9 backbone. You will not notice any visual or visible difference except if you are hosted on outdated MySQL software; in such a case we recommend to either not update or to move the blog to a host fulfilling the appropriate server requirements. (See above: Server Requirements -  our Suggestion remains ChiHosters).

The new version of WordPress allows for better handling of child themes where available.

Semiomantics Performance

The WP 2.9 version provides new options for optimization and modifies some of the features we have overwritten in the past for optimized performance. Also, as some of the hooks for plugins have changed, which will allow us to enhance our performance with special add-on scripts.

The Semiomantics semantic SEO engine 5.2 will replace the present version 5.1 on high performance customer sites.

Semiomantics script updates will be available shortly; please observe our next few posts where we will detail the upgrades.

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics. If you enjoyed reading the above, please consider following future tips and strategies by RSS reader, Email delivery, or Kindle subscription.

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WordPress 2.9 on Semiomantics

WordPress 2.9 has been released just a few hours ago. This post details the impact of this most recent update on Semiomantics Scripts.

What’s new in WordPress 2.9 – Server Requirements

The first big change concerns server requirements:

WordPress 2.9 Requires MySQL 4.1.2 or greater (old requirement was 4.0).

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Semiomantics Consulting

WP 2.9 User Features

*  Trash status for posts, pages, and comments (includes restore and permanent delete)
* Add support for ‘include’ and ‘exclude’ to (Gallery Shortcode)
* Allow user registration to be enabled by an XMLRPC client
* Add support for sticky posts to the WXR exporter and importer
* ‘rel=canonical’ for singular pages
* Scroll back to the same location after saving a file in the Plugin and Theme editors
* Correct comments and remove unnecessary echos from the default themes sidebar template file
* Enable the APP (Atom) attachment file download to work correctly
* Support location of category templates based on ‘category-slug’ as well as ‘category-id’ (Ticket 10614)
* Support location of tag templates based on ‘tag-id’ as well as ‘tag-slug’ (Ticket 10868)
* Support location of page templates based on ‘page-slug’ and ‘page-id’
* Set “Allow my blog to appear in search engines” to checked in installation
* Don’t offer to make a category its own parent
* Remove Sphere from search list
* Minify admin CSS
* Show correct max upload filesize error message
* Add ‘rel’ attribute to next/previous post links
* Make the default and classic themes comment textareas valid XHTML
* Clean up ‘.button’ and ‘.button[disabled]‘ CSS classes, add ’spinner’ and ‘gray-out’ buttons after clicking Publish or Update post
* Fix race condition with autosave when clicking Publish immediately after entering post title
* Add Comments for Pages in the WordPress Default theme
* Define ‘$content_width’ for Kubrick
* Better feedback on publishing of future posts and pages
* Display comments in descending date order, consistently
* Add means of automatically repairing tables
* Press This bookmarklet fixes
* Give plugins and themes simple control over the text displayed at the end of an autogenerated Excerpt
* Don’t show “Change Permalinks” button when editing the page set as “Front page”
* Image editing
* Retire BunnyTags importer
* Retire Jerome’s keywords importer
* Explain that the permalink is temporary for autosave generated permalinks
* Update SimplePie to 1.2
* Eliminate the redundant and confusing comment threading depth of 1
* Easier Embeds with oEmbed support (see Ticket #10337) (oEmbed discovery disabled by default, use plugin to enable it)
* TinyMCE 3.2.7
* Remove rel=’tag’ on links in Tag Clouds
* Add a title to the Home link output by wp_page_menu()
* Adjust comment moderation keyboard shortcut keys ‘d = trash’ or delete depending on the screen
* Show “Draft updated” instead of “Post updated” when saving draft
* Show the login form in a popup when autosave hits the login grace period
* Open View/Preview post in a new window from the link in the Saved/Updated message
* Separate fields for ‘image alt’ and ‘image caption’ in Media uploader
* Display better information about broken themes when there is no stylesheet
* Improve situation when tables such as wp_options table were ‘corrupt’ new installation message was offered. Add means of automatically repairing tables
* Export and import custom taxonomies
* Admin copy improvements
* Don’t show page templates in the drop down if they are in a subdirectory
* Make codex link open in a new window
* Change ‘Remove’ link on widgets to ‘Delete’ because it doesn’t just remove it, it deletes the settings for that widget instance.

