Hooks are a great way to easily modify the theme code without changing the actual source code. In this article we present a few useful hooks available to you in the GavernWP Framework.

We are happy to announce the release of the latest version – 3.8/2.15 – of our tremendously useful Gavern Framework. This version includes several fixes for particular templates, but also few new features. Note that all of our templates have been updated to Joomla 2.5.9/3.0.2 and support version 2.6.5 of K2, the latest release available at this time.

Some WordPress plugins use custom post fields [http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Custom_Fields] to store data associated with specific posts. This is a good way, but if you want to display your own Custom Post Fields under your post, this method can cause problems with the display of unnecessary data.

When you share a website URL on your Facebook wall, Web crawlers will inevitably visit this website to get some specific information about the linked page, such as title, text and image.

Do you find yourself needing to store temporary or cache data for your widgets or themes? Use the Transient API – it is by far the best way to quickly and effectively implement your storage needs.

The process of creating a WordPress theme is quite complex. For that reason, many useful extensions have been created to made a website developer’s work much easier. This tip presents a few WordPress plugins we find to be particularly useful.

The GavernWP framework supports a mechanism for predefined widget styles. This mechanism is used to create new styles for a tag cloud widget. Using it, you can achieve two different layouts without changing a single line of CSS code!

WordPress includes a powerful mechanism for saving and storing copies of blog posts, protecting authors from the potential loss of entire content entries. Such losses may be caused by a sudden browser failure or a problem at the operating system level. This WP mechanism also allows older blog entries to be compared with newer versions.

Generally, the frontpage of every WordPress blog presents a list of the latest posts to the blog. Some themes, however, will instead allow different content to be displayed to create a so – called custom frontpage. The GavernWP framework also provides such a mechanism. Using it, instead of displaying blog posts, it is possible to enable the display of widgets from the mainbody position.

It’s high time for us to summarize our activities taken in the previous year. In short, it was a good year, especially because of the fact that we succeeded with opening a WordPress themes club after one year preparations. It was a great challenge for as as we had to prepare a framework for creating WP themes but we did it.