A few people have been asking about the expandable lists I have in the sidebar, so I thought I’d share how I did this. The effect is actually quite easy to achieve and uses some simple JavaScript to change the CSS display property of the element containing the list. However, there are a few things to note.
inFocus Social Media Icons
These instructions are only applicable for versions of inFocus up to and including v1.6
WebTreats have recently released a set of Social Media Icons for all 10 of the inFocus theme colours and provided instructions on how to include them in the sidebar.
Anyone who’s tried this has no doubt noticed that on switching the inFocus theme colour the social media icons in the sidebar may not match the new chosen theme colour. Well, no big deal really. But if you want the icons to match whichever inFocus theme colour you choose, try this.
inFocus WP Theme: Customising WP-PostViews and Efficient Related Posts Plugins
These instructions are only applicable for versions of inFocus up to and including v1.6
UPDATE 21st March 10: My apologies to anyone who’s previously implemented this change and noticed when viewing their blog in Safari for Mac, and possibly Windows, that the display of related and popular posts was being overlaid with subsequent page elements. This was due to using <div class=”clearboth” /> instead of <div class=”clearboth”></div>. The incorrect code was included in the WP-PostViews Template and the Efficient Related Posts’ file efficient-related-posts.php. All 3 references in this post have now been corrected.
Since switching to WordPress I’ve been using the WP-PostViews and Efficient Related Posts plugins. Although the inFocus theme I use now comes with its own popular posts and related posts widgets I much prefer the functionality of the aforementioned plugins.
For example, WP-PostViews displays popular posts based on post views whereas the inFocus version uses the number of comments to determine a post’s popularity. And while there appears to be little if any difference in how Efficient Related Posts and the inFocus version determine related posts, the latter does so on-the-fly whereas the former pre-determines them, thus reducing the load on the server.
A Problem with Read More Link URLs and Webtreats inFocus WordPress Theme: Solved
These instructions are only applicable for versions of inFocus up to and including v1.6
Just last week I posted my solution for allowing users of the WebTreats inFocus theme for WordPress to choose how post excerpts are displayed. I am of course using this solution on my site. Yesterday I noticed some rather odd-looking URLs associated with a couple of the Read More links on my blog.