WP 2.9 Development, Themes, Plug-ins

* Added ‘excerpt_more’ filter to wp_trim_excerpt() function, which allow developers to change excerpt ‘[...]‘ more string (Ticket 10395)
* Add ’smilies_src’ filter so plugins can better add smilies
* Canonical redirects for post name queries
* Allow _wp_get_comment_list() to handle custom comment types
* Return an empty array instead of false for get_children() when no children found
* Add some filters so that HTTP requests can be filtered
* Move plugin update notice output to the plugin specific hook
* Limit wp-mail ‘blog by email’ checks to every 5 minutes
* Make it much easier to filter contact methods from user profiles
* Allow filtering of get_edit_post_link for custom post_type
* ‘get_sample_permalink_html’ filter
* Enforce activation key to be a string, reject activation keys that are arrays
* Support for new post types
* Respect custom post_type in queries
* Send Retry-After header when in maintenance mode
* Various WP Filesystem related fixes and documentation
* Add constants for ftp connections timeouts
* Increase timeout on cron-based requests when checking for upgrades
* Don’t use has_action() before do_action() in http.php
* Speed up jQuery based scripts
* Use the current user as author for autosave
* Show My Posts as default view on the Edit Posts screen for users without ‘edit_others_posts’ cap
* Ensure that drafts viewed over XMLRPC have a correct gmt date set
* Pass user id to ‘get_’ the_author_meta filters
* Move _wp_get_user_contactmethods() into the registrations functions file
* Machine parseable db error codes
* Add global JS vars and actions to the media uploader iframe
* Add JSON compat for PHP < 5.2
* Make option_name the primary key for the options table
* Allow a plugin to do a complete takeover of Post by Email
* Logarithmic scale for tag cloud
* Pass Post ID to the ‘get_comments_number’ filter
* Always filter the url in the media upload form
* Add a ‘the_terms’ filter
* is_blog_installed() improvements
* Allow force_ssl_admin() to properly accept false as a value
* Pass logged_in cookie to async-upload and filter the cookie scheme in auth_redirect()
* Add more actions around database add/delete/update operations
* phpDoc for wp_”check|set”_post_lock functions
* Use the old strings which are more translator friendly and add a generic default string to aid re-use by plugins adding post_types
* Filter fields through kses upon display and introduce sanitize_user_object() and sanitize_user_field()
* Use null instead of 0 when setting content length
* Include ‘hidden’ directories in filesystem dirlist by default
* Pass args array to ‘wp_list_pages’ filter
* Actions for taxonomy updates
* Key should be ‘comment_id’ not ‘post_id’ in comments table
* Add get_delete_post_link () to retrieve delete posts link for post
* Add ’separator’ parameter to wp_tag_cloud() and wp_generate_tag_cloud() functions (Ticket 10315)
* Added add_comment_meta() family of functions
* Use a post_parent of 0 instead of -1 to indicate unattached posts
* Improve get_page_hierarchy() function
* Deprecate the_content_rss(), add the_content_feed() and get_the_content_feed(). Convert places that called the_content_rss() with an excerpt length to the_excerpt_rss(). Remove the rss_excerpt_length option. Use the_content_feed() where the_content() was previously used in feeds.
* Add ‘pad_counts’ argument to wp_dropdown_categories()
* Remove codepress
* Remove the php-gettext library
* Canonical post thumbanils
* Add a filter to the_author_posts_link()
* Merge post.js with page.js and slug.js, optimize categories and tags JS, standardize postboxes IDs and JS
* Introduce register_theme_directory() which takes a wp-content-relative path and will additionally scan it for themes. Plugins can use this to add themes without requiring copying by the user
* Add set_user_role action hook
* Allow theme devs to change attrs (like CSS class) of thumbnail images
* Add wp-post-image CSS class to post images
* Allow for plugins to enhance the number of metadata fields captured from plugin and theme headers
* Merge updated pomo code
* Switch to using NOOP_Translations for untranslated sites
* Improve wptexturize performance
* Provide context to the strings in the Plugin and Theme installers to allow for different grammatical gender
* Fixes for theme subdir support
* Introduce wp_kses_post() and wp_kses_data() for filtering unescaped data
* Add ‘orderby=comment_count’ argument to query_posts()
* Honor Post Type for Sticky Posts
* Allow querying multiple post types
* Introduce add_theme_support(feature) and current_theme_supports(feature) for announcing and checking theme support for various features
* Introduce require_if_theme_supports()
* Add number of Embed related filters
* Add ‘IMAGE_EDIT_OVERWRITE’ constant to control edited image save or replace, most useful for setups that have dynamic image resizing
* Add load_child_theme_textdomain() to allow child themes to have their own translation files
* Add sidebar descriptions to sidebar settings and widget admin screen
* Make option_id primary. Add uniques for option_name and autoload
* Allow plugins to override the behaviour of load_textdomain() in a variety of flexible ways
* Mark _c() as deprecated. The new _x() function should be used instead.
* Allow plugins to change the redirect on post/page publishing/submitting
* Standardize on ‘user_id’ instead of ‘user_ID’ when passing comment data. Accept either ‘user_id’ or ‘user_ID’. Remove ‘user_id’ global.
* Filter imported comments
* Introducing set_post_image_size(w, h, crop) so themes can register their special size/crop for canonical post images
* Standardize around “post image” instead of “post thumbnail”
* Allow registering post image support per post type
* Return false from is_paged() if on the first page.
* Check MySQL and PHP versions when auto upgrading
* Add required php and mysql versions to version.php
* Hard code required version in update-core.php

