The Envato Marketplace Items plugin retrieves items from an Envato Marketplace and API set of your choice, then caches those results in your WordPress database before finally displaying the results as an image gallery of 80px square thumbnails. You can view examples of what the plugin does by checking out the sidebar of any Envato Marketplace blog and look at the Popular Files section. A quick note, the code for those sections is in the functions.php and it is not currently using this new plugin, but they are basically the same code just less option oriented since we only need them to use one API set and not pull ...

Creattica Daily has gotten a pretty sweet makeover, not that it wasn't already awesome. Collis (CEO of Envato) was itching to try out a new larger 1200px wide design, and one that will pretty much update and maintain itself without the need to post daily roundups or cost tons of cash since the site has not been very profitable. Don't worry though, the Creative License comic will still be going strong for all who enjoy some good clean humor. As well, there will continue to be plenty of content to sink your teeth into, it will just be pulled from various sources around the web vs. manual submission.

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I recently added an updated version of the is_page_or_sub() function now called is_page_or_ancestor() to the plugins directory over at WordPress.org. The new version of the function is a recursive test to see if the page ID or name you pass into the function is actually the current page or one of its ancestors. Basically you can test to see if you are viewing an ancestor of the About page and if so execute some code (i.e. change a pages class or id). I use this function on my site and pretty much on every other site I've ever built. However, the only different is this new code is leaner and will test ...

Here is another great WordPress function to test if you are in a subcategory or the actual parent category and if so return true. This function is pretty much identical in concept to the is_page_or_sub() function I released previously. However, it just tests categories and not pages. Also, the code is significantly different since there are a few more available pre existing function we can build upon here. For example, the cat_is_ancestor_of() function comes in really handy and does a lot of the heavy lifting for this simple but very powerful function. I use this very function to build complex category based navigation and ...