When textbox is focused you can do three things:

1. Do nothing. Let the user to delete all text. Not good for lazy people, right?
2. Autoclear box. But if user want only to change a letter (typo) or add another word, then he should re-type all things. Not good for usability.
3. Autoselect box content. Is just like the user double clicks on the text. How can you do this? Read further to see

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var initValue;
$(document).ready(function(){
$(':text').each(function(){
	$(this).focus(function(){
		initValue = $(this).attr('value');
		$(this).select();
	});
	$(this).blur(function(){
		if($(this).val() == ''){
			$(this).val(initValue);
		}
	});
});
});

What is the best thing with this? Well… If an user just leave the text box blank, that form is auto filled with previous value.

Pretty nice, huh? Well… I think is pretty useful too

As i said, there is two version of theme: free and premium. Read below to see the differences.

Preview:

Free theme :

• You have to edit all files to make some changes. For ads you need to edit files from ads folder. For index settings you need to change index.php
  • For featured slider: find

    < ?php $my_query = new WP_Query('tag=featured&showposts=3');

    featured - enter tag slug and how many slides you want

  • For small excerpts find:

    $my_query = new WP_Query('category_name=economy&showposts=3');

    Change category_name according to your category slug

• Images is added width custom fields with 130×130px for index and 200×150px for inner slider
• Plugin settings
• Print This
• Email this
• Excerpt length: 150

Download here.

What about premium version?

When you purchase the premium version you will have:

• Technical support
• Install/configure wordpress theme and plugins
• Small changes of theme (colours, sizes, etc)
• Admin panel for theme
• RSS for each category
  • mail: slice [@] iamntz. [] com
  • y!messenger: i0nutzb
  • skype: i0nutzb

The price for premium theme is $50 and for more details you can contact me here:

For now i don’t have an automatic way for purchasing, but i will reply you ASAP.

The simple but efficient answer is this:

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$(document).ready(function(){
$('<div id="busy">Loading...</div>')
        .ajaxStart(function() {$(this).show();})
        .ajaxStop(function() {$(this).hide();})
        .appendTo('body');
});

And that’s all. You need to do this only once.

Ofcourse, you can apply some CSS styles to #busy div, using an image generated with ajaxload or something similar.

I didn’t use any other libraries (actually i used prototype with scriptaculous sometime like AGES ago), but i think all cool libraries (like jQuery) have similar methods.

Another great news: with MORE than 50 fixes (but no new features tough) jQuery UI 1.5.1 is out.

The return of get_tags() function was some kind of array but, because of my skills (not) in PHP i spend WAY too much time to go figure what to do. The initial result of get_tags() function is:

Array
(
    [0] => stdClass Object
        (
            [term_id] => 28
            [name] => Featured
            [slug] => featured
            [term_group] => 0
            [term_taxonomy_id] => 29
            [taxonomy] => post_tag
            [description] =>
            [parent] => 0
            [count] => 6
        )
)

And i only needed [name] and [slug]. Ofcourse, like a smart guy that i am, i pointed my browser on wordpress codex where i found… NOTHING. Nothing about this function… Great. Let’s try various stuff and google it for any ideas. And i found a PHP function get_object_vars for easy conversion. After this, all was GREAT. I use it like this:

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$allTags = get_tags();
foreach($allTags as $thisTags) {
		$thisTag = get_object_vars($thisTags);
		echo '<option value="'.$thisTag['slug'].'">'.$thisTag['name'].'</option>\n';
}

And it WORKS like a charm. I posted this thing because i didn’t found too much references for stdClass Object or get_tags() Wordpress function.

Anyway, it’s a theme great for using in a news site, fixed width, two sidebars, using custom fields and various plugins.

Here is a preview of current progress:

I think will be done by the end of this week, when i will release both free and premium version of the theme.

Stay tuned for more.

Some of the main features:

• Widgetizable;
• Xhtml 1.1 / CSS 2.1 Valid;
• 2 columns;
• trackbacks and pingbacks are separated from comments;
• and more things that you can discover if you try this great and free wordpress theme

You can download the teme HERE.

But wait! There is more nice things to come! More free wordpres theme to come and if you want a premium theme, don’t wait and contact me.

Even if I’m a jQuery addicted, I saw that MooTools have smoother animation, but their documentaion is weird (or maybe is just me, I don’t know). Anyway, in the last half year, I told myself to try Moo, but every time I give up. Maybe I will try it sometime.

I finished my first free wordpress theme. What it make it so special? Well… The theme is with two and with three column: if you don’t have widgets on a sidebar, that sidebar is hidden and content is stretched. Nice, huh?
Anyway, you can download the theme with a single CLICK. If you (don’t) like it or if you have a problem, let me know.

Enjoy

Edit:

For now i can’t put a functional demo. But you can see the screenshot i put it yesterday here.

Today i want to tell you something about progress:

Theme name: Weekend. I made a quick search on google, i didn’t find any theme with this name so… 

Theme status: 90%. I’m stuck on dynamic sidebars but is nothing serious; Also, the whole theme is CSS 2.1 & XHTML 1.0 strict valid. You know that is for freaks, right?

Launch ETA: few hours, up to one day. This is mean one thing: tomorrow you can download the Weekend Theme!

Stay tuned!

Anyways, here is a sneak preview of my first theme:

What do you think?
ps: some extra nice features will be also available (you can pick how many sidebars you will use and also their positions - top/bottom/right/left ). Just stay close