Semiomantics Themes

All Semiomantics Themes will run on the WP 2.9 backbone. You will not notice any visual or visible difference except if you are hosted on outdated MySQL software; in such a case we recommend to either not update or to move the blog to a host fulfilling the appropriate server requirements. (See above: Server Requirements -  our Suggestion remains ChiHosters).

The new version of WordPress allows for better handling of child themes where available.

Semiomantics Performance

The WP 2.9 version provides new options for optimization and modifies some of the features we have overwritten in the past for optimized performance. Also, as some of the hooks for plugins have changed, which will allow us to enhance our performance with special add-on scripts.

The Semiomantics semantic SEO engine 5.2 will replace the present version 5.1 on high performance customer sites.

Semiomantics script updates will be available shortly; please observe our next few posts where we will detail the upgrades.

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Cape Town Christmas on Google

Loyal to our regular monitoring of the SEO performance of our WordPress based Semiomantics websites and blogs – our own as well as those of our valued customers – , I am extremely pleased to see an excellent Google ranking of my article “Cape Town Christmas Gift Fair 2011″ right on the brand-new Monkey Valley Resort Website! The website was basically released today!

Click on the screenshot to see it bigger…

Cape Town Christmas on Google

You will see that “Cape Town Gift Fair 2011″ ranks on positions 4, 5 and 6 on Google Top 10 – the place everybody interested in that keyword area is competing for… here on 2,300,000 search returns!

Save Money with a Semiomantics Website

How does this demonstrate how you can save money with a Semiomantics Website?

Well, the fight on the Internet highway is for a Google Top 10 position – either on the left side (see screenshot above), where there are 10 positions for super sexy websites and blogs that make it to the top – or on top (yellow area) and to the right where people spend continuously increasing daily budgets for Google Ads… simply to be visible when someone types this keyword string into the Google search engine.

Marketing with Google Adsense means being dependent short-term, medium-term and long-term as prices increase all the time… and to be efficient – meaning to get the traffic and visitors that might lead to eventual sales – one has to be visible 24/7/365… and that has its price. Don’t think you can get away with $50… there are keywords that cost more than that per single click. And this without any guarantees in terms of sales. Ever.

Whereas with a Semiomantics Website you invest once in a good Script, setup and Design… and you see top performance. Sure, you need to do your bit and publish regular good content… but that’s part of your online marketing anyway if you are selling anything – be it a product, a service or ad space – but at least here you can count on results…

So do your maths and contact us anytime when you are ready to do a Semiomantics online – on Google Top 10 that is!

Noordhoek Christmas Gift Fair 2011

Exciting and brand-new in the larger Cape Town area – namely the South Peninsular – is the Noordhoek Christmas Gift Fair 2011 that awaits visitors at Monkey Valley Beach Nature Resort – just 30 km out of the Mother City on the slopes of Chapman’s Peak. Just follow the signs to Noordhoek Beach… you can also check it under MAP on the menu on the new WEBSITE that I am handing over on Monday – that is tomorrow – as the Website Development has been completed!

