Eric Martin - The blog, projects and photography of Eric Martin

SimpleModal 1.3.2 is now available for download.

In case you are wondering, 1.3.1 was used in the demos but never officially released. The demos have been updated as well.

A number a container dimension fixes were added as well as a new option, autoPosition, which can be used to turn off auto positioning of the container upon creation and window re-size. I also shortened many internal variables to help reduce file-size. Hopefully it doesn't hurt the readability.

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Since I'm not planning on carving another WordPress pumpkin this year, I thought I'd create some desktop wallpapers of the pumpkin I carved last year for WordPress fans to show their holiday spirit.

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Having used jQuery and WordPress together on a number of plugins and themes, I thought I'd share some tips that I have learned. The following are 5 clear, concise, and relevant tips that you should know when using jQuery in your WordPress Theme or Plugin.

1. Use wp_enqueue_script()

The traditional way to include jQuery in an HTML page is with the script tag. When working with WordPress, you should *never* do this. To avoid conflicts and other potential problems, you'll want to load jQuery using the following code:

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After releasing the pagination function for WordPress code, I decided to make it easier to use by creating an official WordPress Plugin.

So, I'd like to introduce WP-Paginate, a simple and flexible pagination plugin which provides users with better navigation for your WordPress site.

If you have any feedback or issues, please let me know!

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The September 2009 issue of JSMag is now available and I'm happy to announce that one of my photos was selected for the cover.

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The way WordPress handles post pages is to provide links to the previous posts and next posts, using previous_posts_link() and next_posts_link() respectively. When redesigning my site, I wanted to paginate the post pages to provide users with a more usable, intuitive interface.

While there are a number of WordPress plugins that enable pagination, I chose to write my own. I wanted a something that was flexible enough to be used in a number of different situations, but most of all I wanted the experience and challenge of writing my own pagination function.

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SimpleModal Contact Form (SMCF) 1.2.4 includes the following changes:

• Upgraded SimpleModal to 1.3
• Fixed the bug that was supposed to be fixed in SMCF 1.2.3 ;)
• Moved the JavaScript loading to the WordPress init() function
• Optimized smcf.js variables to reduce file-size
• Moved close (X) link HTML from smcf.php to smcf.js (the SimpleModal closeHTML option)

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After months of design changes and WordPress theme customizations, I'm happy to introduce the latest version of EricMMartin.com!

I've actually been working on this redesign, on again, off again, for the last year or so. Although the design has been through a number of changes, the technologies I wanted to build the site with have remained the same: WordPress and jQuery.

So, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the new design - please leave a comment. If you didn't see the previous version, here's a screenshot of what it looked like:

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