Christmas Fair 2011 Photos

These are a few Christmas Fair 2011 Photos of day two (Saturday) … a glorious day… very well organized and with many smiling people. Especially children had a ball in the vast playgrounds while their parents enjoyed the beautifully presented shopping items or a drink on the deck at Thorfynn’s Restaurant with LIVE Music and the most stunning golden sunset.

CLICK HERE or on the Christmas Gift Fair 2011 Photo above to see a few impressions.

Noordhoek Christmas Gift Fair 2011

The Noordhoek Christmas Gift Fair 2011 in Monkey Valley Resort invites you and your family and friends to visit us on Sunday (last day).

Everybody are doing their best to provide you with a beautiful shopping experience in the true spirit of Christmas… be it directly under the old milkwood forest… in the ravine which is Cape Town’s secret tip as a Wedding Venue… in our famous Conferencing Center “TreeTops” or the “Lapa” area – both inside and outside… you will just love it!

Enjoy a relaxed and joyful day in our romantic venue under old milkwood trees with a private access to Noordhoek Beach… everything is being cared for to make YOU feel good in true Christmas Spirit!

Personalized Wedding Websites on Google

While our positioning on Google is certainly not a main priority when it comes to designing Personalized Wedding Websites, I am working on Semiomantics XO and it’s just in my virtual blood – and part of my daily routine – to observe and monitor my results on Google.

Personalized Wedding Websites on Google

And again – and this within minutes – a smashing result of being ranked on positions 5 and 6 on Google Top 10 – ahead of 20,5 million search returns:

Click on the screenshot above and you see it in the enlarged version for better reading.

Wedding Websites Ranking

Obviously, and as you can see from the amount of Google ads being placed on top and on the side of the Google Top 10 page and beyond, there is strong competition on the Wedding Websites ranking – and this means constant movement as new posts come in and join the race to the top of Google.

I am pleased to see that – even though this was sort of my first article in this particular project – the article is still ranked on spot 5! Brilliant performance on Google!

Weddings at Monkey Valley Resort

It’s not the first time I’ve been working on Weddings as a theme… and its naturally one I like as there’s such a special flair around this whole event in a couple’s life. . . ideally melting two individuals into ONE. One wants to add to the happiness and the promise of this new beginning…

To see a beautiful wedding venue outside Cape Town, South Africa, CLICK HERE.

Time for a quick check-up as to the performance of our current website development “Monkey Valley Resort”… here specifically as to how my article earlier today on the South African Band “Hot Water” ranks on Google.

Hot Water on Google

As you can see on the above screenshot, my article on Hot Water is on Google Top 10 right away… and this on 14 million search returns! That’s what I call cool – and it’s Semiomantics, what else?

Jokes aside, this is indeed a fantastic SEO performance – and here I am not talking about my own performance but that of  Monkey Valley Resort – the new website I am still completing! Seeing it grabbing positions 3 and 4 on Google Top 10 within just a few minutes just makes my heart smile!  Results like these – especially where my customers are concerned – give me the daily kick to continue these sometimes really not easy and very strenuous and time-consuming tasks, especially on terribly slow connections these days and a computer that’s running regularly out of memory… I will have to live with this for a small while still… but can’t wait to upgrade… drastically that is!

Besides, I was told that as per mid 2012 we may have optic fibre cables in South Africa and connections comparable to Europe… they’re as far as Nigeria… and we are at the far tip of the continent. So there’s hope and more on that in another post :)

One of the last finishing touches for the brand-new website for Monkey Valley Resort will be the integration of a Booking Button by SiteMinder to put the reservation of Accommodation and Conferencing on automatic.

Booking Button for Monkey Valley Resort

Once the Booking Button for Monkey Valley Resort has been integrated and a few other issues on my list are resolved, the website will be officially handed over… of course together with a walkthrough for the person responsible for new posts and a tutorial (part of which has already been delivered)… At that time, the first slide – which correctly announces the current website development on Semiomantics XO which stands for Excellence in Online Publishing – will be eliminated.

The ideal date would be the 11th November 2011 when the book “Brave Green Kids” by Judy Sole, Leader of the Green Party in South Africa, will be officially launched at the “Crowned Eagle” at Monkey Valley Resort!

As I am busy with the finishing touches of the new Monkey Valley Resort website, here’s the Event category that shows you where you can have the Best Cape Town Christmas Day Lunch! Just scroll down and have a look at the information Darren Byrne has put out for you. And note that kids pay much less and under 3 they pay nothing! Click on the image here; it will take you there directly.

Best Cape Town Christmas Day Lunch

I think I took this stunning sunset photo about a year ago during the festive holiday season… and these are the real colors, no filters, no changes… the Atlantic Ocean is pure liquid gold!

This is what you see from the famous Treetops Deck when sipping your drinks and those decadent cocktails… listening to the surf and dreaming!

Now that you know where to get the best Cape Town Christmas Day Lunch for the whole family, make sure you book in time as this is a rather private and secluded place, no mass tourism anywhere near it! Your kids can play while you keep an eye on them and why not go for a walk on the pristine beach? You never know who you meet :)

Searches on Google Top 10 is and so far remains the main driving power on the Internet in terms of  being visible and being found as per our Online Marketing efforts. As such, we have to monitor the performance of our websites, blogs and articles on a regular basis.

Here’s the example of a post I did a few days ago with the title:

Best Conferences out of Cape Town

Now, “Best Conferences out of Cape Town” went to Google Top 10 within 0.23 seconds… proof as per screenshot. Position One of over 43 million search returns.

Meanwhile, we had our monthly online Seminar by Ycademy with a focus on “Social Media Marketing” – no time to look left, right or center… not the way we zoomed through Social Networks the like of Facebook, Twitter, Empire Avenue, Google+, Flickr and more… all being or becoming an important integral part of our online marketing strategy… and giving us down here in the boonies with absolutely lousy Internet connections a hell of a hard time.

However, this morning I went to have a look and – lo and behold – we even improved the ranks by adding position 2 to it… plus another on Google Top 10 – which is amazing and the dream – and essential focus – of any hotel or institution within the highly competitive Tourism and Travel Industry within South Africa. Have a look yourself!

Cape Town Best Conference Venue

While we are still busy working on the brand-new main website, check out Monkey Valley Resort as Cape Town’s Best Conference Venue HERE. Enjoy the virtual journey!

Searches on Google Top 10 is and so far remains the main driving power on the Internet in terms of  being visible and being found as per our Online Marketing efforts. As such, we have to monitor the performance of our websites, blogs and articles on a regular basis.

Here’s the example of a post I did a few days ago with the title:

Best Conferences out of Cape Town

Now, “Best Conferences out of Cape Town” went to Google Top 10 within 0.23 seconds… proof as per screenshot. Position One of over 43 million search returns.

Meanwhile, we had our monthly online Seminar by Ycademy with a focus on “Social Media Marketing” – no time to look left, right or center… not the way we zoomed through Social Networks the like of Facebook, Twitter, Empire Avenue, Google+, Flickr and more… all being or becoming an important integral part of our online marketing strategy… and giving us down here in the boonies with absolutely lousy Internet connections a hell of a hard time.

However, this morning I went to have a look and – lo and behold – we even improved the ranks by adding position 2 to it… plus another on Google Top 10 – which is amazing and the dream – and essential focus – of any hotel or institution within the highly competitive Tourism and Travel Industry within South Africa. Have a look yourself!

Cape Town Best Conference Venue

While we are still busy working on the brand-new main website, check out Monkey Valley Resort as Cape Town’s Best Conference Venue HERE. Enjoy the virtual journey!

A few minutes ago, I posted my article on “2011 E-Tourism Africa Summit” HERE. While this article is already on Google Top 10, what interested me here was the performance of my Chapter on “PayPal and E-Tourism Africa” on Google. Let’s have a look – just click the screenshot to see it in a bigger version:

PayPal and E-Tourism Africa on Google

PayPal and E-Tourism Africa on Google shows a major ranking result: position one of 48,300,000 search returns – within 24 seconds!

YEBO! Welcome to the Formula One on the Internet!

That’s Web Design South Africa – fast, visible, efficient and mega attractive! Oh yes: and it’s affordable too – which means Fun and along the principles of “Ubuntu”!

Just talk to me – details on my CONTACT or NAME tab!

Love and Psychic Readings seem to be intertwined when it comes to looking at the full panoply of human relationships – and even beyond. As mirrored in each novel, screenplay, piece of theatre, song, opera and even within each major achievement in history – real, profound Love is what we humans long for most… and perhaps what many fear most… and then, once attained, apparently play with and lose so easily instead of cultivating and consistently nurturing it to grow, expand and envelop everything with its unique radience and energy.

Uncertainty, doubt and fear arising from us living in our shell and clinging to the illusion of Separatedness on the chaotic stage of life often calls for urgent answers, independent reflection and strict yet caring guidance – that’s where the psychic reader, an astrologer or a qualified therapist enter as representatives of the soul – reminding the soul of itself, its roots in eternal Consciousness where ‘self’ has no beginning and no end… and where with the right intention all answers can be found.

That’s what the chapter “Love” in Psychic Readings Online – the relatively new Website by Psychic Delia O’Riordan is all about. If this topic is of interest to you – either as you seek some personal advice or its your own professional field of interest and you consider setting up a new attractive and Google efficient website that can easily be accessed via the Mobile Web -, I urge you to check it out.

Love and Psychic Readings Online on Google

Love and Psychic Readings are in high demand in terms of keywords and, loyal to our constant monitoring of the performance of our Semiomantics Web Design, I just checked what Psychic Delia’s “Love and Psychic Readings Online” did on Google… and again I am delighted to see how Delia O’Riordan grabbed positions 1 and 2 on Google Top 10 – ahead of 14,200,000 search returns and tons of Google Ads! And this with a new blog… It’s just amazing!

How fast can I be on Google with my new Blog?

Clearly, the answer to “How fast can I be on Google with my new Blog?” depends on choosing a smart WP based Semiomantics Script and having it fully set up and customized by a Semiomantics Web Design  expert – which includes a thorough tutorial and patient guidance until the goal is reached, namely Google Top 10!

Congratulations Delia O’Riordan – also on top of her own name now, Google Number One – YEBO!

Relevant Online Marketing Seminars like those offered by Ycademy since 2004 are in high demand by people who want to build a successful business online or bring their offline business to the Internet.

Following my article on How to do Online Marketing on Friday, here is some feedback with my personal conclusions from the first day of this astonishingly clear, quite complex yet efficient and hands-on Ycademy Workshop that provided each Seminar participant with a relevant Email Marketing setup on their WordPress based Author Blog on Semiomantics XO.

The above photo was taken at the V & A Waterfront in Cape Town, South Africa – a traditional Marketing eldorado of its kind!

Relevant Online Marketing Seminars

What emerged as a key element from the first day of this relevant Online Marketing Seminar by Ycademy was that today online marketing has to be “relevant” and “contextual”. These two words have to be remembered, specifically when focusing on Email Marketing and the integration of Emailing with Newsletters and/or Autoresponders into one’s CMS, eg. Author Blog.

With our high performing Semiomantics websites and blogs this is no easy task to start with.

It needs careful thought and weighing of what is needed versus what’s not needed and a close look at what serves our purpose best: free or paid solutions? On the surface, it looks like concessions will have to be made between the mailer and our website optimization… however, that’s obviously not what we at Ycademy will settle with!

Relevant Emailing

Relevant Emailing in a smart and contextual form is what the Ycademy Brainwave came up with despite some rather frustrating research into various unsatisfactory avenues. Relevant Email Marketing in a way that’s modern, permission-based, contextual and far beyond the batch and blast approach of the old days.

With all of us thoroughly fed up with the clutter still reaching our mail boxes despite spam filters, we need to know that this is only around 20% of the spam that actually goes out – and this still seems to serve a certain market… an indicator that even that still works.

However, for the marketing professional in today’s economic climate everything turns around customer retention – and emailing is a powerful way of keeping in touch, communicating and ensuring growth through customer retention. We all learned that it is more cost-efficient to work on retaining an existing customer than winning over a new one.

Bearing this in mind, we move away from large broadcast campaigns to more targeted engagements. However, delivering that relevance requires more sophistication and here the challenge is to invest in the analysis of response and behavior data in order to assist us in directing our marketing strategies in the most beneficial ways – beneficial for us on one hand to avoid losing our time and efforts and risking spam complaints and optouts – as well as for the customer who may well be interested in receiving hot information on the red sunlasses we offer but not the green bikinis we sell in a different chapter. This needs to be realized and attended to accordingly. This is what relevance and context in terms of reaching out to our readers and customers is all about. That we give them what they want without throwing anything else at them. Graceful Service with the right Attitude in my eyes. Just as an example.

Looking at our website publications – eg. Author Blogs – it appears that the Email channel is a natural extension to distribute and monetize content – however, it needs a customized approach and it needs a soft approach to ensure that our mails get delivered and… opened… and maybe even passed on.

Therefore, our goal as publishers must always be to deliver a relevant, contextual and personalized quality experience that our readers and customers enjoy!

How do we achieve this?

Ycademy Seminar on Online Marketing

While day 1 of the Ycademy Seminar on Online Marketing provided the conceptual understanding, the basic setup and the tools, day 2 (today) will complete this important chapter in order to not only serve our own purpose in terms of promoting our own products and services, however, for those of us who focus on customer satisfaction when it comes to Web Design and Customer Follow-up, to offer our customers a maximum of value and safety in firstly reaching out and staying in close contact with their customers with their highly search engine optimized WP based Semiomantics CMS.

I am looking forward to a highly informative Workshop at the Ycademy Seminar today.

WordPress Marketing – with a focus on Email Marketing and Affiliate Marketing – is the theme of this month’s Ycademy Seminar, starting this coming Saturday at 1 pm London and ending on Sunday, around 10 pm London. All seminar participants will learn how to turn their WordPress CMS – namely their Semiomantics Author Blog – into a powerful Marketing machine.

WordPress Marketing

Having developed our own Semiomantics Product and built – over a number of years – the Semiomantics XO Publishing Framework with its strong emphasis on SEO and high visibility on Google Top 10, it’s time to get back to Online Marketing, especially WordPress Marketing, based on our WP based and powered themes.

To this day, Email Marketing is highly efficient, but it needs the right knowhow and skills to be used in the correct form, from individual emailing to landing pages with double optins to Autoresponders, Newsletters etc … and for all of this the right tools and the right etiquette to avoid spam complaints and IP blacklisting.

Affiliate Marketing is and has always been successful and is, in my view, “… the marketing way of the net”: help me market my product and get a commission on each sale. As simple as that. However, there are important issue to be considered to ensure a safe link tracking especially when it comes to automated link promotion. As many members on the Ycademy network promote Affiliate Links – be it from Amazon or Autopart dealers – this needs to be addressed in the right way. Last but not least, we all have our own shop and products to sell – so yet another important and interesting issue to address and integrate in a smart and efficient way.

As usual, the weekend Seminar risks not having sufficient hours in the day :)

Why WordPress Semiomantics is the Best Theme

Within the context of WordPress Marketing we have always monitored the performance of our articles on search engines, especially Google, and here only Google Top 10 counts – as who has time to look any further?

As such, my screenshots serve to proove the performance of our WordPress based Semiomantics CMS and, as we see below from yesterday’s article results, it’s quite clear why WordPress Semiomantics is the best theme:

WordPress Marketing on a WP based Semiomantics CMS is the most cost-efficient way of bringing your product or service to a maximum number of peoples’ attention in terms of Website Publishing – fast and reliable. We show it every day – and so do our customers on their brand-new CMS. It’s really the smart and economic way to go!

When starting out on the Internet the question is always: which CMS should I use for my Website or Blog?

This was what Delia O’Riordan – known as Psychic Delia – asked herself when deciding to take her Psychic Consultancy Online. Getting into “blogging” and Website Publishing on a Mac had its tricky and frustrating moments, however, looking back on her very first month online Delia knows why WordPress Semiomantics is the Best theme… and that she could not have made a better and more cost-effective choice, besides saving tons of money on Google Ads!

Why WordPress Semiomantics is the Best Theme

Today, Delia O’Riordan has her own proof as to why WordPress Semiomantics is the Best Theme… seeing her own articles and posts reaching Google Top 10 positions and bringing her the Traffic she needs to build her online business and get new readers, subscribers and potential customers.

Having designed Delia’s CMS, I keep monitoring her performance on Google… not always, but just to make sure she keeps on track and everything moves forward according to concept, execution and plan. So I looked at her 3 recent posts and checked their performance on Google… and WOW! look for yourself and see the results! Amazing… and this after just a mere month!

We often hear that it’s so ‘normal’ for us who have been around since a while to get high positions on search engines… but that a beginner would barely come near that. Yes and no… it depends – and as you see, Delia O’Riordan made the right decision in terms of choosing a WordPress based Semiomantics Script with expert Custom Web Design… then she received the right guidance and instructions… a lot of help and support… and now she’s spreading her wings and flying high on the Internet highway – Congratulations Delia!

Yesterday, we presented our new Photo Blog on what we believe is the best WP Photo Blog Theme by Semiomantics… today we show the result of our post… scoring Google Top 10 on 38,200,000 search returns – rank 4 on Google to be exact!

Best WP Photo Blog Theme on Google

Photo Blogs or Online Photo Albums are meant to deliver a visual experience, it’s about the look, the black & white photography or color photos set within an elegant yet practical and user-friendly framework.

Depending on the purpose of the Photo website, however, the website optimization in terms of search engines like Google is just as important.

Let me explain:

If you set up a photo album for your family and friends and that’s more or less ‘it’ – then you are not really interested in attracting other people, strangers, people you can’t relate to. To the contrary: you want to keep this rather “within the family” – although real privacy is impossible on the Internet as we know, but we know what I mean.

If your Photo Blog is more and/or serves a commercial purpose, then you want to be found. Of course, there are always people punching in your website as they know you and appreciate your Artwork, however, you want to attract those who do not yet know you… and this is where SEO – Search Engine Optimization – comes in, meaning, that you want to be found on Google Top 10 under a specific keyword of your choice. If for instance you do the best pink flamingo photos on the planet, then you need to be found on Google Top 10 for anyone punching “pink flamingos” into Google. Once that person is on your site, you want to assure you captivate his senses and keep him as long as possible savoring your work and possibly becoming your client.

The point is that your focus must be to have a website that is optimized to compete on Google top ranking positions… and that guarantee you can expect to have with a WordPress based Semiomantics Script – ideally combined with Semiomantics Web Design.

As you see by the mere publication of this article: Semiomantics says what it sets out to achieve, then prooves that it indeed delivers – just as you see on the screenshot here! The proof is in the screenshot – it could be your’s on any keyword of your choice!

Welcome to the best WP Photo Blog Theme by Semiomantics – here I just added an introductory Welcome slide for everyone who’s passionate about digital photography and wants to know how to display their photos online – yet not in a social network environment but where everything is under one’s own control as it should be!

Best WP Photo Blog Theme by Semiomantics

Since its inception just 10 days ago, my Photo Blog on the Best WP Photo Blog Theme by Semiomantics shows good results on Google.

Contrary to creating a rather static Photography Website, my intention was to have something more dynamic as Digital Photography is part of my life and most definitely crucial to my Media Design in terms of Semiomantics Web Design. Accordingly, I write quite often about it – be it to accompany some exciting photos or when doing Adobe Photoshop Tutorials based on own photo material – just as an example. So let there be life!

While all photos displayed exist as high quality originals in 4000 x 3000 format as they come out of my NIKON Coolpix P90, I display them in different shades, tints and even shapes as the originals were either used in some original work that already went public, or they are in my Stock Photography Collection. I also experiment with all sorts of frames and combinations in OnOne Professional Tools that allow photos to stand out and capture peoples’ attention.

This being said, I believe that a really good photo needs absolutely nothing – just a background to stand on… black, white or grey – that’s it. Perhaps a tiny legend underneath… fine, elegant, non-intrusive.

Less is more.

But here we work with the photo tools we have at our disposal.

The purpose of this Photo Blog is to really show the beauty and versatility of Semiomantics Web Design which allows anyone to combine the look with high performance on search engines… meaning to be found. This is critically important for any photography professional – but also for anyone having something to offer, to promote or to sell.

If the concept catches your attention and resonnates, please contact me to discuss your needs and reveal the best of your creative potential online.